Posted on 07/07/2018 3:48:37 PM PDT by marshmallow
His Holiness Patriarch Irinej of Serbia has expressed the view that now is not the right time for a Papal visit to Serbia.
His comment comes in an interview with Blic, reflecting on his recent meeting with Vatican Secretary of State Cardinal Pietro Parolin. During the meeting, Pat. Irinej expressed gratitude for the official position of the Vatican, which has not recognized the independence of the southern Serbian province of Kosovo and Metohija.
Pat. Irinej notes in the interview that he did not speak about the possibility of a Papal visit with the Cardinal during their meeting, but that he had spoken on the matter earlier in the year, and he still holds the same view, that “because of all that has happened in the past, and the great number of refugees from Croatia, the majority of the people are against it.”
Talk of a Papal visit to Serbia has been ongoing since 2005, but it has yet to come to fruition.
The Serbian Church also earlier expressed the opinion that Pope Francis should first go honor the victims of the Ustaše Jasenovac concentration camp before coming to Serbia, reports the Union of Orthodox Journalists. Jasenovac was a death camp for Serbs, Jews, and Roma, run during the Second World War by the Nazi-allied Independent State of Croatia (NDH).
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call it the Putin effect. Serbia is heavily pro-Kremlin and therefore pro-Moscow patriarchate wing of the Orthodox Church.
Not that Pope Francis is the greatest, but still this behavior on the part of Serbia is downright primitive.
hope Catholic Croatia wins the World Cup.
I’d call it the Ustashi and so forth effect but nice try
Hell yeah
Serbia has fought our enemies an eff lot more than we have
And we’re pretty damn ungrateful in our politically correct stupor
“I’d call it the Ustashi and so forth effect but nice try”
The Catholic Croatian Ustasche, who were affiliated with the Austrian fascists, murdered several hundred thousand Orthodox Serbians during WWII. Memories are long in that part of the world.
Sarajevo is in Bosnia, not Serbia. The assassin and the others who plotted the assassination were Bosnians (mostly but not all of the Serbian Orthodox faith).
My fam and I are Serb supporters and cognizant of history
The issue is that Serbia is pro-Serb.
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