2008-06-19
The 'Pope' of Hope. By Riazat Butt, London Guardian, June 18, 2008. "His All Holiness, Bartholomew I, Archbishop of Constantinople, New Rome and Ecumenical Patriarch, is the spiritual leader of 300 million Orthodox Christians and 270th successor to the Apostle Andrew. He is also extremely green, taking heads of church and state to areas beset with environmental problems -- the Amazon and Arctic among them -- and confronting them with the best science… The 68-year-old archbishop... is modest about his achievements, which, through the annual environmental symposia attended by the great and the good, include pressuring Brazilian soya traders into declaring a moratorium on crops from newly deforested land in the Amazon, and lobbying the Albanian government to clean up toxic waste dumped in Porto Romano on the Adriatic coast... Human economy, he explains, wastes and discards, while natural economy is cyclical and replenishes, and God's economy is compassionate and nurturing."
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