Chaldean patriarch rips Western actions in Iraq: ‘we are a ruined church’ May 5, 2014 by Fulcrum Eleven years after the US invasion of Iraq, the head of the Chaldean Catholic Church declared that “we are a ruined church” and said that “1,400 years of Islam could not uproot us from our land and our churches, while the policies of the West [have] scattered us and distributed us all around the world.” Catholic World News. 1 May 2014 FulcrumShareTweetShare