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20 May 2012Priest insists on dominant role for Orthodox Church in Russian society
"The Church must hold a position in society that means the right to speak as a power in all areas of public life, fulfilling a prophetic role not just of public conscience - we have many people who lay claim to representing public conscience - but of the voice of God in politics, economics, in any public process, in people's private lives, in their family life," archpriest Vsevolod Chaplin, head of the Synodal Department for Church and Society Relations, told a conference at Moscow Orthodox University of St. Tikhon
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