Pope Meets with Greek Catholic Abp. in Hungary; Tells Pope Church of Christ Has 2 Lungs, East and West

 When Pope Francis met with Hungarian Greek Catholics yesterday -- members of a Ukraine-based Eastern church in communication with Rome -- the community's leading prelate said its members have shed their blood for the faith and want to be a bridge between Eastern and Western Catholicism, the Crux website  reports today (April  30, 2023).

Speaking  at the Mother of God Greek Catholic Church  in Budapest, Metropolitan Archbishop  Fulop Kocsis of the Byzantine Eparchy of Hajdudorog told Pope Francis that he is "beloved by all of us."

"From Pope John Paul II we learned the important truth that the Church of Christ breathes with two lungs, the spirit of the East and the spirit of the West, which together make up the living mystical body," he said.