Patriarch Kirill of Moscow (L), Priest Seraphim Holland of ROCOR (R)

Father Seraphim Holland (ROCOR) addressed the following comment to editor Giacomo Sanfilippo on his Facebook timeline in response to Patriarch Kirill’s justification of the joint Kremlin-Patriarchate invasion of Ukraine due to Kyiv Pride. Father Holland expresses no regret for the invasion or mentions it at all.

You are spending too much energy hating and too much energy for things which are unclean.

Because you are obsessed with those things, you hate those who teach Orthodox Doctrine regarding them.

Somehow I think you have a good heart, but you’re blinded by your obsession with LGBTQ.

And by the way, I don’t know exactly what [Patriarch Kirill] said. He might have said things that were not good to say; however you loathe anyone, it seems, who teaches Orthodox sexual ethics.

Боже великий, єдиний, нам Украïну храни. Great and only God, protect Ukraine for us.

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