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Russian-Ukrainian Crisis Spotlights Tenuous Rome-Moscow Relationship

Adalberto RoquePope Francis and Patriarch Kirill, the leader of the Russian Orthodox Church, greet each other during a historic meeting in Havana on Feb. 12, 2016.

COMMENTARY: The current tensions bring to a head the same issues that were present in 2014, when Pope Francis refused to criticize Putin’s aggression.