Posted on 01/24/2012 10:06:00 AM PST by marshmallow
THE ghost of communism has resurfaced in Bulgaria, with 11 of the country's 15 top bishops exposed as former secret police agents, shaking the Bulgarian Orthodox Church and its image just as it readies to choose a new patriarch.
A list published by the parliamentary archives committee has singled out 97-year-old Patriarch Maxim and three other bishops as the only members of the church's top authority, the Holy Synod, not to have collaborated.
The other 11 were listed as agents of the most notorious part of the Darzhavna Sigurnost, the political police who spied on people for suspected "anti-communist behaviour".
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I have my suspicions about some American bishops.
Is it really THAT hard to understand?
Oh yes, I'm sure the folks who write such things about the Bulgarian Bishops would have been much braver under torture or while watching their families be killed before their eyes.
Sure, just ask them. They'll tell you!
I have my suspicions about some American bishops.
Yeah well, that's a little harder to explain now, isn't it.
Our Archbishop Kyril was Bulgarian. He managed to escape to Switzerland and eventually made his way to the US. He was personal friends with Pope John Paul II, due to their time in school in Switzerland. When he was still in Bulgaria, +Kyril hid many of Bulgaria’s Jews in the monastery during WWII. A few years before his death, the Bulgarian Orthodox Church attempted to lure him back to become the new patriarch there. I was blessed to have known him most of my life. He spoke frequently about how corrupt things were over there and how much organized crime there was.
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