The Inauguration of the People's Salvation Cathedral

The Romanian Orthodox Church wants to build a huge People's Salvation Cathedral. Of course with the money from the State budged (around 900 millions euro). Ironically will be next to the House of the People, the huge building made during Ceausescu's regime.

They started the construction but they already build also a small, simple, cheap and temporary, cartoon made church, as a way to mark the territory. We made a campaign announcing that that's the People's Salvation Cathedral, and we set the day of 11.11.11 for its inauguration.

At the inauguration I appeared as a priest and, after a very short religious procession, I apologized, in the name of the Orthodox Church, for the exploitation and commercialization of gypsy slaves by the Romanian Orthodox Church till the 19 century (a taboo issue for them).

I announced that the orthodox churches will be day and night open, for the homeless people, that are more and more on the streets, evacuated from their homes by the banks.

I announced also some possible reforms inside the Church, like the women to have the same rights as man to perform the mass and to have access in the hierarchical structure at any level, not just to clean the church and sell candles.

But actually I criticized also the hierarchical structure of the Church and the hypocrisy - everything is in gold, allot of properties and political power. The top members of Church travels in limousine surrounded by police, blocking the traffic for the rest of people. I said that all this represents the Antichrist because is the opposite of Jesus message - simplicity, poverty, love... 

But in general I was thankful for the honor to inaugurate the People's Salvation Cathedral and happy for an important step of Romanian Orthodox Church towards christianity  - they chose to do a simple and spiritual church instead of building the opulent home for the Antichrist (of course they didn't).