Bishop Hilarion Opposes Radical Liberalization in Protestant Communities

From OrthodoxNet.com:

Not all participants of the inter-Christian dialogue are ready to pursue partnership and solidarity, Bishop Hilarion of Vienna and Austria, Representative of the Russian Orthodox Church to the European Institutions, said.
“The divergence is so deep, that it can be compared to bottomless abysses,” Hilarion said in his interview to the Soyuznoye Veche, the newspaper of the Parliamentary Assembly of the Union of Belarus and Russia, commenting his dialogue with a Lutheran bishop.
According to Hilarion, the bishop refused to recognize abortion as a sin in a joint document, whereby he expressed “a more liberal approach to this challenge” as compared to the position of the Moscow Patriarchate.
“If we fail to reach consensus even on such matters which are seemingly obvious to all Christians, what can we do about other challenges?” Bishop Hilarion said.

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My take on this: I truly, passionately and ardently hope he becomes the next Patriarch of Moscow! Well done, Your Grace!