Much sabre rattling is to be heard in some areas of Russia where there is displeasure that the Catholic Church has resumed activity with the fall of the USSR. Every so often, it is lamented in some quarters that a hierarchy and parishes have been re-erected for the nation’s 600,000+ Catholics. The fact of the matter is that before the revolution, there were as many as 3,000,000 Catholics in Russia - ethnic Germans, Poles, Lithuanians…
If today some believe that their presence is a threat to be excoriated, these same folks should consider how likely suppressing their Church will lead to the Catholic faithful there simply abandoning the practice of religion or entering Orthodoxy. Dare I suggest that these Catholics are not the biggest threat to Orthodox hegemony, and there are far bigger fish to fry?
I give you “Ты об’емлишь меня“!
David Bennett
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