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Q and A Spring 2026

We do not want to go to Rome, Constantinople or Moscow, we want to go to Heaven! We want Archpastors, not Archpoliticians!

The Nature of the Church and its Governance

Q: With the schism between Greeks and Russians, some say that the Orthodox Church does not exist. What would you say?

A: Of course, it does not exist and never has done. But this is nothing to do with the current political dispute, created by the CIA. The words ‘the Orthodox Church’ are abstract, but the principle of the Church is concrete, it is the Incarnation. The Church it is not an abstract idea, as in the minds of Protestants, it is real in places. Concretely, we think of the real Local Orthodox Churches, of Orthodox Christianity, of the Orthodox Faith. Such was the situation in the New Testament, with the Local Churches in Corinth, Ephesus, Colossae, Philippi, Galatia, Thessaloniki, Rome. Today there are sixteen Local Churches, double the number 150 years ago. In 150 years’ time, that number may well double again to 32 Local Churches, in any case reaching at least 24. What is One and creates Unity is the Orthodox Faith, shared by all the Local Churches.

Q: Can the Church be corrupt?

A: If you see ‘The Church’ as a group of upper middle-class Anglican bishops appointed by an atheist or Hindu Prime Minister, as I think you do, then it is corrupt. However, that is not the Church, that is a mere human organisation, founded by a corrupt and evil King out of lust and some of whose properties were ‘privatised’ and handed out to his cronies, and which is run by accountants. In reality, the Church is the Body of Christ (in the words of the Apostle Paul), and it is run by the Holy Spirit. This can be seen clearly in the case of the Church in heaven.

As for the Church on earth, I think it can be likened to a huge Ship, carrying to Paradise those who sail in it, the captain, the navigator, the senior officers, mechanics, cooks, waiters, cleaners, plumbers, doctors, as well as the very many passengers, who are baptised. Some of these help the crew greatly, some do not, in fact they hinder. Sometimes some passengers decide to leave the Ship on lifeboats, which get lost or sink, others follow in the wake for a time and some from them get back on. Some passengers jump off, others come in new boats and climb on board. If the latest captain is bad, so what? Sooner or later the Owner of the Ship will come and change course, appointing a new captain. In the end, all are only passengers, who follow the Owner.

Q: Is the Church hierarchical or congregational?

A: If you are Roman Catholic, especially a traditionalist, then it is hierarchical. If you are Protestant, then it is congregational. If you are a normal Orthodox Christian, it is both. However, if you are some sort of old calendarist / ROCOR convert and you dream of dressing in clerical or monastic garments and hats and having a long beard or, if a woman, of dressing as a nun, then it is hierarchical. And if you are a liberal modernist, then it is congregational and you ignore and despise bishops.

Q: What happens in a Church if there is a shortage of suitable candidates for the episcopate?

A: We recently had the visit of a Romanian bishop. He told us how he and the Metropolitan are the only bishops in the Metropolia of Iasi of over 1,200 parishes. The Metropolia is in fact run by 15 deans, married priests. This system of delegation works very well. And that is in a Local Church which has a lot of active monasteries.

I remember in Moscow in 2007 being told that the Russian Church had 2,000 candidates to be bishops. This was quite untrue. They had in reality 2,000 single men who had an interest in a career in the Church. In fact, over 300 of the 2,000 became bishops. The results have been catastrophic and many have already had to be defrocked; many others will be. Single men with an interest in the Church do not make bishops! When will this common sense fact be understood in Moscow and Constantinople?

If there is a shortage of good bishops, then delegate! Thus, in the Russian Church exhausted bishops rush around at the end of Lent and in Holy Week doing long unction services, whereas in the Romanian Church priests can do unction services every month, if they wish. Such things are delegated. Only ordinations are not delegated.

Q: What sorts of bishop are there in your experience?

A: There are the real bishops, who are shepherds and love their flock, who loves them: St Spyridon, St Nicholas, St Nectarios, St John of Shanghai. The rest are lovers of themselves – administrators, narcissists, intellectuals, careerists, thieves, sadists, bullies, sexually disturbed homosexuals, pedophiles and psychopaths.

Q: What is more important, frequent confession or frequent communion?

A: Both. There should be frequent communion and confession, together with frequent prayer, the prayer of the heart and prayer from the prayerbook. This is different from the heterodox world, which has only frequent communion.

Q: Ever since the incidents in Amsterdam in 2022, the Russian Church has been known as ‘the Persecuting Church’ and lost most of its credit. How did a Persecuted Church become a Persecuting Church?

A: Persecution certainly was not present until 2008, when Patriarch Alexis was there. Then tens of millions of newly baptised and sometimes very zealous people and clergy worked enthusiastically hand in hand to rebuild the Church. The change came afterwards, with the spirit of centralisation (an old Soviet hangover), Papalisation (all those visits to the Vatican were a sign of this), bureaucratisation (the paperwork which was suddenly demanded by the Centre and detested by the priests), the military-style clericalisation (literal uniformity in dress, but also in political opinions), the closeness to the State and the Armed Forces, ‘blessing’ tanks, bombs and guns, and the insistence on rigid discipline, ritualisation and the use of archaic and little understood Slavonic.

All I can say is that the Persecuting Church developed in a process between 2008 and 2022. Let us take the mid-point of 2015 as a symbolic date for its appearance. And the essential reason for all this is that by then State politics, raison d’etat, had been put above pastoral love and above the support for Orthodox teaching. Schism followed. Schism always follows politics, that is why we speak of party (part) politics.

Q: Has your parish ever produced a monk?

A: Yes, we had one. However, he went to a monastery in the USA, where he was ‘touched up’ by a monk. He fled and came to complain to the bishop here, who had already turned down the offer of a free monastery, which had involved me in a lot of hard, but wasted, work. That bishop in turn made homosexual advances to the monk. The result was that the monk fled from him too. Later, others fled.

