{"id":161604,"date":"2023-05-19T17:10:47","date_gmt":"2023-05-19T14:10:47","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/df.news\/?p=161604"},"modified":"2023-05-19T17:10:47","modified_gmt":"2023-05-19T14:10:47","slug":"ukraine-s-envoy-to-the-vatican-many-catholic-clergy-perceiving-russia-as-lost-sheep","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/df.news\/en\/2023\/05\/19\/ukraine-s-envoy-to-the-vatican-many-catholic-clergy-perceiving-russia-as-lost-sheep\/","title":{"rendered":"Ukraine\u2019s envoy to the Vatican: Many Catholic clergy perceiving Russia as \u201clost sheep\u201d"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Ukrainian ambassador to the Vatican, Andriy Yurash, has accused Russia of trying to exert influence and spread propaganda across the Catholic Church:<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Hundreds of clergymen of the Russian Church worked here for the relevant Soviet-Russian departments, covering themselves with cassocks,&#8221; the ambassador said in an interview with <a href=\"https:\/\/glavcom.ua\/interviews\/posol-ukrajini-u-vatikani-papa-prodovzhuje-sprijmati-rosiju-jak-zabludlu-vivtsju-928412.html\">Glavcom<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>He also noted that many Catholic clergy in the Vatican still perceive Russia as a &#8220;lost sheep&#8221; and the Russian Church \u2013 as a &#8220;religious institution&#8221; despite its shortcomings.<\/p>\n<p>In addition, the ambassador to the Vatican, Andrii Yurash, accused the newly appointed representative of the Russian Orthodox Church, Metropolitan Antoniy, of ties to the Kremlin.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Antoniy is the successor of Moscow\u2019s infamous bishop Hilarion&#8230;He knows Italian well and is familiar with the situation in the Vatican. He often meets with the Pope&#8230; And it is not ruled out that in addition to representing the Russian Orthodox Church, he may also perform certain tasks of the Russian government,&#8221; Ambassador Yurash said.<\/p>\n<p>He emphasized that Metropolitan Antoniy is \u201cvery close to Patriarch Kirill\u201d and that in the past, he served as a bishop of the Russian Orthodox Church in Italy.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Ukrainian ambassador to the Vatican, Andriy Yurash, has accused Russia of trying to exert influence and spread propaganda across the Catholic Church: &#8220;Hundreds of clergymen of the Russian Church worked here for the relevant Soviet-Russian departments, covering themselves with cassocks,&#8221; the ambassador said in an interview with Glavcom. He also noted that many Catholic [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":16,"featured_media":95084,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"telegram_tosend":false,"telegram_tosend_message":"","telegram_tosend_target":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[5142,5147],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-161604","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-news","8":"category-world-en"},"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/df.news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/04\/277676228_685398236011164_4638357792673361992_n.jpg?fit=2048%2C1364&ssl=1","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/df.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/161604","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/df.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/df.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/df.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/16"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/df.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=161604"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/df.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/161604\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":161605,"href":"https:\/\/df.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/161604\/revisions\/161605"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/df.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/95084"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/df.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=161604"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/df.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=161604"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/df.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=161604"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}