Pope to Consecrate Russia and Ukraine to Immaculate Heart of Mary

WILL PAGAN CATHOLICISM WORK THROUGH MARY'S INTERCESSION? NOT LIKELY!

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By Philip Pullella 

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Pope Francis will consecrate Russia and Ukraine to the Immaculate Heart of Mary on Friday during the Celebration of Penance that he will preside over in St Peter's Basilica, the Vatican announced Wednesday.

The Director of the Holy See Press Office, Matteo Bruni, said in a statement: “The same act, on the same day, will be performed in Fatima by Cardinal Konrad Krajewski, papal almoner, who is being sent there by the Pope."

The day of the Feast of the Annunciation of the Lord was chosen for the consecration.

The news was greeted with joy by Catholic leaders in both Ukraine and Russia.

“This is a spiritual act long-awaited by the people of Ukraine," said  Major Archbishop Sviatoslav Shevchuk, the head of the Ukrainian Greek Catholic Church. "Since the beginning of Russian aggression in 2014, Ukrainian Catholics have been urgently requesting this Act to prevent the worsening of the war and the dangers coming from Russia.”

The Archbishop of Lviv, Mieczysław Mokrzycki, also gave thanks for the consecration.

“In 1917, Our Lady of Fatima said that, in order to stop the war and the persecution of the Church, we must pray and consecrate Russia to her Heart and also take Communion on the first five Saturdays of the month,” he said.

Earlier Wednesday, Patriarch Kirill of the Russian Orthodox Church and Pope Francis discussed the war in Ukraine. It was the first known contact between the two religious leaders since the conflict began.

The Moscow Patriarchy said in a statement that the two discussed the "humanitarian aspects of the ongoing crisis" and the importance of pursuing peace talks.

They also discussed "what actions the Russian Orthodox and the Roman Catholic churches could take to overcome its consequences," the Russian side said.

In its readout of the conversation, which took place in a video call, the Vatican said the pope told Kirill: "The ones who pay the price of war are the people, the Russian soldiers and the people who are bombarded and die."

Kirill, 75, a close ally of Russian President Vladimir Putin, has made statements defending Moscow's actions in Ukraine and sees the war as a bulwark against a West he considers decadent, particularly over the acceptance of homosexuality.

At his general audience earlier on Wednesday, Francis evoked the specter of a nuclear war, where whoever is left of humanity would have to start all over again on "the day after," and appeared to ask God to stop the aggressor in Ukraine.

Metropolitan (Archbishop) Hilarion of the Russian Orthodox Church's external affairs office and Cardinal Kurt Koch, head of the Vatican Council for Christian Unity, also took part in the conversation, both statements said.

On Wednesday evening, the Vatican's number two, Secretary of State Cardinal Pietro Parolin, said a Mass for peace in Ukraine in St. Peter's Basilica attended by both the Ukrainian and Russian ambassadors to the Vatican.