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...simply proceed toward unity and NATO membership and say, "This is what we are going to do, whatever Gorbachev...
...this moment no one can predict the future of the Soviet Union. I do hope Gorbachev will succeed in his reform policies. I sincerely hope that. Because perestroika means pluralism, and that means opening. This is what the Soviet Union needs; otherwise it will not be in a position to solve its problems, neither those of the nationalities nor those of the economy. I think the West should assist the Soviet Union in this process. Of course, we have to do it in a reasonable, businesslike way; after all, we are talking about a proud country. But we have...
...Patriarch draws immediate authority and credibility from his election by a 330-member Local Council with a bishop, priest and lay delegate representing each of the nation's dioceses. Aleksy will reign over a flock of some 50 million members (in contrast to 19 million Communists). As Mikhail Gorbachev fully recognizes, Orthodoxy could provide a unique source of continuity, stability and morality amid escalating Soviet turmoil. Enthroned at age 61 with life tenure, Patriarch Aleksy is quite likely to be a national leader long after Gorbachev leaves power...
Aleksy, like all bishops who emerged during the Khrushchev-Brezhnev period, had to bite his lip and say nothing about the constant persecution of the church, but he managed to avoid outright dishonesty. A pre-election article by Aleksy in a church journal mingled traditional views with support of Gorbachev's reforms and ecological activism. In a sermon last month at the Valaam monastery, Aleksy eloquently lamented communism's mass murder of clergy and destruction of churches...
...came as a relief both within and outside the Russian Orthodox Church. He displayed his conservative, stand-fast views before the election in a newspaper interview, contending that "it's naive to expect revolutionary changes in the church in comparison to those which took place after the election of Gorbachev." Moreover, notes Jane Ellis of England's Keston College, Filaret's election would have sent "the strongest possible anti-Catholic signal to the Vatican" just six months after Gorbachev visited the Pope. The Kiev prelate's hostility to Rome has greatly complicated the bitter fight in the western Ukraine over...