Q: Where do you think ROCOR is heading today?

A: In 2007 it had the opportunity of bringing its liturgical and ascetic heritage to help in renewing the life of the ex-Soviet Russian Church and the Local Churches in the Diaspora, as the late Metropolitan Kallistos (Ware) insightfully urged. Instead of making a positive contribution, however, ROCOR gradually began developing into a negative exclusive sect and cult, especially after 2017.

Having only a very small ethnic flock, it began recruiting crazies. The rest, as they say, is history. Therefore, today its American Synod is already in schism from most Local Churches, for which it has expressed hatred, not love. After its recent meeting at its former US church in Munich, donated to it by the CIA, I fear it may turn altogether into a Californian homosexual and pedophile sect. See: https://www.bing.com/search?q=pokrovtruth+fr+seraphim&FORM=PVSBDF&PC=PV02

The Undivided World and the Zionist World

Q: How did the Western world come to dominate the rest of the world until quite recently?

A: This is the question raised, but only vaguely answered, by the great Roman Catholic cultural historian and philosopher, Christopher Dawson (+ 1970), the English Berdyayev, in such books as Religion and the Rise of Western Culture. Here he writes that Western supremacy comes from a restless spirit, a spiritual energy, ‘a spirit that strives to change the world’. In Orthodoxy, we know what that spirit is; as a Catholic, he did not.

Before the eleventh century there was a multipolar world, as the Pentarchy of five Patriarchates was, which was not dominated by any one centre. We can see this in the life of the saintly English King Alfred the Great, who visited Europe, sent alms to Jerusalem, which he never, quite unthinkably, tried to seize from the Muslims. He also sent alms to India and despatched a mission to explore the countries around the White Sea.

Multipolarity is a sign of diversity and of unity in diversity, the sign of the Holy Trinity. The late historian Robert Moore describes in detail how from the early eleventh century on, any diversity was persecuted, in his The Formation of a Persecuting Society: Authority and Deviance in Western Europe, 950–1250.

Multipolarity was gradually destroyed by what we can call Zionism or Universalism. The First West, the West of the first millennium, was pre-Zionist, that is, diverse. The symbol and reality of this Zionism is the filioque. That heresy, adopted in the late eighth century as an imperial ideology in what is now western Germany and spread slowly until it was promulgated in Rome in 1014, is anti-Trinitarian. It dePersonalises the Trinity, making the Father and the Son into One and the Holy Spirit the mere link between them (as portrayed in many a heretical icon). This is why the Church insists on the Holy Trinity.

To the Vatican it was rather irrelevant, as the Unitarian Head of their ‘Church’ is the Pope of Rome, whom all must obey. Protestant Unitarians are like freemasons, who believe in One Architect-God. Thus, Western Europe moved away from the ascetic and grace-filled towards the legal and the moral, as seen, for instance, in Roman Catholic ‘days of obligation’ and Protestant puritanism.

Q: What is Zionism, in theological terms?

A: Zionism means universalism that is, globalism, the movement towards One World Dictatorship, homogeneity, unity without diversity, overseen by oligarchs. These think they are infallible, superior to those whom they consider to be lesser human-beings. Trotskyism is a classic example. Today’s extraterrestrial (or is that demonic?) ‘Muskism’ is another. Zionism can only exist outside the Holy Trinity, which is the principle of unity in diversity.

Here it is important to state that Zionism is by no means necessarily Jewish. By far the majority of Zionists are not Jews. Indeed, a great many Jews are anti-Zionists. For example, the last Non-Zionist US presidents were Eisenhower and Kennedy, that is, over sixty years ago. Since then, all US presidents have been Zionists, whether Democrat or Republican, but none has been a Jew. One of the greatest British Zionists was the psychopathic Churchill – he had no Jewish blood, despite what absurd conspiracy theories claim. His ancestor John Churchill, the first Duke of Marlborough, was also a Zionist. Other British Zionists include Cromwell, Rhodes, Thatcher and Blair, among many others.

Moreover, even among Jewish Zionists, there is huge variety of individuals, of left and right and nothing at all, for example, Rothschild and Marx, Trotsky and Zuckerberg, Freud and Spielberg, Sarkozy and Zelensky, in the UK Maxwell, Mandelson, Starmer (by his wife), Straw, the Milibands and Polanski, or in the USA, Epstein, Witkoff, Kushner and Cohen (Trump’s mentor and friends).

Some homosexual politicians are also Zionists, for example, Mandelson (and many other Blairites such as N. Brown), Lord Ali, the Dutch Rutte, several in the US-run Baltic States, and the US Bessent, Graham and many others.

Some pedophiles are also Zionists and are very active in the media, for example in the gagging-ordered, heavily censored (‘editorially controlled’) BBC. This perhaps should be called the ABCC (the Anti-British Broadcasting Corporation), as it appears to be controlled by Zionist journalists and pedophiles too numerous to name here, for Savile, Harris and Edwards are only the tip of the iceberg.

Today parts of the USA appear to be ruled by Zionist oligarchs and perverts, the so-called Epstein class, the majority of whom are not Jewish, but who are globalists. They run the banks, the oil corporations, Silicon Valley, the nuclear-armed military, Wall Street, Hollywood, the PR industry, the legacy media, the social media and pseudo-academia. They operate by sanctions and tariffs, instead of by encouragement and development. To drain the US swamp and not to be sucked into it must be very difficult.

Contemporary Wars

Q: Would you say that the wars in the Ukraine and Iran form one single World War?

A: Yes, but it must be understood that this World War is not only a military War and that it began decades ago. Indeed, for 35 years, since 1991, the West has been embarked on a war against the world, which has been composed of a series of campaigns to promote a ‘forever’ war in several phases, both military and social. This began in Iraq and Serbia, spread to Afghanistan, created the chaos in Libya and Syria, included the campaign against the anti-globalist Brexit, the social engineering attempts to enforce the manmade climate change and net zero myths and to poison the weak and elderly with manmade covid, and then the new phases of this one single war, in the Ukraine and Iran.

