It's an interesting question, but the Melkite Patriarch and the Latin Patriarch are in communion with each other; maybe, just maybe, they might just collaborate as well? It's a shocking thought, I know.
I don't see any particularly useful purpose for your "scare quotes".
Why hasn't the Melkite Patriarch commented? Shireen belongs to his Church, not the Latin "patriarchate".
It's an interesting question, but the Melkite Patriarch and the Latin Patriarch are in communion with each other; maybe, just maybe, they might just collaborate as well? It's a shocking thought, I know.
I don't see any particularly useful purpose for your "scare quotes".
Thank you for this coverage.
Also, humourous typo: "[t]here are nearly 1.6 members of the Melkite Catholic Church", which I can only imagine was intended to read "1.6 million".
WOOPS!