Showing posts with label Human Rights. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Human Rights. Show all posts

July 18, 2024

The Image of our Society and the Church (Metropolitan Hierotheos of Nafpaktos)

  
By Metropolitan Hierotheos of Nafpaktos and Agiou Vlasiou

Various antisocial behaviors that provoke us all as well as the social sentiment of justice are published daily. Violent behavior from person to person cannot be justified, but neither can the image of our society, which we have shaped in our own way, be forgotten.

I think the issue that the Church must address as quickly as possible is the secularization not only of society, but also of the very nature of ecclesiastical life. I say this because a society that receives various influences, due to globalization, is constantly changing and is being de-ecclesiastical or de-religious by the various traditional models it has. This cannot be stopped in secular ways, and this also affects the members of the Church.