Moscow Patriarch: Papism Is Dangerous.
Moscow Patriarch: Papism Is Dangerous
“We cannot allow that a likeness of papism, a ‘quasi-papism’, should emerge in Orthodoxy,” Moscow Patriarch Kirill said on November 4 after a Liturgy at the Dormition Cathedral in the Moscow Kremlin. He made his statement not in reference to Pope Francis but to the Patriarch of Constantinople who violated canonical rules by granting ‘autocephaly’ to the Ukrainian Filaret Church.
Why Is Papism Dangerous?
Kirill continued: “I will say perhaps a somewhat unexpected thing.” Then, he asked the question: “Why is papism dangerous?” First, he gave a wrong reason claiming that papism does not follow from the Word of God and the Church’s Tradition. Then he offered – quote – “another, completely different argument” by saying, “Papism is dangerous in that it is much easier to influence one individual than a group of people.”
Pope Becomes a Target
Kirill explained this in the following way, “A pope and a patriarch who wants …More