Russian Reset Required in Rome

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Russian President Vladimir Putin and Orthodox Patriarch Kirill attend a National Unity Day ceremony at the monument to Minin and Pozharsky in Moscow’s Red Square on Nov. 4, 2024.

COMMENTARY: As Russian troops ravaged Ukraine, Patriarch Kirill called the invasion ‘a metaphysical battle against the forces of evil’ — a claim that now demands a Vatican reexamination of its ecumenical strategy.