Posted on 10/04/2022 6:37:24 PM PDT by marshmallow
Few in the West realize that the official Russian Orthodox Church has a significant administrative and policy-making bureaucracy which resembles a kind of ecclesiastical mini shadow government. The only thing resembling it in the West is the bureaucracy at the Vatican. There are departments (committees) for foreign affairs, book publishing, seminaries, charity, family, children's welfare, anti-abortion, media relations, culture, monasteries, youth, manufacturing of church supplies, and several more. The chairmen of these committees are appointed by the Patriarch and sometimes become quite prominent, often interacting at a high level with their corresponding government equivalents.
This article is a presentation given at a recent conference by the chairman of the committee for family, maternity, and childhood, which encompasses in it pro-life activism and lobbying of the government. This committee is on the more influential ones in the public eye, and his headed by a relatively young priest. It gives an interesting insight into how Russian policy makers think about upholding traditional family values.
This article is machine-translated so there may be some inaccuracies. Link to Russian original.
"New reproductive technologies are proposed to replace the family as the cradle of life. I am convinced that the time has come to respond to this challenge. The family requires comprehensive protection, including in public space," said His Holiness Patriarch Kirill of Moscow and All Russia.
Truly, the family has become so vulnerable in today's world that concern for it belongs to the issues of national security.
Who will protect Russia, if the mortality curve is steadily moving upward, there is a mass aging of the population, and an entirely unjustified reliance on migration is being made? And most importantly, will there be anyone left to be protected by our state?
The Russian Orthodox Church has always paid special attention to supporting the family and moral.......
(Excerpt) Read more at gorthodox.com ...
Vlad, let us know when Russia’s abortion rate in no longer the highest on the planet.
Yes, and Revelation would call this “Nicolaitan.”
The NSDAP called it “gleichschaltung,” or “all institutions in the hands of the government.”
The Russian Orthodox church is demonic
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