PopeWatch: Unlikely

The world always needs Mother Mary but especially now.  Mr. Kipling do the honors please:

Ah, Mary pierced with sorrow,
Remember, reach and save
The soul that comes to-morrow
Before the God that gave!
Since each was born of woman,
For each at utter need—
True comrade and true foeman—
Madonna, intercede!

Unfortunately PopeWatch thinks the Pope will do nothing.  Per Sandro Magister:

In February of 2016 Francis and Kirill met in Havana using the secular protocol of heads of state, in the transit area of the airport, without any moment of prayer, without a blessing. Only a private conversation and the signing of a joint declaration completely biased toward Moscow’s side and immediately taken by the Ukrainian Greek-Catholics, by the archbishop of Kyiv himself, and even by the new nuncio Claudio Gugerotti as a “betrayal” and “indirect support for Russian aggression against Ukraine.”

Two years later, in 2018, when a new Orthodox Church was about to be born in Ukraine, independent of the patriarchate of Moscow and viewed as a plague by this but favorably by the Greek-Catholics, once again Francis chose to be more on the side of Kirill and – receiving at the Vatican a delegation of the Russian patriarchate chaired by its powerful foreign minister, Metropolitan Hilarion of Volokolamsk – he launched into a harangue against the Greek-Catholic “Uniates,” whom he ordered “not to interfere in internal affairs of the Russian Orthodox Church.” The complete text of the pope’s remarks, which were supposed to remain confidential, was finally made public after the patriarchate of Moscow, approvingly, brought forward the passages most in its favor.

Today the entire Orthodox world is in a dramatic crisis precisely on account of what is happening in Ukraine, where the new Church independent of Moscow has received the canonical recognition of the ecumenical patriarchate of Constantinople, of the Churches of Greece and Cyprus, and of the patriarchate of Alexandria and all Africa. But precisely for this reason Moscow has broken off Eucharistic communion with all these Churches.

In this schism that divides Orthodoxy, the patriarchate of Moscow is even working to submit Africa to its own jurisdiction, removing it from the patriarchate of Alexandria. It is therefore unthinkable that it would passively accept the loss of Ukraine, which is just what it sees happening.

In a book-length interview on the history of Christianity in Ukraine, the Greek-Catholic archbishop Shevchuk dreams of the rebirth in his country of a single patriarchate of all Christians, Orthodox and Catholic. The dream is not historically groundless, far from it. But what reigns in Rome is uncertainty, if not bewilderment, to the point that one does not even dare to speak the names of those carrying out armed attack on Ukraine, political and religious.

Go here to read the rest.  Selling out Catholics is the true stock in trade of this pontificate.