Sergej Chapnin: “Kirill? He only thinks about money and power. I criticized the Church for him, he fired me “

MOSCA – Sergej Chapnin has always been a forerunner. In 2015, in a prophetic essay, he stigmatized the nostalgia for the “strong country” of the Russian Orthodox Church, or “Church of the Empire” as he called it. He words that cost him his dismissal after six years at the helm of the Moscow Patriarchate Newspaper. And last March he was among the first to invoke sanctions