{"id":17754,"date":"2010-02-06T21:29:00","date_gmt":"2010-02-06T21:29:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/127.0.0.1\/site\/2017\/2\/1985\/russian_orthodox_patriarch_agrees_with_pope\/"},"modified":"2010-02-06T21:29:00","modified_gmt":"2010-02-06T21:29:00","slug":"russian_orthodox_patriarch_agrees_with_pope","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=17754","title":{"rendered":"Russian Orthodox Patriarch Agrees With Pope"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Patriarch Kirill of Moscow and All Russia is affirming that the Russian Orthodox Church and the Catholic Church stand together on many current social issues.<\/p>\n<p>The Russian Orthodox leader stated this Tuesday while addressing a bishops&#8217; meeting of his Church in Moscow&#8217;s Christ the Savior Cathedral, Interfax reported.<\/p>\n<p>He observed: &#8220;We [together with the Roman Catholic Church] have similar positions on many problems facing Christians in the modern world. They include aggressive secularization, globalization, and the erosion of the traditional moral principles.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;It should be noted that on these issues Pope Benedict XVI has taken a stance close to the Orthodox one.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.zenit.org\/article-28265?l=english\">Read it all<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Patriarch Kirill of Moscow and All Russia is affirming that the Russian Orthodox Church and the Catholic Church stand together on many current social issues. The Russian Orthodox leader stated this Tuesday while addressing a bishops&#8217; meeting of his Church<span class=\"ellipsis\">&hellip;<\/span><\/p>\n<div class=\"read-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=17754\">Read more &#8250;<\/a><\/div>\n<p><!-- end of .read-more --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":794,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[42,158,418,154,364],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-17754","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-religion-news-commentary","category-ecumenical-relations","category-orthodox-church","category-other-churches","category-roman-catholic"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17754","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/794"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=17754"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17754\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=17754"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=17754"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=17754"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}