Paul Goble
Staunton, Jan. 17 – When Putin began his expanded war against Ukraine, Dmitry Dubrovsky says, the Russian Orthodox Church of the Moscow Patriarchate lost many of its parishioners because “even pro-war, pro-Putin ones did not expect the fierce pro-war rhetoric the church offered.”
Such attitudes and the flight from the Moscow church they have produced has created a behind the scenes conflict within the church, the Russian sociologist who now teachers at Charles University in Prague says, and there is “real tension growing within the church” (svoboda.org/a/rusofobiya-po-putinski/33278107.html).
What is striking and perhaps somewhat unexpected is how the head of the church, Patriarch Kirill has decided to respond. He appears to believe that “the only way out of this … is to rally around Putin even more closely,” despite the fact that this may drive more believers away and leave his hierarchy ever more a tightly controlled appendage of the Russian state.
Tuesday, January 21, 2025
Moscow Patriarch Believes His Church Can Regain Following It Lost in 2022 Only By Becoming More Pro-War, Dubrovsky Says
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