Parakatathikos | April 28, 2025
On the occasion of the death of
Pope Francis and what followed, in the mass media of our country [of Greece],
we witnessed exaggerations and extremities that were neither accidental nor
spontaneous.
A journalist even characterized
the Pope as a God-man!
Orthodox (supposedly) Patriarchs,
Archbishops, and Bishops characterized him as a "brother," "most
holy," "friend of Orthodoxy," and even wished him "eternal
memory."
In terms of communication,
whoever looks to the East sees the "Green Patriarch," and whoever
looks to the West sees the "Pope of the poor."
Strange titles (at least for
Orthodoxy) that were carefully cultivated by their communication teams.
Exclusively in the Orthodox
Tradition there appears a type of asceticism, that of foolishness for Christ.
In these days we became witnesses
of a new dystopian hybrid of "holiness," that of a
foolish-for-Christ... heresiarch.
This decline, this experienced
communicational downfall, allows us two observations.
The first observation concerns
the very profession/office of the journalist. Professional journalists who are
bound by the code of ethics of the journalistic office are now rare.
Even more rare are the combative
journalists with adequacy in their linguistic equipment.
No resistance to the political and communicational strategies of the new
totalitarianism.
Two striking examples are the
rapid adoption of the rhetoric of the woke agenda and the use of the term North
Macedonia for Skopje, from the treacherous Prespa Agreement.
The politicians betray the
foundations of the nation, and the journalists, like wound-up parrots,
reproduce their treacherous narrative.
The second observation concerns
the office of the clergy, especially at the top of the administrative
ecclesiastical pyramid.
We observe a new model of
clergyman that has been formed since the second half of the 20th century and is
continually evolving. Its characteristic features are the new language, the
aversion toward Tradition, and the absence of Orthodox experience.
When, moreover, through their
interventions they resemble more the professional journalists we described
above and their rhetoric is completely identical, even more questions and
reasonable concerns are raised.
For an Orthodox clergyman, every
Pope is an unrepentant heresiarch.
No matter how much officials,
politicians, journalists, and Bishops attempt to communicate and paint the
hagiography of a Pope, in the conscience of the people, a heresiarch for Christ
cannot exist.
Christ is Risen!
Greek source: https://katanixi.gr/dia-christon-airesiarchis/
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