It is an unpleasant subject, but it is not unimportant.(While We're At It)(state of Turkey's patriarchate)

It is an unpleasant subject, but it is not unimportant. I have commented before on the way Bartholomew I, patriarch of Constantinople, has in recent years been touring the West pandering to eco-sophists and global-warmists of varieties from the wrongheadedly sane to the downright kooky. In such circles he is celebrated as the "Green Patriarch." Now he has a book from Random House, Encountering the Mystery: Perennial Values of the Orthodox Church, which, writes Charlotte Allen in the Wall Street Journal, majors not in spiritual mysteries but in lefty platitudes.

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