Metropolitan Hilarion asks priests not to refuse the wedding to the Orthodox and Catholics

The head of the department of external church relations of the Moscow Patriarchate (MPC MP), Metropolitan Hilarion, recalled that the Russian Orthodox Church (Russian Orthodox Church) allows the possibility of mixed marriages between Christians of different faiths.

“Fundamentals of the social concept” are allowed by mixed marriages, but not all priests follow this recommendation, ”said Metropolitan Hilarion in Moscow at a meeting of the Christian interfaith committee of the CIS and Baltic countries that opened today . He admitted that he often has to deal with complaints of believers, which priests refuse to crush representatives of other faiths, notes in their information in their information About the meeting agency "Interfax" .

"There is such a problem - when, on the one hand, there is an official position, but, on the other hand, in practice they do not know it," said Metropolitan.

During the meeting, the head of the Catholic Archbishop of the God of the Mother of God in Moscow, Archbishop Paoles Pazzzi, called the participants to the "joint search for ways to overcome the spiritual crisis" and the collective development of the pastoral approach to the assertion of the concept of a traditional family, that is, monogamous and large families.