Russian Orthodox Church Inter-Council Presence’s commission for opposing and overcoming church schisms meets in Kiev

20.09.2011 The ROC Inter-Council Presence’s commission for opposing and overcoming church schisms met for a regular session on September 19, 2011, at the Kiev Laura of the Caves. The chairman of the commission, His Beatitude Metropolitan Vladimir of Kiev and All Ukraine, sent the participants a message of greetings, assuring them of his prayers for the success of their work and noting that the main factor of their work lies in ‘the profound awareness of the abnormality of the situation when the faithful find themselves outside the saving fold of the Orthodox Church’. One of the causes of this situation is the cooling of love and the penetration of the church fold by ‘the spirit of this age – the spirit of division and pride’.