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Question: If the Scriptures predict that in the end of times the love of the many will diminish, perhaps Papacy and Phanar follow a realistic course by being ready to compromise with European multiculturalism? 

Answer: Their course is as realist as the course of someone who would commit suicide because he is mortal. As a doctor does not exist to kill, so a man does not exist to commit suicide, a priest does not exist to lock the church. The priest exists in his church open, and when others want to break it down, he does not co-operate with them, nor does he abandon it, even when knowing that they will succeed. Opening of the gates and Holy Mission is the denial of the priests to live as extra-terrestrials, to change human nature and decide that faith is not for peoples and societies – even if they know that the many will deny it.  

Along with this, they know that faith is not an ideology to be imposed, or just exposed for whomever might like to judge, decide and accept it, as one would do with a scientific position. Priesthood acts in a single way, which is to witness the truth personal, recognising in real catholicity a condition profoundly inward yet also potentially global, thus forming a necessary horizon of the person as such, to a spontaneous unpredictable expansion, just as a family or a people is born. Priesthood is a loving activity, when being denied, it does not meet denial with denial even in the ‘peaceful’ form of a contract.  

A Magna Carta of Christianity is inconceivable save only as destruction of Christianity, that is avoidance of both witnessing of the truth and martyrdom for the truth, letting society become just a balance of powers and diplomatic warfare, forming ‘Christian’ clergy as one among various ‘sacred’ lobbies, striving to promote abstract values and vain ethical systems. Christian faith may be limited to only a closed circle and yet be real, only if it is a circle of martyrdom, marginalized with bloodshed, not with its own agreements. Christian faith as a culture has a missionary nature, that is, it can not but refer to the outside by expanding or by being persecuted. As happens with any loving relationship, a treaty is not its expansion nor its protection, but a proof of its absense. 

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