ORTHODOX PATRIARCH DISPUTES REPORT
(Friday) The Ecumenical Patriarch says that contrary to reports he did not confer the Order of St Andrew on Fidel Castro. Link

I only mention it because I was among those who thought he was acting less than wisely. It was such an unusual story -- not the kind of thing that someone would misinterpret. I wonder how the story, which was widely distributed, got started and why it took so long for the church to respond to it.