The uncatechized Greeks and the unrepentant Vatican

by Dimitrios K. Anagnostou, Theologian | April 27, 2025

 

On the occasion of the Pope’s funeral, the confusion, the delusion, and the betrayal of many contemporary Orthodox Greeks regarding their faith, but also their history, were revealed even more. We heard the unbelievable and the absurd, as if we were in a Papal country, and even worse.

Mrs. Korina Georgiou, journalist of Skai, moved to the point of tears by her assignment to the Vatican, mentioned (commenting on the good weather in Rome): "The sun concurred with the holiness of Pope Francis and showed that he is being led into the light!"

As for Mr. Tsouros, journalist of Mega, he seriously agreed, as he emphasized, with the papal cleric who was a guest on his show, that in the election of the new Pope the illumination of the Holy Spirit would prevail, since, after all, among both the Orthodox and the Catholics, as he stated, "the body and blood of Christ that the faithful partake of are the same"!!!

In the end, we are both uncatechized and ignorant of history. And as for the journalists, it is understandable — they either do not know what they are saying or simply say what they are told to say — but has the Greek people, after all, been lobotomized, so as to ignore or forget that Papism is the greatest distortion of Christianity, that the Pope as an institution, with the characteristics he assumed after his schism from the Church, has been aptly characterized by a great Orthodox Dogmatic theologian of the 20th century (the Serbian Elder Justin Popovich) as one of the three falls in the history of humanity (the first being Adam, the second Judas, and the third the Pope), and that the state of the Vatican is one of the most corrupt states in the world?

So as not to go into more difficult and deeper matters, such as that Papism is not the Roman Catholic Church as it was until the 11th century. After all, the Catholic Church, according to the Saints of the second millennium, is and remains only the Orthodox Church, as the "One, Holy, Catholic, and Apostolic Church" that we confess in the Symbol of Faith.

Let certain theologians of the "times," and not only them, be held accountable, who became more royalist than the king (the Christianophobic Ministry of Education) and took the lead so that even the subject of Religious Education for Orthodox Greek students would cease to have a catechetical character and essentially become religious studies and colorless. They convinced us that Catechism is something inferior and bad, whereas it is the necessary acquisition of knowledge in order for us to gain awareness of our unique and precious Faith.

On the other hand, the Vatican remains, like its Papism, unrepentant, as was once again confirmed (with a "rich" past against Orthodox East and Hellenism, from the horrific first Fall of Constantinople and our National Revolution of 1821, to the Second World War and the Asia Minor Catastrophe), even at the funeral of the deceased Francis, with the inclusion in its ceremonial of the active participation of a group of Uniates ("janissaries" of the "Holy See," "Orthodox" in appearance but who commemorate and submit to the Pope), in the presence of Patriarch Bartholomew, who performed a memorial prayer for the pontiff and even sang three times in the Greek language "Christ is Risen," thus returning mockery to the Orthodox Tradition of which, according to Patriarch Bartholomew and his like-minded companions or other naive individuals, the deceased was supposedly a friend.

What will save us?… The psalmist points it out to us:

"Embrace instruction (Orthodox catechesis and Patristic study), lest the Lord be angered and you perish from the righteous way"!

P.S. And while the aforementioned unfortunate admirers of the Pope are simple laypeople, there are also quite a few rasso-wearers who did not fall short in making unacceptable statements. A typical and most characteristic case is that of the well-known self-promoter as a great Spiritual Father, Nektarios Moulatsiotis, who, in a related video, says unspeakable things, revealing in all its negative "splendor" his shallowness or even his... opportunism (as a recent supporter of the occupant of the Phanar), weaving praises for the deceased leader of the heretical West, Pope Francis, even judging that God took him on a good day as a "friend of Orthodoxy" (!) and wishing, he too — once promoted as a staunch struggler — for the "union of the Churches"! What opportunism indeed!... And yet, this reckless cassocked man is promoted by the ecclesiastical television station "Lychnos," of the supposedly traditional Metropolis of Patras, as a wise Elder and experienced Teacher of Orthodoxy. New times, new customs!

 

Greek source: https://aktines.blogspot.com/2025/04/blog-post_542.html