Is Today’s Rome Washington or Moscow?

Q: The US Secretary for War, Hegseth, has on his chest a tattoo in the form of a red cross, surrounded by four smaller crosses. It looks Orthodox. Is it?

A: No. This US Secretary for War wears the crusader cross. He has, after all, like the crusaders, tried to destroyed to invade West Asia and Eastern Europe. These crusades have since 1096 become worldwide. Thus, President Bush also launched a ‘crusade’ against Iraq, as he publicly declared, and that is why the current US Secretary of War wears a crusader cross tattoo. He follows a very long history.

It is all logical. Just as the Papacy used excommunications and indulgences, so his successors, the US President in his Capitol and the EU Commissars, use sanctions and tariffs. However, those ‘infallible’ and ‘exceptional’ Fascist crusaders, who are above the law, not only cannot win in the Ukraine against a Superpower like Russia, they cannot even win against a regional power like Iran. Washington is not Rome.

Q: Is Moscow the Third Rome?

A: When Archbishop Nikitas was at last appointed Archbishop of the Greek Thyateira Archdiocese in Great Britain in 2019, in order to save a Greek ethnic group from rapidly dying out, he gave a radio interview to the Spectator. In this he stated that the Moscow the Third Rome idea is absurd, that there is no Third Rome, only a First and Second Rome! In other words, he was only a mouthpiece for Phanariot ideology. As one very senior and outspoken (in private) Greek cleric from the Patriarchate of Constantinople said to me of his own Patriarch last year: ‘We are waiting for the toilet to flush’. His words, not mine.

Rome, First, Second or Third, are all an absurd and fatal distraction, worse still, a delusion and those who believe in it are delusional, whether in Washington or Moscow. We want Jerusalem, not Rome. Romes are the downfall of the Church. We do not want to go to some Rome, we want to go to Heaven. We want Archpastors, not Archpoliticians. The so-called First, Second and Third Romes are irrelevant in Church life, as they all fell, in 1054, 1453 and 1917 respectively. Why keep harping on about the fallen and disappeared past? Neither Moscow, nor Constantinople, nor Rome are of any importance or help now, as we face, potentially, the end of the world.

Hatred of Russia

Q: Why do so many politicians hate Russia, but not other Orthodox countries like Romania, Greece, Bulgaria? King Charles, for example, loves Romania, and owns properties there, tourists love Greece, yet many hate Russia.

A: The elite of the Western world hates Russia and not other Orthodox countries, because the latter are small, poor and weak, unlike Russia, which is vast, rich and powerful. In other words, it is all about jealousy and greed for resources.

The British elite especially hates Russia, because in October 1917 Russian-language, Marxist ideologues overthrew the masonic MI6 regime imposed on Russia by the British between December 1916 and October 1917. This is why they made up the Litvinenko, Salisbury and now El Money cases as cheap propaganda. In the same way, the American elite hates Cuba and Iran, because they are the only ones who successfully overthrew CIA-imposed regimes.

As regards British Russophobia, see in greater detail: The Genesis of Russophobia in Great Britain from 1815 to 1841: A Study of the Interaction of Policy and Opinion by John Howes Gleason, Cambridge, Harvard University Press, London Oxford University Press 1950.

President Putin

Q: President Putin seems to be very cold. Do you think he is?

A: I have only been able to observe him one in real life, in 2007, but I think his apparent coldness is because he is probably autistic, that is, he is someone who is brilliant at systems, but perhaps lacks people skills. He is an ultra-cautious diplomat and lawyer, who does everything by the book. He has an excellent memory and is brilliant at chess and German, but he presents a very blurred image of Russia.

Nobody quite knows where he stands. He used to be a devout Westerner, a protégé of Yeltsin, who wanted to join NATO. He has acknowledged publicly his many mistakes of naivety after 2014. Many blame him for the Ukrainian situation and not acting then, which would have been far less destructive of life and property. His present indecisive diplomacy is frustrating to some and makes him seem weak and naïve. As a result, he has led Russia into full-blown nationalism. Neither his previous Westernism, nor his present nationalism are Orthodox. We are still obliged to wait for Russia to move out of both these deviations, Westernism and nationalism, towards Christ.

Q: Who could replace Putin in this year’s Russian elections?

A: The elections in Russia next September are Parliamentary elections, not Presidential. President Putin will stay. But the influence of the former Westerner and now strong Russian nationalist Medvedev may become a lot stronger. Rightly or wrongly, he is seen as strong and decisive. Others have unflattering views about him. We shall see.

Personal

Q: Do you hope to live a long life?

A: I hope so, as there is still so much to do, or so it seems to me, but what I hope is completely irrelevant. God decides. Perhaps tomorrow I will be gone! As Chaucer wrote: The life so short, the craft so long to learn.

 

 

The Saints of Exning in Suffolk

Exning is a village in Suffolk, 2 miles north-east of New­market, 11 miles south-east of Ely, 14 miles east of Cambridge and 14 miles west of Bury St Edmunds. Its name may go back to the Celtic Iceni (pronounced Ikeni) tribe, who lived in what became Norfolk and North Suffolk. They may be recalled by other place-names on their southern border like the local Icknield Way, Ickworth and Ixworth, and Iken on the Suffolk coast. Exning too may have been a centre for the Iceni, famous for Queen Boudicca, who in the first century AD fought back against the sadistic Romans.

Whatever its origin, by the seventh century Exning was a well-fortified, strategic location. From the north it was protected by the low-lying, swampy fenlands and from the south by the low hills and then the forests and rivers of southern East Anglia. In the gap from the west it was protected by a huge manmade earthwork, today known as the ‘Devils Dyke’, though originally called ‘the Great Ditch’. This defensive earthwork, seven miles long, was built some time in the mid-sixth century as a border wall to protect the East Anglians from peoples to the west.

