Russia's invasion of Ukraine

[hibernicus]

I generally prefer not to publicise the looniest of looney trad-dom, but three articles on OnePeterFive are so egregious I'll make an exception.
Here we have someone who had been a trad (SSPX variety) for all of two years breathing dark hints about Jewish world conspiracies, producing a highly selective version of Russian history and idealisation of Tsarist autocracy (one notable example is that she mentions Tsar Paul's fighting Napoleon, but not that he did a volte-face and allied with him; she complains that Soloviev does not prove his statement that the Tsars treated the Orthodox Church as a branch of the secular civil service, without realising that he is referring to the fact that from the C17 the church was governed by a lay civil servant, the Procurator of the Holy Synod - asking Soloviev to "prove" his statement is like asking for "proof" that the Pope lives in the Vatican City State) and saying almost nothing about the history of Ukraine (such minor details as Tsarist persecution of the Greek Catholics go unmentioned) or the nature of the Putin regime, which is as likely to restore Christendom as the Mafia are to become Carthusians.
OnePeterFive has been drifting into monarchist lalaland for some time, but this is a new low.

[hibernicus]

May I just say that the Ukrainian government's suppression of the Moscow Patriarchate Orthodox Church because significant elements within it support the Russian invasion is an outrage comparable to some degree to the Soviet suppression of the Greek Catholic Church because significant elements within it collaborated with the Nazis.
The decision of the Latvian and Lithuanian governments to declare their Orthodox Churches autocephalous from Moscow by a vote in parliament, and to give the government a veto over the appointment of Orthodox leaders likewise - especially since this means state governments elected by non-Orthodox majorities are dictating the internal governance of the Orthodox churches.
None of this makes the Russian invasion of Ukraine any less a crime or alters the fact that Russia is a kleptocratic dictatorship reflecting deep flaws in Russian culture - but it's necessary to speak truth.

[Alaisdir Ua Séaghdha]

Agree absolutely. Can you imagine the outcry had Dáil Éireann took control of the Church of Ireland in this manner? In Latvia and Lithuania, the Orthodox are mainly ethnic Russians; in Ukraine, it's a lot more complicated. I also would say Kiril's support of Putin is appalling.

[annie]

Interesting article on the subject
kyleorton.substack.com/p/the-role-of-christianity-in-russias