Metropolitan Hilarion of Volokolamsk, head of the Russian Orthodox Churchâ??s department of external relations and a frequent visitor to the West, is a young man of parts: a widely-published author; a composer; a gifted linguist. He can be charming and witty, as I discovered during two hours of conversation at the Library of Congress in 2011; and in the intervening years heâ??s positioned himself and his Church as defenders of traditional Christian values in a world threatened by Western decadence.
Thereâ??s a serious problem, however: Metropolitan Hilarion does not always speak the truth.
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