The Apostle of East Anglia, now Suffolk, Norfolk and eastern Cambridgeshire, is St Felix. Coming from Burgundy in Gaul (France) in 633, he sailed to Canterbury and then across to the Roman fortress by Felixstowe, which is named after him – ‘stowe’ means monastery – to enlighten the pagans. He opened his activities by setting up churches and monasteries near royal halls. One of these was in Rendlesham, upriver from the monastery in Felixstowe in the south-east, another was in Blythburgh, near the port of Dunwich, and to the north-east in Loddon and Reedham.

Around the coast, o the north-west of East Anglia there was another mission centre in Babingley and in the south-west was another in Soham and nearby in the stronghold of Exning. Here there was another royal hall located by the strategic border of East Anglia and it was here that Bishop Felix baptised the King of the East Angles, Anna, and his family. All of them, Jurmin of Blythburgh (+ 653), Audrey (Etheldreda) of Ely (+ 679), Saxburgh of Ely (+ 700), Wendred of March (?) and probably a grand-daughter, Withburgh of Dereham (+ 743), were to become saints.

Even today there is a holy well named after St Wendred in Exning (and also a road) and its water was famed locally among believers for its healing powers. Nobody can remember it freezing over, nor can anybody remember it drying up. It was in the water of this well that Wendred, Audrey and their siblings were baptised. It would seem certain that the original church in Exning was founded by Bishop Felix. Indeed, that church has always been dedicated to St Martin of Tours, who was much venerated by Bishop Felix and throughout Gaul, as well as in Canterbury.

Only in the early thirteenth century was Exning taken over in importance by a ‘new market’, what is now the town of Newmarket, first recorded in 1228, just to the south. The importance of this ‘new market’ may have come about as the result of the many pilgrims who came walking from London by the Icknield Way, whose route is now followed by the A11. They were heading for the shrine of Our Lady of Walsingham in north-west Norfolk, where the Mother of God had appeared to Edith the Fair in 1061, warning of hardships to come under the Norman Yoke.

 

 

Resisting the Servants of Antichrist: Working for the Freedom and Unity of Old and New Orthodox Churches

You will know the Truth and the Truth will set you free

John: 8,32

Introduction: Patriotism Defeats Globalism

The enemy of local Patriotism has always been Globalist Imperialism. That means the hegemonic rule and tyrannical domination of the world by one monopolistic power. This is known as Zionism. And if we are speaking about Imperialism since 1945, we are speaking about Americanisation, also known as Globalisation, meaning Zionisation. This is the One World Dictatorship of Antichrist, which his servants have been working towards for ten centuries and was first attempted by the universalist claims of the Popes of Rome.

Today, however, we are entering a new period, that of a world without a monopoly of power, a world with at least nine different centres of power and influence, China, Russia, India, the USA, Brazil, Japan, Germany, Iran, South Africa. As a result, we are speaking about the Re-Sovereignisation of the lands of the world after the defeat of Globalism by Patriotism, described below.

Political ReSovereignisation

Today we see that the USA is being forced to leave North Asia (Eurasia, known as Russia), abandoning its outmatched, outclassed and bankrupt Neo-Nazi proxy, the Kiev regime, which absurdly attempted to destroy Russia by sacrificing the lives of millions of its own citizens to the Zionist US elite.

Today we see that the USA is being forced to leave North-West Asia (the Western European Peninsula), abandoning to Eurasia the hated Globalist, illegal puppet elites the US put into power in the Neo-Nazi controlled NATO/EU countries.

Today we see that the USA is being forced to leave West Asia (‘the Middle East’), abandoning the Zionist settler state and its corrupt and tyrannical Gulf puppets to the Great Power of West Asia, which is, and always has been, Iran.

Today we see that the USA is being forced to leave East Asia (China), abandoning its local puppet elites in South Korea, Japan, Taiwan, the Philippines, and withdrawing its missiles and troops from there.

Today we see that the USA is being forced to leave South Asia (the Indian subcontinent), which depends on Iranian and Russian energy to survive.

Today we see that the USA is being forced to leave South-East Asia (Australia and all Oceania), abandoning its absurdly expensive and quite unnecessary local NATO, called AUKUS.

Today we see that the USA is being forced to leave Africa, as its lands at last gain the courage to throw off colonial control.

Today we see that the USA is being forced to leave Latin America, having lost all support for the conquest of Venezuela, Cuba, Greenland and Canada.

Church ReSovereignisation

‘Those who put the Patriarch into power in Constantinople will remove him’.

Eldress Galaktia of Crete (+ 2021)

In Church terms, this means that the USA will also be forced to abandon its puppet in Constantinople. This it has controlled ever since, in one its first criminal acts, the CIA kidnapped the righteous confessor Patriarch Maximos V in 1948 and took him into exile in Switzerland in the presidential plane of the atomic mass murderer Truman. As a result, the CIA tried to exercise its anti-canonical control over all the Local Orthodox Churches through the deliberate Zionist misinterpretation of the Church canons, notably Canon 28 of the Council of Chalcedon, thus flattering anti-Christian Hellenist racism.

Freedom at long last for the Patriarchate of Constantinople would mean that the Russian Church would not have to try and be Zionist either. For, equally absurdly, Zionist, Soviet Moscow has in rivalry also tried to lay claim to universal domination of all the Local Orthodox Churches in the same way as Zionist Constantinople. Now they both harbour the same imperialist, that is, anti-Christian, anti-Catholic and anti-local, ambitions. The restoration of Russian Church governance through its Re-Sovereignisation would be possible. But for that it must overcome its stiflingly bureaucratic Soviet-style Papalised centralisation.

