Pa Meyi 7, mutu waku Russia wa Worldwide Union of Old Believers (Okhulupirira akale ndi Akhristu a Eastern Orthodox omwe amasunga miyambo yachipembedzo ndi miyambo ya Tchalitchi cha Orthodox cha Russia monga momwe analili asanasinthe Patriarch Nikon waku Moscow pakati pa 1652 ndi 1666) Leonid Sevastianov. adalandira kalata yolemba pamanja kuchokera kwa Papa Francis.
Kalatayo inapitanso kwa Svetlana Kasyan, woimba wotchuka wa ku Russia komanso mkazi wa Leonid. Papa anawathokoza chifukwa cha “maganizo awo a mtendere” ndipo anawonjezera kuti “ife Akristu tiyenera kukhala akazembe a mtendere, ochita mtendere, olalikira mtendere, okhala mwamtendere.”
Atsogoleri awiri achipembedzo Leonid ndi Francis amadziwana bwino, ndipo n'zoonekeratu kuti womalizayo amapeza khutu laubwenzi ndi woyamba kusiyana ndi Patriarch of Moscow Kirill, mu nthawi za nkhondo. Kirill wakhala akugwiritsa ntchito udindo wake kuthandiza mabodza a Kremlin olungamitsa nkhondo ku Ukraine, pomwe Leonid Sevastianov, yemwe akukhalabe ku Moscow, wanena molimba mtima kuti Kirill anali wolakwa kwambiri, ndipo nkhondoyo inali yokayikitsa: "Sitikudziwa chifukwa chake nkhondoyi: pazifukwa ziti. ? Zolinga zanji?” adatero, osapewa mawuwa ngakhale kuti lamulo la Russia likuletsa kugwiritsa ntchito mawu oti "nkhondo" polankhula za kuukira kwa Ukraine ndi asitikali aku Russia. Ndipo ponena za Kirill: "Zoganiza zikanakhala kuti Isitala ikhale mphindi yaumunthu, osati yandale. Koma zomwe Kirill adanena zikuwonetsa zosiyana. Ndipo amaimira mpatuko.”
Awa ndi mawu amphamvu omwe amafanana ndi a Francis Corriere della Sera atalankhula ndi Kirill: "Makolo akale sangathe kudzisintha kukhala mnyamata wa guwa la Putin."
Francis nayenso ndi wokonda kwambiri Svetlana Kasyan, ndipo posachedwapa anamasulidwa album yake yoyamba yekha yomwe adayitcha "Fratelli Tutti", polemekeza zolemba za Papa zomwe zidasindikizidwa chaka chapitacho. Mutu ndi lingaliro la chimbale, lolunjika ku mtendere wapadziko lonse pakati pa anthu a dziko lililonse ndi chikhulupiriro chirichonse, zinali zaulosi: pali kufunikira kochuluka kuposa kale lonse kumvetsetsa, chikondi chochuluka, ubale wochuluka. Umenewunso ndi uthenga wa Sevastianov, uthenga womwe angakonde kuufikitsa kwa atsogoleri andale a dziko lomwe akukhala.
Miyezi yapitayi, Kirill adatsutsidwa ndi mazana a atsogoleri ndi ansembe a Orthodox padziko lonse lapansi, komanso ku Russia, ngakhale pali chiopsezo kuti aliyense wotsutsa nkhondoyo ndi omwe amamuteteza amatenga. M'tsogolomu, izi zikadzatha, zikhoza kuchitika kuti Tchalitchi cha Orthodox cha ku Russia chidzataya mphamvu zake ngakhale ku Russia, ndipo ndani amadziwa amene angapeze utsogoleri wauzimu. M'malo mwake, atha kukhala wina aliyense kupatula utsogoleri wapano wa Tchalitchi cha Russian Orthodox, chomwe chadzilowetsa kale m'ndale ndi kutenthetsa.
