Blessings were allowed last month in a document called Fiducia Supplicans (Supplicating Trust), which has caused widespread debate in the Catholic Church.
Lord Carey of Clifton addressed the European Coalition for Israel’s Emergency Summit on Global Antisemitism in Geneva last week.
The church court said the decision to expel him was taken in his absence after he failed to attend despite being summoned three times.
A side panel of the icon includes a depiction of the Georgian-born Stalin - an avowed atheist who violently repressed religion across the Soviet Union - being blessed by St Matrona of Moscow.
The war has also reawakened a thirst for Israel among the younger population of Christians, as well, Moore said.
The centuries-old tradition of paying homage to the black wooden statue of Jesus Christ, believed to have healing powers, drew massive numbers of Catholics to take part in the procession.
"The Israel-Hamas war has given us as Christians tremendous moral clarity," said Robert Nicholson, president of the Philos Project and co-founder of Passages.
The forces that drove Rome to become Christian did not immediately transform the empire into an entity that practiced modern Christianity. It was a process.
Rev. Dennis Nthumbi said that “the war against Hamas has exposed the decay in the UN and its moral rot that has led to the molestation of its statutes.”
"I was thinking that once again, our leaders sold us to the Jews," he continued. "That was when I decided to go and fight for our land, which I believe was ours."