Paul M. Weyrich, Chairman and CEO of the Free Congress Foundation
Rating: 10|Votes: 2
The European Union, when it was formed, adopted a position against discrimination of the sexes. But it granted an exemption to Mt. Athos because of its special status as a holy place. Now, however, the European Parliament is in the process of reconsidering that exemption.
Metropolitan Daniel of Tokyo and All Japan
Rating: 9,7|Votes: 10
When I was young, I enjoyed intellectual activities. But now, having the main part of my life behind me, I have come to the conclusion that knowledge is far from everything. The most important thing is the spiritual state of our souls and hearts, which leads to salvation.
Natalia Narochnitskaya
The problem of corruption and criminalization is becoming a topic of the national strategy and political dispute in Russia and needs fundamental analysis. Meanwhile discussion over this issue results as a rule in suggestion of better methods of discovering illegal operations, development of punitive measures and endless reorganizations of the corresponding police bodies. However their weakness testifies to the deeper causes of such a large-scale illness of the national organism. But they should be searched for in the field of consciousness, which is a subject of sociology.
Bishop Kyrill of San Francisco and Western America
Rating: 10|Votes: 1
Interview given by Bishop Kyrill of San Francisco and Western America, for the San Francisco Cathedral Publication "Messenger", September 27, 2003.
Prepared by Dmitry Safonov
Well-known Moscow hierarchs, who personally knew the reposed Metropolitan of Sourozh, share their reminiscences of their meetings with His Eminence, speak about the significance of the recently departed eparch of God.