Daily Journal:

Patriarch Kirill again hints that it is time for the Russian Orthodox Church to defend not the values ​​and priorities that secular society expects from it, but those ideas and values ​​that the patriarch himself promotes. Why not.

In the end, it's always better to say what you think. If this does not fall within the purview of the prosecutor's office, but this is not about the church leadership, of course.

And you don't have to be politically correct. We just need to remember that political correctness is simply the rules of politeness and moderation in social communications. And a person who wants to speak impolitely and/or radically must do it in such an interesting way that he can be forgiven for deviating from generally accepted norms. And this is not so simple, by the way.

Sometimes church leaders manage to successfully shock public opinion. And this is good in its own way.

It would be even better if Church leaders could participate on equal terms in specific discussions, without immediately turning the conversation into the mode of listing the points of their specialness: specialness is easy to recognize from the outside, but difficult to develop from within.