[A. Pole]

Alexy II, Patriarch of Moscow, a man who hasn't smiled since birth and who hasn't had a nice word to say about the Roman Catholic Church since he learned how to talk. He has a "problem" with the Eastern Churches who are in communion with the Pope. Particularly with the Ukrainian Catholic Church. Understandable. Since Stalin liquidated that Church, stole its buildings, and martyred its clergy and religious in staggering numbers back in the mid to late 1940s.

It is very insidious how you spin this story. Are you saying that Russian Orthodox Christians suffered LESS under the rule of militant atheists? Did they lose less clergy and faithful in the Gulag?

Soon you will blame Buddhists for the killing fields of Cambodia and Lutherans or Catholics for the Nazi atrocities. Shame on you.

[Lion in Winter]

I realise that this is Holy Week for EOC. What a pity somE of the RCs on this forum do not have the good taste to give up BASHING their fellow Christians on their Holy Week.

Because of this disgusting bashing of the EOC, I NOW understand why so many the EOC finds so many RCs to be unworthy of them.

Why bother to associate with folks who HATE you and YOUR CHURCH SO MUCH THAT BASH YOU DURING YOUR CELEBRATION HOLY WEEK?

[jb6]