ROC rep: After RCC blesses gays, reunification with Orthodoxy is impossible

Pope Francis and Metropolitan Hilarion. Photo: Vatican News

Metropolitan Hilarion of Budapest, the former head of the DECR-MP, said in an interview with Rod Dreher, an American writer and editor-at-large at “The American Conservative”, that the Vatican's document allowing the blessing of same-sex couples makes it impossible to talk about a possible reunion between Catholics and Orthodox Christians. The interview was published on the YouTube channel Jesus Portal.

The metropolitan said he was shocked by the decision because "we have always looked at the RCC as a beacon of traditional Christianity".

Asked by a journalist whether the Vatican document was the end of talks between Catholics and Orthodox about the possibility of reuniting the Church after the Great Schism of 1054, the hierarch answered in the affirmative.

"If we are realistic, we can no longer hope for future unity between Orthodox and Catholics. Such steps, of course, do not make us closer but will create new lines of separation," the Metropolitan said.

As reported, the Vatican allowed the RCC priests to bless homosexual couples.

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