Whoever on this board said "popes never critcize other popes publicly" is
pretty much eating crow now.
What's
really rude is not that the Pope waited 800 years finally to take mitre in hand and apologize --- after all, he's a very busy man --- but that the Patriarch waited
a full three years to accept the apology. I'm sure the Pope was on pins and needles.
I say it takes a really withered nutsack holding some balls of solid brass to apologize for an medieval act of war. Have the Huns apologized? The Visigoths? There's no precedent for this. I say, "kudos," unless that means "double anal" in Polish.
