Posted on 12/05/2016 10:34:50 AM PST by NRx
The head of the Russian Orthodox Church, Patriarch Kirill, has consecrated a new cathedral in central Paris, just yards away from the Eiffel Tower, with hundreds of worshippers attending the service he led there on Sunday.
Trinity Cathedral was opened as part of a Russian cultural and spiritual center on the banks of the Seine River in the French capital.
Around 500 Orthodox believers from the Russian community in Paris, including the offspring of Russia’s former princely houses, packed the church for the event.
Renowned French singer, Mireille Mathieu, and Russian super-model, Natalia Vodianova, were also attending.
The Patriarch called the new church a symbol of the close ties between the peoples and the cultures of Russia and France.
“It’s a monument to our close relations in the past and, certainly, a symbol of what awaits us in the future,” he said.
The Orthodox Church leader also thanked France for its hospitality to the Russian immigrants who arrived in the country after the 1917 revolution.
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He’s coming to the US - a society where his presence is sorely needed. I cannot wait to be near him and receive his blessing.
Really? I had no heard that.
http://dailysignal.com/2016/07/20/back-to-the-soviet-era-putins-new-law-could-lead-to-religious-crackdown/
Christians have an obligation to speak out about how Putin persecutes religious people.
See the link below to understand a little bit more about Putin's motives.
http://www.breitbart.com/national-security/2016/11/28/russia-holy-war-west/
"Putin has talked warmly about what he calls “spiritual security“—which means keeping versions of Christianity other than Russian Orthodoxy out of the country—even stating that Russia’s “spiritual shield” is as important to her security as its nuclear shield. His inspiration for this comes from Orthodox thinkers, above all Ivan Ilyin, who hated the West with vigor and passion. This anti-Western worldview seems strange and even incomprehensible to most Americans, its reference points are utterly foreign to us, yet is grounded in centuries of Russian history and spiritual experience."
NO to the Nazi Maidan in Ukraine! No to the sneaky Soros-driven attempts to protestantize Russia! NO to the phony Soros-driven “human rights” movement, and to regime-change wars (e.g., Syria)!!!!
NO to George Soros, Hillary clinton, Samantha World Power, etc. etc. That’s how America—and the Middle East, Serbia, and Russia—have gotten into trouble in the past 20 years!!! And that’s one thing that President Elect Trump wants to end!!!!
This is for you, too!!!!
The short answer is “sort of.” See: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Reichskonkordat.
It wasn’t a “Hitler-approved” Catholic Church, because he always did very much hate the Catholic Church as an organization, but it was a Church that agreed to neutralize some of its ability to oppose Hitler in exchange for Catholics not becoming second-class citizens and Church property not being molested. It wasn’t as much of a sell-out by the Vatican as it might seem at first because the Church had always had Concordats with German monarchical states to a greater or lesser extent regulating the appointment of bishops and the abbots of particularly wealth abbies. Up to the early 19th century, many of the German princely states actually WERE Catholic ecclesiastical entities, i.e., dioceses, archdioceses and abbies that were also countries under the rule of their prince-bishop or prince-abbot.
And you should “Yes to the Putin President for Life movement and Russian chauvinism. Yes to the neo-Russian Empire.”
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