Dear bishops,
the Byzantine Patriarchate appealed to the current Pope Francis to declare the year 2015 as the year of a true reform of the Church. The letter “2015 – year of the reform of the Catholic Church”(http://vkpatriarhat.org.ua/en/?p=9585) points out that the blame for the disastrous state of the Church lies above all with the Polish Pope John Paul II, and You build statues in memory of him and rename streets and squares in irrational euphoria, and, to all appearances, You will even dedicate new churches to him!
Salvation is intrinsically linked with the true Christian faith and repentance. Jesus said clearly, and this applies to all without exception: “Unless you repent, you will all perish.” (Lk 13:3)
During our novitiate in the Order of St Basil the Great in Warsaw in 1991-92, Bishop Methodius met a professor of theology who said: “I was shocked when a statue of Buddha was placed on the altar in a church in Warsaw, and we prayed before it. But then we, older professors, said to ourselves: If our Pope gives a blessing to such events, and if he prayed together with pagans in Assisi, it means we should adopt a new view.”