From the Greek Archbishop’s Cabinet
(
25.11.2007
)
“At the same time, during the last few days we have been receiving a multitude of messages in which it is requested that His Beatitude oppose the recognition of FYROM with the name of
He is pleased with the sensitivity of the people and is asking all of us to have complete confidence in the wisdom and stability of our entire political leadership.”
From the Cabinet of the Archbishop of Athens and all Greece Christodoulos
Source: www.Ecclesia.gr
Commentary from the staff of the MOC website
As we are able to note, the one who writes on behalf of His Beatitude kyr Christodoulos (who certainly does not ponder upon such foolishness even in the back of his mind, considering the state he is in) is reminding everybody that: “the position of the Church is well known to all state factors”. Naturally, this reminder is merely a formality, given that the same ethnophyletic policy of the Greek Church has been well-known throughout the centuries so that all of us (meaning, all of us Orthodox) are nowadays tasting its fruit, that is, this dissolute Orthodoxy which God only could gather…
Fortunately, the same writer who is hiding behind the Archbishop’s name, instead of promising involvement of the Church, “is asking all of us to have complete confidence in the wisdom and stability of their (i.e. Greek) entire political leadership”. We, in turn, hope that this political leadership is sufficiently ‘stable and wise’ not to oppose the politics of the