00 04/12/2010 23:42



A droplet from Wikileaks

The Italian media are reporting that the latest Wikileaks document dump of US State Department internal correspondence included 852 cables about the Vatican. Apparently, the most interesting so far, after the initial disclosures of the US government's almost laughable 'inside information' about the 2005 Conclave, is the following:

«Confidential» Cablegram 000932
From: William J. Burns
US Representative in Russia

... reporting on a meeting with Metropolitan Kyrill in 2008 before he became Patriarch of Moscow and all Russia (in January 2009):
Kirill seemed to be in good health and concerned about the excessive - from his point of view - emphasis on the individual in the West.

As he has done in previous conversations, Kirill contrasted favorably the Catholic Pope Benedict (sic) with his predecessor John Paul II, and expressed the hope for a significant improvement of relations between Russian Orthodoxy and the Catholic Church.
The rest of the cable notes that Kirill reiterated his opposition to the independence of Kosovo, and his concerns about dangers to Orthodox faithful of Slavic origin. [Danger from whom???]
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