https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OYP2mVKYyWo
1 hour 18 minutes
from 39:21 to 41:17
Evan Stern: ...once you see it, you see it everywhere.
Like the latest synodal statement about the things that are happening in Russia — they don't have the teeth to say: "communism." They use a euphemism. They say, "dangerous 20th century ideologies" or something. They're completely neutered. They can't even name the demonic force that they claim to stand against. Because it would cause too much of a rift in the former Soviet Union.
Sbn Nektarios: [ROCOR had an 80-year witness against Sergianism. MP is on the cusp of canonizing Sergius Stragorodsky. It will be interesting to see what ROCOR-MP does about that. paraphrased ~jh]
Evan Stern: I actually got a chance to ask Fr. Dcn. Psarev about that in person and I said, "it seems like they're going to canonize Sergius pretty soon." And he said, "I don't doubt that they will." And my question was, "how will you teach at Jordanville when we have all of our modern saints who are, — I mean there is no gray area here, again — Sergius of sorry memory. He is a traitor. He is an agent of the devil." And he said, "Well, we will respect their decision, but we won't agree with it."
And that again, it's just we've returned to this pragmatic church. This is the pragmatism of Vatican II in Orthodoxy.
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