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To: FormerLib
Let's start with the Communists murdering 30,000 clergy prior to WW2. They hunted down every clergyman who was willing to condemn what the Communists were doing and they murdered them. The clergy who survived learned that they could only feed his sheep if they kept a low profile.

Yes, I knew that was the case with both Catholic and Orthodox priests in Communist regimes. I didn't think that the Orthodox priests were any less brave than Catholic ones.

Regards

15 posted on 12/21/2006 4:40:04 AM PST by jo kus (Humility is present when one debases oneself without being obliged to do so- St.Chrysostom; Phil 2:8)
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To: jo kus
Yes, I knew that was the case with both Catholic and Orthodox priests in Communist regimes. I didn't think that the Orthodox priests were any less brave than Catholic ones.

I wish that more people would make that connection, instead we have this article defaming the Orthodox Church posted twice on the forum. Go figure.

19 posted on 12/21/2006 7:36:42 AM PST by FormerLib (Sacrificing our land and our blood cannot buy protection from jihad.-Bishop Artemije of Kosovo)
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