Many Russian Christians Are Furious About the Meeting With the Pope
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www.russia-insider.com – February-March 2016
What treachery, what a betrayal of millions of Russian believers!’
Many see the Catholic church as supremely evil, and believe that any cooperation with it is wrong. ‘Even the Jews do not do as they do’
While the recent Pope/Patriarch meeting in Havana, Cuba generated very little interest in the West, it became a topic of heated public discussion in Russia.
Mainstream opinion – both religious and secular – heralded the mission as a sane call to terminating repression in the Middle East, and support for traditional values irrespective of their origins.
But a significant minority of Christians are furious. This is a representative example from a popular blogger. He is a former major in the General Staff Main Intelligence Directorate (GRU).
He argues that the meeting was a deliberate attempt to foment a schism within the Russian church, as a way to weaken and destroy Russia, and that it is succeeding, because many bishops and lay people have now lost trust in the patriarch.
On February 12, 2016 a historic event took place: Pope Francis and His Holiness Patriarch Kirill met in Cuba, paving the way for the reunification of the two Churches – the Eastern and Western.
No doubt other Orthodox Churches will join the Uniate (the act of unity) between the Catholic and Russian Orthodox Churches. There is still time left before the all-Orthodox Council for all Orthodox Church leaders to meet with the Roman celebrant, who is also a Jesuit.
Thus the Vatican can finally become the Church of Freemasonry: Templars, the Society of Jesus, the Order of Malta and Opus Dei, which henceforth will determine the policy of the Orthodox Churches.
Is that good or bad? For the Russian Orthodox Church it is a sign of end times, according to Jesus:
“And I say unto thee: That thou art Peter; and upon this rock I will build my church, and the gates of hell shall not prevail against it.” (Gospel According to Saint Matthew, Chapter 16, Verse 18)
In other words, the Russian Church that has kept the apostolic tradition until this day, would not be destroyed, would not be an abode for heretics like the Catholic Church, but would stay alive until the last day. How can this be possible, since the Uniate was signed with the Catholics, signifying the violation of apostolic rules and the decisions of the Ecumenical Councils? This can only be explained by the mighty works of God that are beyond human understanding.
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http://russia-insider.com/en/christianity/joint-declaration-pope-patriarch-may-split-russian-orthodox-church/ri12987
It takes humility to see that defeating Da’esh, the Muslim Brotherhood, indeed all forms of Muslim extremism; this is more than what the churches in communion with Constantinople can handle on their own.
Therefore dialogue is needed so that Rome isn’t on the sidelines.
I say this because there is a Lebanese gentleman I am in touch with, and he concludes that Levantine and Slavic Christians are their last hope. So, shall we show that we are mature, and do what needs to be done, or shall we show that we aren’t ready to move to meat from milk.
My highly devout Russian mother-in-law was one of the significant majority who was overjoyed at the meeting between the Pope of Rome and the Patriarch of Moscow.
Perhaps the paranoid lunatic fringe should make their way to Bari where their countrymen and women are regularly spotted at Catholic churches taking back with them myrrh oozing from the relics of St Nicholas that is extracted during a Catholic liturgical service.
Irrational, blind extremism masquerading as zeal for Tradition. The majority of Russians are not religious extremists.
I also wonder whether the paranoid lunatic fringe’s reaction when patriarch Kyril meets with Imams and Rabbis is any different to this.
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