Greek hierarch: Crisis within RCC is more serious than often portrayed

Metropolitan Seraphim of Piraeus. Photo: Orthodoxia News Agency

Hierarch of the Church of Greece Metropolitan Seraphim of Piraeus criticized the results of the German Catholic Days forum in Würzburg. The bishop stressed that the event became “a loud testimony” that the crisis in the Roman Catholic Church is fundamental and much deeper than society usually assumes. This was reported by Orthodoxia News Agency.

“Although this was an ecclesiastical event of the papal church in Germany, the great absentee from it was Christ Himself,” the hierarch stated.

According to the metropolitan, the forum’s official program almost entirely ignored traditional Christian concepts such as sin, repentance, and eternal life.

An even more glaring fact, the hierarch said, was that the name of Jesus Christ appeared in the congress schedule only once, and then only as part of an international musical event.

Modern ideological trends took the place of Christian doctrine at the congress. Metropolitan Seraphim noted that the dominant topics of discussion were climate policy, issues of gender identity, and “queer theory.”

The Greek hierarch was particularly outraged by the children’s program: children were presented with homosexuality as a form of “normal diversity” and were taught ideas about so-called “rainbow families,” which directly contradict traditional Christian marriage.

“Secularized papism, having departed from the authenticity of Christian teaching, instead of following Christ, increasingly follows the spirit of the fallen world,” the hierarch stressed.

He also drew a parallel with Dostoevsky’s “Grand Inquisitor,” noting that the pursuit of worldly power and adaptation to the demands of the age are long-standing vices of the Vatican.

According to the hierarch’s position, the current state of affairs shows that the problem facing Catholics today is not organizational, but above all spiritual and ecclesiological.

As the UOJ reported, the Metropolis of Piraeus called a satanist convention in the United States a spiritual deviation.

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