Posted on 11/03/2014 2:07:21 PM PST by NYer
All Catholic priests in the Crimea will be forced to leave by the end of 2014 under new rules established by the Russian government, the Forum 18 news service reports.
Since Russia assumed control of Crimea, authorities have enforced Russian laws that require religious communities to register for formal approval. To date, Forum 18 has found, no religious communities in the region have been registered.
Because only formally registered communities are allowed to have ministers from other countries, Catholic priests and religious from neighboring countries will be required to leave.
When questioned by Forum 18 about the difficulties these rules would cause for Catholic (and other) communities in Crimea, a Russian immigration official replied: “I don’t know. It’s not my problem.”
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Ping!
Simple....Just Register....They have to register here in the USA
Here kicker NYER
It is Orthodrox Church that get free pass
I wonder if those cowardly pieces of garbage here at FR who insisted that Putin would not persecute the Catholic Church in Crimea - when I told them it was inevitable - are now going to show up in the thread to admit that they are morons and completely miss the obvious.
Yeah, I won’t hold my breath.
“Simple....Just Register....They have to register here in the USA”
You only have to “register” in the USA if you want tax free status. If you want to be a ordained a priest and minister to people or be a nun or be a monk in the USA, you don’t have to register with anyone.
The only exception is if a priest wants to perform weddings recognized by the state. What is happening in Russia is entirely different.
I, for one, am very interested in how different it is.
Are Catholics persecuted in Russia? In Russian Satellites?
“Are Catholics persecuted in Russia?”
Yes.
1) In the refusal to turn over Catholic properties or their very slow repatriation. http://articles.latimes.com/1990-03-17/entertainment/ca-317_1_orthodox-church
2) In refusal to give out or renew visas for foreign clergy (native clergy were murdered after all). Financial Times of London (September 14, 2002) reports that “A total of five Catholic priests have been refused access to Russia so far this year, in a campaign denounced by the Vatican as ‘persecution’.” Zenit.org article on September 15, 2002 entitled “Russia Reportedly Has a Blacklist of Catholic Priests” quotes Bishop Werth of Novosibirsk, in Western Siberia, who says that “Russia has compiled a blacklist of Catholic priests it intends to expel in the near future.” The article goes on to recount Bishop Werth’s comments that there is a “‘new wave of persecution’ against the Catholic Church in the [Russian] federation….”
3) In refusal to grant building permits.http://www.speroforum.com/a/61795/RussiaPermissiontobuildaCatholicchurchinPskovdenied
4) In the kidnapping and disappearing of Catholic clergy: http://www.catholicnewsagency.com/news/ukrainian-catholics-experiencing-total-persecution-in-crimea/
And what’s already been happening to the non-Russian Orthodox in Crimea will happen to Catholics. http://www.catholicculture.org/news/headlines/index.cfm?storyid=20855
This is a long time feud. They HATE the Unite rites in Orthodox countries.
Sheesh.
The Russian have never treated Catholics well, never.
The difference here is that foreign Religious can only stay in the country in religious service for three months at a time and then have to leave for some period of time.
If that means "all priests and religious will have to leave" then all such folks must be something other than Ukrainian or Russian.
Has this to do with the Russian Orthodox Church’s claims over any Eastern Rite Catholic Churches?
Not surprised. This goes all the way back to the break-up, the big one between the Catholic Church and the Orthodox Church in the 1000’s.
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