Posted by George Patsourakos
on 9/21/2009, 9:33 pm
Patriarch Kirill of Moscow and All Russia recently told an audience of several thousand young people in the Volga town of Sarov that the Church should be modern, but must not be reformed to fall in line with the "transient tastes of the time."
The head of the Russian Orthodox Church added, "The Church retains the apostolic faith that the apostles accepted from the Lord Himself."
He said the Church should "go forward" but avoid being reformed "to please modern tendencies," while at the same time remaining attentive and considerate toward people's "demands and problems, toward their joys and sorrows."
The Patriarch lashed out at tendencies in some branches of Christianity, which allow ordaining women as priests or blessing homosexual marriages.
He concluded by saying, "People should realize that falling away from faith under whatever pretexts is sinful and dangerous for man himself."
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