Word: patriarchalism
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...made them more Russian than White, their children more Red than White. The homeland had mellowed, too. To prove it, Shanghai's Soviet consul general, hulking Nicholas S. Ananiev, gave a reception for emigre clergymen, showed them pictures of the election in Moscow of Metropolitan Alexei as Patriarch of all Russia...
Pope Pius XII last week challenged the unholy alliance between Atheist Joseph Stalin and his tame churchman, the Patriarch Alexei of Moscow, head of the Orthodox Church in Russia. The Pope charged that Russia was ruthlessly stamping out Roman Catholicism in Ruthenia, implied that Alexei was Stalin's eager catspaw...
...word encyclical devoted wholly to the situation in Ruthenia, a Czechoslovak province ceded to Russia last June, the Pope asked: "Who doesn't know that Patriarch Alexei, recently elected by the dissident Russian bishops, directed a letter to-the Ruthenian Church, which wants nothing to do with the dissidents, in which he openly preached desertion from the Catholic Church...
...Pope's encyclical highlighted an even more important global aspect of the Stalin-Alexei alliance, which had recently reached imperiously into the U.S. Last month the Russian Orthodox hierarchy of the U.S. and Canada, who cut loose from Moscow in 1917, met in Chicago. They heard the Patriarch Alexei's delegate demand submission to Moscow. In pious language, they told him to peddle his Moscovite peanuts elsewhere. Metropolitan Theophilus of San Francisco, a stout believer in freedom for conscience and for God's church, told Alexei to repeal his Ukase 94 of last February. Key section...
...Asia Minor, Rome's age-old desire to gather in the Eastern Orthodox Church was reflected in the selection of red-turbaned Patriarch Gregory Peter XV of the Armenian Catholics. He joined Cardinal Ignatius Tappouni of Syria, elevated in 1935, as the second red hat from the Eastern Rite since 1472. With Russia now claiming the rest of Armenia from Turkey, the Pope's promotion of the Russian-born Patriarch had added significance...