Post by Deleted on Sept 28, 2023 21:32:58 GMT
Catholic Bishop Athanasius Schneider, an ethnic German from Russia*, spoke in an interview in July 2022 with the organisation "Pro Life Belarus" about the role of Russia in the world. Bishop Schneider, who knows many Ukrainians closely, condemns the invasion of Ukraine, but we still understand that Russia has an important role in the world. Here is what Bishop Schneider said:
Interviewer: "[When the Russian Orthodox Church enters into communion with Rome], can we say Russia becomes a protector?"
Bishop Schneider: "Yes, absolutely right. I think if Russia, or rather the Russian Orthodox Church, enters into full communion with the Pope of Rome, then it will come under the fullness of the Church...Russia will become an instrument of God's will, and will resist the anti-Christian worldwide current and structures that want to enslave all of humanity with these materialisms."
Interviewer: "Can we say that Russia fulfils this great task today?"
Bishop Schneider: "It is difficult to say. Today, Russia perhaps partially fulfils this task, since Russia is still resisting gender ideology, the acceptance of which is the main goal of the world elite. We saw that they immediately brought this LGBT ideology to Ukraine. In Ukraine, so-called same-sex marriages are now part of the law, so this is already obvious. We see that Russia is, thus far, resisting this."
* although he has never lived in Russia, in the book Christus Vincit, Bishop Schneider identifies as a Russian German, in German: Russlanddeutsche. The Russlanddeutsche, to which Bishop Schneider belongs, are Russians of German ethnicity whose ancestors moved to Russia in the 18th and 19th centuries, when the Tsars invited them to farm the steppes and allowed them to maintain their language and Catholic / Lutheran religion. Bishop Schneider's family immigrated to Odessa at the beginning of the 19th century and lived in Ukraine until they were deported to Siberia during Stalin's Purge of 1937. Bishop Schneider grew up in Soviet Kyrgyzstan in a bilingual family of German ethnicity - his native languages are Russian and the dialect of German spoken by the Russian Germans. He has lived in the Russian-speaking world for most of his life and his ministry as a priest and bishop in Kazakhstan for the past 25 years has primarily been conducted in Russian.
Interviewer: "[When the Russian Orthodox Church enters into communion with Rome], can we say Russia becomes a protector?"
Bishop Schneider: "Yes, absolutely right. I think if Russia, or rather the Russian Orthodox Church, enters into full communion with the Pope of Rome, then it will come under the fullness of the Church...Russia will become an instrument of God's will, and will resist the anti-Christian worldwide current and structures that want to enslave all of humanity with these materialisms."
Interviewer: "Can we say that Russia fulfils this great task today?"
Bishop Schneider: "It is difficult to say. Today, Russia perhaps partially fulfils this task, since Russia is still resisting gender ideology, the acceptance of which is the main goal of the world elite. We saw that they immediately brought this LGBT ideology to Ukraine. In Ukraine, so-called same-sex marriages are now part of the law, so this is already obvious. We see that Russia is, thus far, resisting this."
* although he has never lived in Russia, in the book Christus Vincit, Bishop Schneider identifies as a Russian German, in German: Russlanddeutsche. The Russlanddeutsche, to which Bishop Schneider belongs, are Russians of German ethnicity whose ancestors moved to Russia in the 18th and 19th centuries, when the Tsars invited them to farm the steppes and allowed them to maintain their language and Catholic / Lutheran religion. Bishop Schneider's family immigrated to Odessa at the beginning of the 19th century and lived in Ukraine until they were deported to Siberia during Stalin's Purge of 1937. Bishop Schneider grew up in Soviet Kyrgyzstan in a bilingual family of German ethnicity - his native languages are Russian and the dialect of German spoken by the Russian Germans. He has lived in the Russian-speaking world for most of his life and his ministry as a priest and bishop in Kazakhstan for the past 25 years has primarily been conducted in Russian.