AOCNA’s North American bishops with Metropolitan PHILIP on Friday, 24 April:
And with Patriarch IGNATIUS on 2 June 2009:
It’s tempting to want to use the contrast between Bps. BASIL and ANTOUN as the barometer…
How much should we read into these pictures?
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Leitourgeia kai Qurbana: Contra den Zeitgeist 
I don’t think it takes a thousand words to get the story.
That was the first thing I noticed today when the photo was posted…I then looked up the older one to confirm my suspicions. Still who really knows…only time will tell and it could still be a lot of time… oh boy!
If we had the power to look into the hearts of these men, perhaps we could make a fair judgment. Since we cannot do such and externals do not necessarily reflect internals, they pretty much are equal at this point. 🙂