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Actually, she is not in good standing with the Vatican:
1) Notification [vatican.va]
2) Clarification [vatican.va]

Unfortunately, it appears this negative decision is not well known. There was an occasion where I had to inform the diocesan newspaper of the Los Angeles archdiocese about the negative decision because it had an announcement of an upcoming visit by Vassula in that diocese.

Then in 2006, Cardinal Mahony, upon learning that Vassula had been invited to speak at his cathedral by the rector, withdrew the invitation. http://articles.latimes.com/2006/jan/10/local/me-visionary10

I, too, believe that His Beatitude will become Pope and I am not even Ukrainian.
In fact, I have been saying that since His Beatitude was elected patriarch.
I think he has many good qualities in his favor to his becoming Pope-not to mention that he knows about nine languages!!!

Did anyone foresee a Slavic Pope in 1978?
Isn't it then entirely possible that there can be another Slavic Pope, especially from a Church which suffered so much for its fidelity to the See of Peter? What a great testament that would be!

Why is everybody so anxious to turn the Pope into a Catholic Dalai Lama? The Pope is Pope because he is the Bishop of Rome--nothing more, and nothing less. He must be a member of the Roman Church in order to be Bishop of Rome. Why would the Patriarch of Eastern Church want to be head of a Church other than his own? I submit that people who want Patriarch Sviatoslav to abandon his position as Archbishop of Kyiv to become Bishop of Rome hold to a highly defective ecclesiology, and this is responsible for a lot of the problems that afflict not just the Catholic Church, but relations between the Catholic and Orthodox communions.