However, the corruption of the Russian Church, its Papalisation, Statisation, nationalisation, clericalisation, militarisation, bureaucratisation and ritualisation, goes back before 1917. For even in 1917 the vast majority of its bishops betrayed the Orthodox Tsar. But the heroic confessor and martyr Patriarch Tikhon did not. Before that, it was for 200 years enslaved as a Department of State on the Protestant model by a Tsar who was Protestant in all but name. Any number of episcopal quenchers of the Spirit, ‘good administrators’ (the words of Metr Antony of Kiev (1863-1936)), now called ‘effective managers’, were found then, as now.

The governance of the Russian Church is Papalised (they adore the Pope of Rome and go there as often as possible), controlled by a Sovietised senior clerical caste, for now schismatically out of communion with other Local Churches, is top heavy, irrelevant to the people and above all has been unfaithful to the New Martyrs and Confessors. The New Martyr Tsar Nicholas knew this 120 years ago and prayed for the spiritual renewal of the clergy. The best of the Russian emigration like St John of Shanghai knew it too. But freedom and restoration have still not come. Soviet-style nationalism is not patriotism, for it makes Russia hated.

Conclusion: The Suicide of Psychopaths Brings Life to Others

A few days ago, the psychopathic and foul-mouthed Trump, the master of vulgarity and bad taste, resembling the mafia boss of a gangster Empire more than a President of a democratic republic, threatened that a ‘whole civilization will die tonight’. In his malignant narcissist folly mixed with dementia, the main representative of the anti-family Epstein class threatened to kill 5,000 years of Iranian Civilisation. This was just like another American narcissistic bully, a spoilt brat and virulent supporter of Trump, only a few of whose effeminate and sycophantic clergy had the guts to resist. He threatened to kill 50 years of English Orthodox Civilisation, its foundations in the distant past and threatened to destroy its families today.

In fact, both shot themselves in both feet, Trump, by losing in the Ukraine and then in Iran, the bishop by creating a schism against Orthodoxy and then against English identity. Trump is isolated from the rest of the world, he has no allies and has blasphemed against Christ, so he will finish badly. The bishop has isolated himself from fifteen Local Churches and will be isolated within his own, once it comes out of its schism against the Greek Orthodox world. Once his own Local Church is no longer distracted by politics, he too will find himself totally isolated. Thus, we successfully resist the servants of Antichrist, when they commit spiritual suicide.

 

 

 

Can the Suicide of the Western World Be Stopped?

It may be dangerous to be America’s enemy, but to be America’s friend is fatal.

Henry Kissinger

Nightmares

Last year a young Ukrainian refugee, aged 27, came to us. She told us of her fiancé whose job had been drone-making. One day one of them exploded in his hands. All that remained of the young man’s body was a pair of legs. Last week another Ukrainian from the west of the Ukraine came to us and told us how in his city there is a curfew from 9.00 pm till 6.00 am every night, when trains arrive with the corpses of thousands of dead soldiers to be buried by night.

The old cemeteries are full and the new ones too. Such is the nightmare in the Ukraine, now being repeated in Gaza, the West Bank, the Lebanon, Iran and Israel. It is a nightmare of injustices and death. The last 112 years have been dominated by injustices, starting with those that occurred during and after the two World Wars. The Western elites caused them; all peoples suffered from them. The time has come for retribution and the correction of injustices.

Prophecies and the Decline of the Western World

We have entered the times of Biblical prophecies, when armies are massing in Biblical lands, and the times of the prophecies of Orthodox elders. However, all prophecies are conditional on repentance. So far we have seen no signs of repentance on the part of those who have begun their wars of choice against both Russia and Iran. In the wings is China, which has had its own difficulties with the West and may have been mentioned as ‘Sinim’ in the Book of Isaiah.

Extremists refer to Babylon and Armageddon, the prophecies of the Prophet Daniel, prophecies from the only Prophetic book in the New Testament, the Book of Revelation (the Apocalypse), and prophecies made by recent saints regarding what is now Turkey. We should be careful. There are those who through ignorance or through malevolence misinterpret such prophecies. All are conditional, all should be read through the prism of Church life.

The USA has much accelerated its own decline, decadence, bankruptcy and death through its many futile and unprovoked wars of death and destruction, for example, against Korea, Vietnam, Iraq, Afghanistan, but above all more recently against Russia, Yemen and Iran. Its vassals, the Ukraine, Western Europe and the Gulf emirates and sheikhdoms, are committing suicide together with it. It is always better not to ally yourself with a suicide.

Japan, South Korea and Taiwan are just beginning to understand this and may yet save themselves, like rats trying to flee the sinking US ship. On the other hand, the feudal and anti-patriotic Globalist Western European elite still plans to turn the welfare States that it inherited into warfare States, just like their beloved Nazis. Only if that elite is changed, by election or by popular revolt, even at this eleventh hour, is there still any lingering hope of salvation.

We have seen that ‘Democracies’ are plutocracies and oligarchies, which are fundamentally feudal and have strong Fascist tendencies. And we have seen that ‘Autocracies’ are the still sovereign countries with people who patriotically resist Western Globalist oligarchy, colonisation and exploitation and retain their national identity. This is why throughout the twentieth century the Democracies set about destroying the remaining Autocracies, as in 1917.

Narcissism

Those who did not know the American bishop have learned that malignant narcissists like Trump do have superficial charm, but suffer from pompous and fantasist self-importance, with greed for money and power, stimulation, lies, manipulation. They also suffer from the inability to feel remorse and guilt and the pathological need to blame others for everything in self-justification. When they have lost, as they always do, they always walk away, declaring victory.

They disdain empathy, honesty, compassion and self-sacrifice, all the values of Christ, Whom they only pretend to confess. That is why they turn the Persecuted Church into the Persecuting Church, and are so aggressive, anti-missionary, anti-woman and anti-family, and may be sexually disturbed, like Hegseth, Graham or Bessent in Trump’s USA. Their Creed is: ‘Me, me, me’. And that is why they have no room in their lives for any others and destroy everything.

