According to Christodoulos, “it is useful to teach Christians the faith and quality of the subjects that concern life. It would be a real shame to let Europe become alien, or even hostile, to the Church". The Church, he went on, “undergoes huge pressures, trying to force it to adapt its course of conduct to the needs of the powers of this world, to accept the abolition of the sin, to share its space with all the religions and heresies to respect everyone’s rights, not to express itself against abortion, to stop supporting the patriarchal family and let people start families according to their sexual preferences. It is asked to let a relativist and syncretistic society be settled”. “Our mission in the contemporary world is to express and proclaim the truth of our faith”, the Gospel, but for "the Church to be able to face its journey through the world, it needs friends and men of spirit who live and support the principles it contains and who make it in a credible way in a world that is tortured by violence, unemployment, xenophobia, totalitarianism, terrorism and the exploitation of human beings”.
