Reflections on life, meaning and purpose

Putin has alienated Ukraine’s powerful Orthodox community. The importance of this development should not be underestimated…..

Ukraine is a mostly Orthodox nation (albeit with a heavy Byzantine Catholic presence, particularly in the west). But the Orthodox Church there has been split since the country gained its independence, with a newly autocephalous (that is, self-governing) Ukrainian Orthodox Church (OCU) to rival the larger faction affiliated with the Moscow Patriarchate (UOC-MP)…