 

 

 

 

I Had a Dream: Twelve Days that Would Shake the Orthodox World

Moscow, Wednesday 1st, The Ascension Thursday 2nd, and Friday 3rd June

After the Liturgy for the Leavetaking of Pascha and the resignation of the previous Patriarch, Metropolitan Pavel was elected Patriarch of the Russian Orthodox (ROC). The first act of the Patriarch and his Synod was to rename the Soviet-era ‘Moscow Patriarchate’ ‘the Patriarchate of New Jerusalem and All Russia’ and to move his administration to the New Jerusalem Monastery outside Moscow for deSovietisation. Then the Synod refrocked all who had been defrocked for political reasons by the old regime and cleansed the Church by defrocking ‘the princes of the Church’, placed there by the old regime. These were all the corrupt careerists, thieves and sadists, who had humiliated and persecuted faithful priests and people, the sexually disturbed narcissists, intellectuals, homosexuals, pedophiles and psychopaths who hated married priests, women and children.

After the Ascension Feast Liturgy, Patriarch Pavel set up four new Autocephalous Local Churches. These new Churches were: the Kievska Rus Church (for the new Ukraine), the Belarussian Church, the Baltic Church (for Latvia, Estonia, Lithuania) and the Central Asian Church (for the five stans of Central Asia). Also the OCA (Orthodox Church in America), founded by Moscow, was renamed the NAOC (Northern American Orthodox Church). The ROC gave up its Northern American parishes to the NAOC, those in Oceania to the Patriarchate of Constantinople, those in South America and those in Mexico, Central America and the Caribbean to the Patriarchate of Antioch, and all those in Western Europe and Hungary to the Patriarchate of Romania. They also told the rogue, schismatic ROCOR group that it had one year to follow or be excommunicated.

Finally, the Patriarch also transformed the Church’s Department of External Relations into the Department of Inter-Orthodox Relations. On Friday afternoon the new Patriarch left Moscow and proceeded with his delegation to Istanbul for reconciliation and the renewal of concelebration with the Patriarchate of Constantinople and the other Greek-speaking Churches.

Istanbul, Saturday 4th, Sunday 5th and Monday 6th June

After the resignation of the previous Patriarch, Bishop Petros was elected Patriarch of the Patriarchate of Constantinople. The first act of the Patriarch and his Synod was to cleanse the Church by defrocking ‘the princes of the Church’, placed there by the old regime. These were all the corrupt careerists, freemasons, thieves and sadists, who had humiliated and persecuted faithful priests and people, the sexually disturbed narcissists, intellectuals, homosexuals, pedophiles and psychopaths who hated married priests, women and children. Then Patriarch Petros and his Synod abandoned the fake ‘Church’ in the Ukraine, which had been known as the OCU, and told them to join the canonical Church. It then decided to recognise and concelebrate with the Patriarchate of New Jerusalem and all 20 Autocephalous Churches, including the four new ones.

Finally, all agreed to establish a new Autocephalous Church for Oceania, also giving its parishes in Northern America to the NAOC, giving up parishes in South America, and those in Mexico, Central America and the Caribbean, to the Patriarchate of Antioch, and those in Western Europe and in Hungary to the Patriarchate of Romania, where new Local Churches would be established.

Alexandria, Tuesday 7th and Wednesday 8th June

After the resignation of the previous Patriarch, Bishop Moses was elected Patriarch of the Patriarchate of Alexandria. Born in Uganda, he is the first black Patriarch of Africa. The first act of the Patriarch and his Synod was to cleanse the Church by refrocking those who had been defrocked for political reasons and defrocking ‘the princes of the Church’, placed there by the old regime. These were all the corrupt careerists, freemasons, thieves and sadists, who had humiliated and persecuted faithful priests and people, the sexually disturbed narcissists, intellectuals, homosexuals, pedophiles and psychopaths who hated married priests, women and children. He replaced all these with black African bishops. Then Patriarch Moses decided to move his administration to Nairobi, the Church keeping its ancient title as the Patriarchate of Alexandria and All Africa.

A number of Greek, Cypriot and Russian bishops were appointed to continue to serve in the Patriarchate as consultants. However, the Church is now dominated by African bishops, selected from the local clergy, who are spread out all over the African Continent. A plan has been drawn up to greatly expand their numbers, which is vital to the Africa-wide spread of the Church.

Cisinau, Thursday 9th and Friday 10th June

The Moldovan President greeted Patriarch Pavel of Moscow, Patriarch Daniel of Bucharest, their delegations, and both Metropolitans of the two still separate parts of the Moldovan Church. As nationwide democratic referenda had already been organised on self-determination, the results were announced. Apart from Transnistria in the far east, Gagauzia in the far south and a small area in the far north, which all transferred to Russia, over 80% of Moldovans had voted to join the Republic of Romania, their new region to be called the Autonomous Republic of Bessarabia. Following this decision, Orthodox in Bessarabia joined the Autonomous Bessarabian Metropolia under the Church of Romania. Patriarch Daniel accepted this and agreed to lead the formation of a Western European Orthodox Church and also a Local Church of Carpatho-Rus and Hungary.

In return, Patriarch Daniel ceded Romanian Orthodox parishes in Northern America to the NAOC, the few parishes in Latin America, and the few in Mexico, Central America and the Caribbean to the two new Churches to be organised there by the Patriarchate of Antioch, and those in Oceania to the new Church to be organised there by the Patriarchate of Constantinople.

