That he does, but you would never have guessed that from the Encyclical. My quarrel is not with St. John but with the misrepresentation of the patristic teaching therein.
“That he does, but you would never have guessed that from the Encyclical.”
But Alex, the Eastern Patriarchs were, to their way of thinking, and truth be told I mostly agree with them, addressing a power mad heretic and schismatic, a true ravening wolf, preaching some new gospel and loose in the fold of the Faithful. Why would they want to encourage the presumption of Rome with a misinterpretation of +John to the effect that the successors (as it is alleged) of +Peter, the popes of Rome were some sort of Son of God and as for +Cyril, well that curmudgeon praised the Pope and groveled at his feet about as much as he excoriated him. +Cyril has absolutely no credibility at all when it comes to the papacy.