{"id":17499,"date":"2022-04-29T09:50:46","date_gmt":"2022-04-29T07:50:46","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/mwehle.eu\/wp\/?p=17499"},"modified":"2022-04-29T10:00:06","modified_gmt":"2022-04-29T08:00:06","slug":"17499","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.wehle.ee\/wp\/?p=17499","title":{"rendered":""},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.economist.com\/erasmus\/2017\/08\/25\/the-vaticans-secretary-of-state-visits-moscow-for-the-first-time-in-19-years\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Economist, 25.08.2017<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Tikhon_(Shevkunov)\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-17501\" src=\"https:\/\/mwehle.eu\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/04\/Tikhon-Shevkunov-2016.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"30%\" srcset=\"https:\/\/mwehle.eu\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/04\/Tikhon-Shevkunov-2016.jpg 662w, https:\/\/mwehle.eu\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/04\/Tikhon-Shevkunov-2016-199x300.jpg 199w, https:\/\/mwehle.eu\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/04\/Tikhon-Shevkunov-2016-99x150.jpg 99w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 662px) 100vw, 662px\" \/><\/a>Tikhon recalled the saying of a revered Russian bishop of the early <span style=\"white-space: nowrap;\">20th century<\/span> that \u201cCatholics are not even a church and as a result not even Christian.\u201d The very fact that both President Putin and Patriarch Kirill used the word \u201cchurch\u201d this week when referring to Roman Catholicism will doubtless upset some purists.<\/p>\n<p>Russia\u2019s leadership are pulled in two different directions regarding relations with Rome. On the one hand, it is expedient for Russia to have a more or less friendly diplomatic interlocutor in the Western world at a time when it is under sanction from just about every other Western authority. On the other hand, upholding the doctrinal purity of eastern Christianity against all comers (in practice, against the Catholics) has been one the country\u2019s\u00a0<em>raisons d\u2019<\/em><i>\u00ea<\/i><em>tre<\/em>\u00a0since the 16th century, at least in the eyes of Russian nationalists.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Economist, 25.08.2017: Tikhon recalled the saying of a revered Russian bishop of the early 20th century that \u201cCatholics are not even a church and as a result not even Christian.\u201d The very fact that both President Putin and Patriarch Kirill &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.wehle.ee\/wp\/?p=17499\">Weiterlesen <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"inline_featured_image":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-17499","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.wehle.ee\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17499","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.wehle.ee\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.wehle.ee\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.wehle.ee\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.wehle.ee\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=17499"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.wehle.ee\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17499\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.wehle.ee\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=17499"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.wehle.ee\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=17499"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.wehle.ee\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=17499"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}