Word: orthodox
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Greek Orthodox monk. I am here as a research assistant to the Abbot of my monastery, who is a visiting scholar at the Divinity School...
Because we are traditionalist Orthodox clergymen (belonging to that part of the Church of Greece which adheres to the Julian Calendar), we maintain the clerical dress (black cassock, uncut hair and beard) of the Orthodox clergy throughout Europe--even though our monastery, a dependency of a large Greek monastic house, is in the United States. It has been our view that geography should not compromise tradition, especially when one is in a country which champions religious freedom...
...snowballs on the street three or four times. Not a day has passed that we have not been ridiculed and mocked on the streets, while walking between various university libraries. Notwithstanding the fact that the Abbot of the monastery is recognized as one of the best-cre-dentialed traditionalist Orthodox writers in the U.S. (and was recently cited as such in a major religious publication in Greece), most of the people with whom we have interacted at the University are either too busy laughing at us or too preoccupied with our appearance to engage him in conversation...
...Peter's Square on May 13, 1981? The Kremlin certainly had a motive for wanting Pope John Paul II out of the way. Since his election in 1978, the Pontiff has shown particular concern for the plight of Communist bloc Catholics, and also set about improving ties with Eastern Orthodox churches in the region. Moscow has long been suspicious of any such religious activity, fearing that it might stir up nationalist sentiments, especially in the Baltic republics and the Western Ukraine. But what must have irked the Kremlin leadership even more was the Pontiffs strong support for Solidarity, the independent...
...broad range of options available to the KGB is evident in its control of religious groups. Arrests of Russian Orthodox priests are rare because the party holds the mostly docile church hierarchy firmly in its grip. Protestant believers, mainly Baptists, Pentecostalists and Adventists, who refuse to register with the state, are routinely arrested and sent to labor camps. In the Roman Catholic republic of Lithuania, where clergy arrests might rouse nationalist feelings, three priests have been killed since October 1980 under suspicious circumstances; one was apparently pushed into the path of a speeding truck. Thousands of Soviet Jews who have...