Today we are dragged into the format of a political party, – UOC Primate

17 September 2018 13:28
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His Beatitude Metropolitan of Kiev and All Ukraine Onufry His Beatitude Metropolitan of Kiev and All Ukraine Onufry

The Church should be led by Christ, not politicians, said His Beatitude Metropolitan Onufry.

The Church is dragged into the format of a political party, His Beatitude Metropolitan Onufry of Kiev and All Ukraine said in the programme "Morning with Inter" on September 14.

"Today we are dragged out into the format of a political party so that we will be a political party led by some politicians but not Christ," said the Primate of the UOC.

Metropolitan Onufry stressed that if he wanted to be a politician, he would immediately become one.

"I had such chances in my youth, but I threw them back. Wearing spiritual clothes, I must take care of the spiritual. And those people who put on their cassocks and engage in active politics, make geopolitical plans, are simply dishonest ... <...> Before God these people will have to answer very hard," said the Primate of the UOC.

 

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