Posted on 11/19/2010 9:24:41 AM PST by kronos77
Moscow Patriarchate, Vatican wage common fight against secular liberalism - Patriarch Kirill
Moscow, November 19, Interfax -Despite a difficult relationship between the Russian Orthodox and the Roman Catholic Churches, they have been effectively cooperating along many avenues, Patriarch Kirill of Moscow and All Russia told students and diplomats at the Russian Foreign Ministry Diplomatic Academy in Moscow.
"Together with the Roman Catholic Church we have been defending the traditional Christian concept of family and human values from aggressive secular liberalism. Our Churches are waging a common fight against medico-biological experiments incompatible with respect for human dignity," His Holiness said.
Cooperation with the Roman Catholic Church has become possible thanks to Pope Benedict XVI and is proceeding simultaneously along several avenues.
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This is good news.
Christians have a common enemy in secular humanism. So do other ethically based faiths like Orthodox Judaism.
The reunification of the Eastern Church with the Western Church may be our only hope in staving off Islamic Jihad especially in Europe where Sharia Law is becoming more common.
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