Paul
Goble
Staunton, September 23 – Ukrainian
churches have been gaining in recent years as ever more people have chosen to
leave the parishes of the Moscow Patriarchal Church in that country, Chaplain Nikolay
Medinsky says; but if the Ukrainian government were to ban the Moscow church as
some are suggesting, those gains could turn into losses over night.
That is because, the Greek Catholic
priest says, such a governmental ban would be taken as “a signal” by some of the
most zombified within the Russian church and they would “immediately begin
protest actions in society” (apostrophe.ua/article/society/2017-09-23/mojno-zapretit-v-ukraine-moskovskiy-patriarhat-no-est-opasnost--svyaschennik-iz-ato/14184).
Indeed, he says, some of them might
try to act in ways that would allow them to become martyrs to their cause. At the very least, this would divide many
communities and weaken Ukraine, something many in Moscow may want but that no
one committed to Ukraine’s future can possibly be in favor of.
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