Bucharest, Saturday 11th and Sunday 12th June, the Great Council and Pentecost

At the new Cathedral of National Salvation in Bucharest, the largest Orthodox Cathedral in the world, all the leaders of the Local Churches held the Great Council of the whole Orthodox Church. There Patriarch Petros announced that his Patriarchal administrative centre would move to Thessaloniki, as the Church of Greece, centred in Athens, was merging with the Patriarchate after the uncanonical British-enforced separation of Greece some 200 years before. Thus, the episcopate of the old Church of Greece joined the renewed and cleansed Patriarchate of Constantinople and All Greece. The Church of Cyprus was represented by its new head, after the resignation in Nicosia of the old Archbishop of Cyprus. The Patriarch of Jerusalem announced a renewed episcopate, dominated by several Palestinian bishops and a Russian and a Romanian bishop.

In this way the Diptychs of the Church were renewed, listing 24 Local Churches in all, nine new. Thus, after the Great Council, on that great day of the Feast, the Feast of Pentecost, Sunday 12th June, all 24 Patriarchs, Metropolitans and Archbishops of the 24 Local Churches, old and new, concelebrated in the Cathedral for the first time: of Constantinople, New Rome and All Greece, of Alexandria and All Africa, of Antioch and All the East, of Jerusalem and All Palestine, of Georgia, of New Jerusalem and All Russia, of Serbia, of Romania and All Bessarabia, of Bulgaria, of Cyprus, of Albania, of Poland, of the Czech Lands and Slovakia, of Northern America, of Macedonia, of Kievska Rus, of Belarus, of the Baltics, of Central Asia, of Western Europe, of Carpatho-Rus and All Hungary, of South America, of Mexico, Central America and the Caribbean, and of Oceania.

 

Delirium in the Western Bunker

The Tax Collector was saved and the Prostitute turned to chastity, but the Pharisee with his boasting was condemned. For the first cried ‘Be merciful’, and the second, ‘Have mercy on me’; but the third said, boasting, I thank Thee, O God’, and the other words of madness.’

The Great Canon of St Andrew of Crete

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One Vengeance For All

The Zionist World Order and the Final Showdown

With the spread of US popular culture, especially through media, advertising, PR, films and music, and not only in Western Europe, in the 1960s and 1970s people began to speak of ‘Americanisation’. This word was later replaced and disguised by the words ‘Globalisation’ and ‘Globalism’. Now the undisguised truth is coming out. This attempt to control the whole world is neither of the above, it is in fact ‘Zionism’, the imposition of the Zionist World Order. This is the transnational ideology (not Jewish, most Zionists are not at all Jews and many Jews are anti-Zionist) that the whole world must be controlled and conquered by atheist supremacy over ‘The Rest’, summed up as ‘West is Best’.

Today, the ‘West is Best’ world and ideology are in turmoil. In the Western-created, armed, trained and financed contemporary Ukraine, Russia has defeated and humiliated Western Europe and demilitarised European NATO, though NATO’s delusional elite still refuses to admit it. And in the Gulf, Iran is finishing it all off, defeating and humiliating the already partially demilitarised USA, cutting off energy supplies to all US allies. Neither Russia, nor Iran wants a ceasefire which the USA is desperate for, after the unprovoked and disastrous Israeli-American attack on Iran. There are other parallels between the conflict in the Ukraine and that in West Asia, between Russia and Iran.

The End of Western Supremacy through the Ukraine and the Persian Gulf

Both Russia and Iran want not a ceasefire in their conflicts but a permanent peace, guaranteeing no more Western invasions and attacks, either directly or through proxies. Tired of repeated Western invasions over the generations, both want security for their region, with the removal of US and NATO bases in Europe and of US and Israeli bases in West Asia (just as China wants the removal of US bases in East Asia). Both wars in the Ukraine and Iran have been caused by the USA. Both Russia and Iran have nationalist-religious ideologies, one called the ‘Russian World’ and the other ‘Shia Islam’.  Both occupy a racial and civilisational space, promising heaven if you die in their name.

Thus, both desire a regional security architecture, one in Europe, the other in West Asia, since both Russia and Iran are tired of being continually attacked and invaded by the West. On the other hand, the once subservient, but now sulking and abandoned Western European vassals of the USA have turned down the ticket for the last voyage of the Titanic offered to them by Trump. They have refused to take part in the Israeli-US Zionist war against Iran, though they still want to destroy Russia. For this Trump has labelled them cowards, as he sees NATO as a worldwide offensive alliance. The Titanic fall of the USA, which we are witnessing today, comes a generation after the fall of the USSR.

The Soviet fall began in 1989 at the Berlin Wall and ended in 1991 with the dissolution of the USSR itself. The fall of the USA began exactly a generation after 1989, in 2014, when the USA violently usurped the democratic government of the Ukraine, and the succeeding Neo-Nazi regime has brought about today’s catastrophe there in 2026. We should see the falls of the USSR and the USA, of the red star and of the white star, as the beginning and the end of one long, single fall of two materialistic empires, which are based entirely on Zionist ideologies, those of Rothschild and of Trotsky. In other words, the fall of the USSR and of the USA are two halves of the same fall.

Today’s Epsteinian fall of the US Empire comes on the 250th anniversary of its foundation. In his study The Fate of Empires, the Middle East expert Sir John Glubb (+ 1986) (https://people.uncw.edu/kozloffm/glubb.pdf) describes how empires generally only survive about 250 years. Now this year, 2026, falls precisely on the 250th anniversary of the foundation of the USA. Coincidence? Perhaps. However, one of his unchallenged and significant conclusions is that all empires fall by overreach, by overextending themselves. This is just like the Roman Empire, which fell by overreach, stretching out to east, west, north and south, and had to be split into two and even four parts.

The Fall of Empires

Thus, the French Empire fell by overreach, bankrupting itself through fighting in Europe, ruinously financing the revolt of English colonists in North America, who were fighting against the German King who had been imposed in England by City of London oligarch-merchants, as he could be manipulated by them, and finally through the megalomaniac Napoleon. Similarly, having conquered Western Europe, the German (Nazi) Empire also fell by megalomaniac overreach, by invading Russia in 1941, instead of invading the oil-rich Middle East (and later repeated this error, its tanks burning on the steppes in 2023, just as its tanks burned almost in exactly the same place in Kursk in 1943).

