How common can this be? I'm familiar with the Catholic rule against even permanent deacons being political leaders, but am unfamiliar with the regulations in other jurisdictions.
Kyiv - (RISU) - Recently, Kyivan Monastery of the Caves superior archbishop Pavlo (Lebid) appeared on the Communist Party’s list of Kyiv City Council election candidates, prompting public support from the Ukrainian Progressive Socialist Party (UPSP).
“Today, it is necessary to preserve the connection with the mother church and Russian Orthodoxy” commented UPSP leader Natalia Vitrenko to the Intermedia Consulting agency.
Vitrenko does not view the Orthodox Church in Ukraine in terms of different patriarchates: “We have the Ukrainian Orthodox Church and its spiritual center is in Moscow.” She pointed out that the spiritual center of the Catholic Church is the Vatican: “No one calls the Polish Catholic Church, ‘the Catholic Church – Vatican Patriarchate.’”
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Feckless political functionaries generously described as the useful idiots of a useful idiot.
ReplyDeleteIf you don't know whose useful idiot they belong to think "Codename Blackbird".
No one dare say in polite company that the awful truth is as apparent as the Emperor is naked...
Once again Simple is just being a rambunctious uniate and an inveterate latiniak who is hopelessly blinded by cold warrior Latinized thinking - or at least some will nod their head and marvel at such. But I can roll with that - anyone who can't see the naked-as-a-jaybird emperor is blind.
Meanwhile, back at the Vatical +Kasper & company look to placate these thugs and do what they can to distance themselves from the "evils of unia" up to and including refusing to erect a hierarchy for Russian Greek Catholics and leaving men like Father Myron Effing out in the cold - reduced to going on begging tours in the US because no support from Rome's mission assistence agencies is allowed to be forthcoming.... Plus Patriarch Blackbird thinks (in the face of depopulation, consumerism, rising abortion rates and all the rest of the new and sexy western sins!!) that Catholics are an enemy.
Wake up, everyone!
Thanks for the post. I take many of your points to heart.
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