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"He said that at Protestant churches, the majority of the leaders “aren’t good, strong men”, whereas the Orthodox church leaders are more like “father figures”. He said: “They look like men. They look like fathers, they’re strong, spiritually, mentally, physically... I think young men right now are yearning to follow a good father.”
With the exception of ROCOR which knowingly ordains pedophiles and sexual abusers, and which has a Sexual Abuse Policy that favors the protection of the clergy rather than the victims?
Father Seraphim, will you enlist some of those masculine men to encourage ROCOR to change their policy and to advocate for the protection of the clergy abuse victims? Apparently, some of their clergy have been allowed for years to be less than masculine fathers and anything but strong, spiritually, mentally and physically whole. ROCOR has a history of ignoring the petitions of the weak and fatherless and those who would advocate for them. Perhaps the ROCOR Hierarchy will listen to men with muscles?
No, Fr Seraphim Holland won’t because one of his family member is married into the extended Williams clan.
ReplyDelete"Peter began to say to him, “Look, we have left everything and followed you.”
DeleteJesus said, “Truly I say to you, there is no one who has left their house or brothers or sisters or mother or father or children or property because of me and because of the good news, who will not receive a hundredfold now in this present time (houses and brothers and sisters and mothers and children and property, along with persecutions) and in the age to come—everlasting life.
But many who are first will be last, and the last will be first.”
Ah nepotism at its finest
DeletePlus Seraphim Holland is part of the convert priests in the ROCOR who have taken fundamentalist baggage including subservience of woman and women's purity culture with him. With them it is always blame the victim not the abuser.
ReplyDeleteIt is wishful thinking to hope that the ROCOR will do anything about sex abusers. Always report any child sex abuse to the law first. That is the rule to follow. Also inform the local media. Why? Others who have been abused will hear about this abuser and come foreword. There are also organizations that will help the abused in the healing process and provide mediation and advice. SNAP or Prosopon https://www.prosoponhealing.com/
ReplyDeleteI'd be shocked if he did... Holland has some verbally abusive and manipulative tendencies himself, unfortunately. I don't go to his church for that reason anymore. Nothing to my knowledge is illegal going on, just so I'm clear, but I don't put up with his verbal abuse anymore.
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