Joint Counsel Cancelled

The Eastern Orthodox Church has scuttled its up-coming joint counsel, which has been in the planning for 55 years. Why?

The reason a number of churches, including those of Russia and Constantinople, have decided to withdraw is because their Ecumenical Patriarch of Constantinople, Bartholomew I, is considered to be too closely aligned with the policies of the current Roman Pope.

A number of the churches have taken issue with Bartholomew’s leftward drift toward Pope Francis's style social justice and environmentalism as well as his seeming support of Islam over Christianity.