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In this episode of Holy Smoke, Archbishop Nikitas of Thyateira and Great Britain, leader of Britain\u2019s Greek Orthodox, defends sacred Christian tradition with a robustness I\u2019ve never heard from a native British bishop.\xa0\n
\nThe Florida-born Nikitas has exhilarating and controversial things to say on all sorts of topics: the Western Churches\u2019 cosy relationship with secularism, the devastating civil war between Moscow and Constantinople, and the essence of Orthodox mysticism.\xa0\n
\nNeedless to say, I couldn\u2019t resist asking the Archbishop what he makes of Pope Francis\u2019s grim persecution of Latin Mass Catholics. Nikitas is generally a fan of Francis \u2013 but I doubt that the Vatican will be reassured by his wise and candid comments on this topic.\xa0\n