Metropolitan Hilarion called the problem of television the lack of propaganda of family values Metropolitan Hilarion of Volokolamsk, Chairman of the Department for External Church Relations of the Moscow Patriarchate, spoke about such issues to the content of television programs in the program “Church and Peace” on the TV channel “Russia 24”.
According to him, claims arise if the main content of Russian TV broadcasts, various serials. They do not talk about positive values, do not show happy children.
Basically, the plots, Ilarion is sure, revolve around adultery, which is perceived almost as normative. He stressed that the main complaint is the educational function of TV channels.
Earlier today, Patriarch Kirill, on his 75th birthday, said that the church will never recognize same-sex cohabitation, this practice will always remain a sin. In his opinion, in the West, the church deviating from such foundations is losing its positions.
Later, Vakhtang Kipshidze, deputy chairman of the Synodal Department for Church Relations with Society and the Media, explained that the patriarch did not mean rejection of gays. For them, as for other sinners, repentance and spiritual healing are available.
At the same time, Kipshidze recalled that if the church refuses the border between sin and righteousness, then it naturally and inevitably loses its influence.