Let us talk about love to those who live, not those who only preach it crooked. About Patriarchate and the Bucharest Pride march

Patriarchate, the Church, should be legitimate partners in any family conversation. But I'm not. They are not, as long as they look elsewhere when in Christian families, abuse is still unimaginable. Abused, killed women, traumatized children, earthquake cases in communities carefully by the church.

When the times are difficult, people need to believe in something bigger and better than what happens around them. And that something would be good to be a good promise. The Orthodox Church could be this: in the end, the faith in the later life, the promise of heaven should make us better, more patient, more attentive and bent to the other, it should give us a meaning of communion around Christian values. Which, on paper, are good.

I think the Orthodox Church is, in many places of service, aligned with this purpose. Her public communication, the line that comes from the patriarchy, is something that I cannot, for a long time, understand.

Bucharest Pride

At the Collective, an unimaginable tragedy coming from the powerlessness of a whole country, I saw no trace of involvement or even public communication of the Patriarchate. I had a shaken country: it was time for the Patriarchate to deal with its wounds. He spoke, but he spoke poorly, through the mouths of radicalized priests (some satanists died, they said) or too late and only on the surface (the presence of the Patriarch at the place of tragedy a few days too late). And then he was silent.

Then I had people in the street, for months. Ordinance, countless other abominations. I would have liked to hear from the Patriarchate a message of solidarity with those who demanded justice (I know it is pleonastic, but it may be more understandable that we have a crooked one) on earth, not in heaven. Solidarity with those who demanded straight things would have helped. That he is not involved in the political life is a sad excuse: the church is already there, to deny this is a visible joke and from the cosmos, and from the heavens they are talking about.

We then had countless news about abominable abuses performed in Christian families against women and children. I would have wanted, every time, to see communications of the Patriarchate to say: the traditional family is not violence. The traditional family, which we defend, is love. There is respect for the beings that compose it. In the traditional Christian family, the woman does not hit, the children are not physically and emotionally mutilated. The traditional family is faith in the other and in Christian values, it is respect.

I recently had the first great prelate convicted for some incredible acts against some children: sexual abuse, repeated, consistent, almost persevering, in a school where children were learning from the aggressor (I), in addition, the Christian morality. I would have liked to see the Patriarchate intervening in this case and saying about this, anything.

But we have a statement related to the Bucharest Pride march. In this issue, the Patriarchate asked for a place in Agora: it had to express that an incident of a community that cannot ignore, if not, Christian, accepts, disturbs it. It is a challenge to the traditional family, he said.

When the Patriarchate will speak, through any sending it, about domestic violence, when the Patriarchate will say that those who beat their wives and children in the traditional family commit some abominable facts for which the mere promise to the Church “that I do not”

Until then, the position of the Patriarchate about what kind of family is good and which is defective and how and where people should love it is not just a hypocrisy. It is a discussion about the love of an institution that does not practice love, the natural closeness, the gentleness, but the other.