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September, 12, 2002: Catholics and Communists
On September 9 and 10 two more Roman Catholic priests have been denied visas
to Russia. And still Western obervers were reluctant to admit that Putin's regime
is guilty in isolationism. They still preferred to take governmental and Moscow
Patriarchy explanations for granted. That was hard because there were no explanations
at all.
The anti-Cathilics measures of Putin are the continuation of the politics of
isolationism which began in 1993. It was then that President Yeltsin and Patriarch
Alexy began the campaign against those democratic tendencies which appeared in
1990-1992.
Under the pretext of struggling with former Communists in the parliament Yeltsin
restored the soviet system of concentration power in Kremlin. Chechens, democrats,
belivers of all sorts are victims of such policy, not the Communists. Struggling
with Communists the government wages Communist politics, restoring all peculiarities
of the Soviet system.
The repressions towards Catholic Church are only continuation of repressions
towards Moonies, Scientologists, Pentecostals and others. Roman Catholics never
defended religious freedom in Russia and even joined Moscow Patriarchy in the
struggle against "new religious movements." Now "cults" are
revenged.
Roman Catholic hierarchy during 1990-s waged most strange politics concerning
Russians, practically blocked for Russian possibility of ordination. In Russian
Orthodox Church there was abundance of vocations, hundreds of people were ordained
and many of them are most worthy priests. A lot of vocations were among Protestants.
Is it possible that only Roman Catholic Church suffered from the lack of vocations
or seminaries? No, it suffered from the anti-Russian prejudices of Roman Catholic
bosses. Just like in XVII c. Mexicans or Indians were denyed ordination and treated
like children, Russians in Russia of 1990 were treated by Rome like insufficiently
rationale creatures. And now the revenge: in 10 years only 3 Russian priests in
Roman Catholic Church in Russia.
See also: Anti-Catholic campaign in Russia,
2002
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