Posted on 03/17/2022 12:58:23 AM PDT by chajin
(CP) A congregation in the Netherlands is seeking to leave the Russian Orthodox Church in opposition to Patriarch Kirill of Moscow's support for the invasion of Ukraine, filing a request for "canonical dismissal"
The Russian Orthodox Parish of Saint Nicholas of Myra in Amsterdam posted an announcement on its Facebook page last Saturday stating that "the clergy unanimously announced that it is no longer possible for them to function within the Moscow Patriarchate and provide a spiritually safe environment for our faithful."
The announcement was "extremely painful and difficult for all concerned" and came in response to what the parish called a "threat to the parish and the clergy."
(Excerpt) Read more at christiantoday.com ...
“spiritually safe environment for our faithful.”
The West in general and Europe in particular is doomed
The West is doomed when those like you instantly attack a church making the correct decision to not be under some Moscow stooge who is a fraud.
Stoogey McSorosstooge weighs in...
I agree with the decision but the explanation sounds like PC nonsense.
Just state it bluntly. the Patriarchate has compromised the Church.
The 8 year old weighs in. What’s next, calling me a doo-doo head?
You already know what I think of you, you insufferable pseudoTexan gasbag.
Oh no, a Pooty fanboy doesn’t like me and called me names. WHAH...
This is not unprecedented in Russian history.
Quite typical actually, for the church to sell out to the Tsar.
You’ve only been here since 2002. You are the newbie.
You have your mouth.
I have the htmls to prove it. I was once a FR archivist in the early days. 
I always kinda wondered if there were some of my posts around from the old BBS days. How do you find them?
I was more interested in the PC language use to justify the opt out. Seems to have escaped you. Usually does escape the notice of leftists in conservative clothing like ya self.
How’s your prison colony doing down under? As screwed up as Australian is you have the gall to bash the US over and over again? I can see why you instantly and always defend Putin. A slave mentality.
You give yourself away by your focus. Its was not Putin’s stooge. Thats says it all.
You saw the PC phraseology. That’s what I was thinking in my post. Irrespective of the merits of the opt out. Which I do think is fallacious. Preachers in the Bible Belt praised Bush jr on Iraq. Not sure I heard of pentecostal groups leaving the overall evangelical congregant churches over it. The EO church in Russia has kept the flame of Christianity alive in Russia through hardships few couch Potato westerners would understand. Golden Horde. Bolsheviks. Nazis. It has shown incredible resilience and is little different to the Vatican as far as giving its stamp of approval to the state. And how ironic the West has a commie pope
I stumbled on to the nascent FR [after the White Water BBS] this month 25 years ago courtesy of our favorite curmudgeon Rodger Schultz.
I'll do you a solid and look through my files to see if I got anything from you in 1998/1999.
You're aware they had to delete most if not all of those files - but some reside on The Wayback Machine.
Wot the stuff are you on about? Go strap yourself to an icbm or something will ya
Is that jumbled mess Australian?
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