The Ecumenical Patriarchate and human life

The AOI has a hard hitting editorial on Constantinople's rather laissez faire attitude on abortion on the one side and the "grand super-governmental, trans-national solutions" direction the Ecumenical Patriarchate is backing. I highly recommend reading and reflection. It is interesting to note that at the same time the AOI has brought this issue to the forefront, the Moscow Patriarchate has, over the last year in particular, made several unequivocally pro-life statements through it's External Church Relations department, in talks with Rome aimed at working together to defend the family, and from its bishops in interviews available online. Moscow is, of course, not alone. The OCA in the person of Met. Jonah has made made his stance clear as has the Antiochian archdiocese.

Reading Andrew Estocin’s fine essay, “Constantinople’s Moral Oversight,” I was reminded once again of the long running institutional silence — a scandal really — from the Greek Orthodox Archdiocese on sanctity of life issues. But that attitude of indifference comes down from the top — the Phanar.

Here is a direct quotation from a July 20, 1990, article, “SF Shows Off Its Ecumenical Spirit,” in the San Francisco Chronicle. Metropolitan Bartholomais of Chalcedon is the current Ecumenical Patriarch Bartholomew...

Complete article here.