The British Empire also fell by overreach, starting a war for no national defence reason against Germany in 1914 in Belgium, but out of the megalomaniac desire to control everything and everyone. Having learned nothing from its losses and bankruptcy after 1914 and its subjection to the USA, it deliberately started a second war against Germany in 1939 in Poland, again for no national defence reason, and soon another against Japan. The British Empire was duly humiliated twice, in its greatest military defeats in history, at Dunkirk and Singapore. Later, the Soviet Empire also fell by overreach, occupying Eastern Europe and then Afghanistan, so bankrupting and discrediting itself.

The Western European Union ‘Fourth Reich’ Empire is now also falling by overreach, centralising power and extending into the Ukraine. Thus, it militarised itself to attack Russia, just like the Third Reich, which also was not content with conquering Western Europe. In this way the Brussels-directed EU became just an arm of the Brussels-directed NATO. And today the founder of the EU, the American Empire has fallen by overreach and bankruptcy in distant Ukraine and in Iran, having learned nothing from its routs in Vietnam and Afghanistan about keeping itself to itself and not meddling in the affairs of others. As the deluded there say: ‘We are America, we can do anything’.

In all cases, we see how empires fall through the pride of the hubris of ‘we can do anything’, which is what causes overreach. Their falls are caused by megalomanic and paranoid attempts to control everything everywhere. In all cases we see how empires meet their inevitable destiny of falling, precisely on the path they took in order to avoid that destiny of falling. Like a schoolboy bully, Trump asks others if they want to help him bully others. When they refuse, he tells them in a tantrum that they are cowards and that in fact he does not need their help anyway, but that he will take Greenland just to punish them. And that will be the last nail in the nail-covered NATO coffin.

Secular and Religious Hubris

In our experience such narcissists as President Trump, who lie unconsciously, as they breathe, are full of negativity, nobody can be equal to them, others are always to blame for everything. Trump is a jealous, narcissistic psychopath. That is why he can never admit defeat, even as it stares him in the face and everyone else sees it. Similarly, there are bishops who are narcissistic psychopaths, self-preoccupied bachelor ‘monks’, but not pastors. In other words, they do not love the people, they love only themselves. And there are just such ‘Orthodox’ in the USA, who worship Trump. He is their infallible Pope. He is just like an Orthodox bishop we met, a mini-Trump and fake professor.

The latter surrounded himself with fantasist egomaniacs. He would not attract our priests, who are missionary lorry-drivers, builders and teachers, like the Apostle Paul. Practical priests, we appreciate those who buy buildings and make of them churches for the people as real fathers, and not tyrants and bullies. In that Protestantised ‘Orthodox’ group in America, hubris leads to ‘OneTrueChurchist’ sectarianism, exclusivity, the ‘only we will be saved’ ideology of the pharisees. Outside that group in America, it leads to the Zionism of the Evangelicals, the ‘only we will be saved’ ‘rapture’ ideology of the pharisees. Whatever the label, it is the same delirium in the same bunker.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Towards the Future Local Orthodox Church of Western Europe

The Reconstitution of the Lost Local Church of Western Europe

For over fifty years we have actively prayed and worked for the restoration of the Local Orthodox Church of Western Europe. Unlike future Local Churches in the Americas and Oceania, this would be a spiritual restoration of what existed here, before the 11th century schism from the Orthodox Church by the Latin-speaking Patriarchate of Rome. Clearly, this would not be a literal restoration, which is impossible without a time machine – to think otherwise is the error of Western riters. Thus, in the 11th century, Old Rome fell. Meanwhile, New and Christian Rome had been established as the Capital of the Empire, on the edge of Europe, looking towards Asia, and that did not fall. The Western provinces had fallen to provincialism, so breaking off from the Christian Capital. (Indeed, in 1204 the Western barbarians sacked and looted the Christian Capital).

Old Rome fell because it had taken on the imperialism of the Pagan Roman Emperors, imposed by admiring barbarian Frankish leaders. The new 11th century Patriarchs (‘Papae’) of Old Rome, all Franks, claimed absolute authority over the whole Church, notably in the ‘Dictatus Papae’ of the German Hildebrand in 1075. Thus, the Pope became the ‘Pontifex Maximus’, the only intermediary between God and man. This was expressed in the invention by Old Rome of the filioque ideology of the second half of the 11th century. This claims that the Holy Spirit, the power and authority of God, proceeds from the replacement/vicar of the Son of God on earth, which that Patriarch claimed to be. This was in order to justify his universal power grab, expressed in the contradictory claim that he was both ‘Roman’ and yet ‘Catholic’.

They would eventually even declare that the Popes of Rome are infallible, though that was already inherent in the manifesto of 1075. Repaganised, Old Rome had made itself into the provincial ‘Roman Catholic’ Empire with absolute authority, cutting itself off from the Church in 1054. At once protests began within its territory of Western Europe, which was dominated by the Latin and Germanic peoples. These protests were met as ‘heresies’ with violent persecutions and inquisitions by what had once been a Church hierarchy, now a wealthy, feudalised and sadistic elite of ‘Princes of the Church’, who led armies and massacred freely. Eventually those protests resulted in the defection of a majority of the Germanic peoples and, initially especially, of others in the 16th century ‘Protestant Reformation’, in fact a ‘Deformation’.

Thus, Western Europe was controlled by Roman Catholicism and Protestantism, which errors were later exported to European overseas colonies, carrying division worldwide. Today, Roman Catholicism remains, despite the scandals of pedophilia and financial corruption, but Protestantism is dying out much more rapidly. National Protestant Churches, like the National Churches of Finland, Sweden, Norway, Denmark, England, Scotland, Wales and Ireland, as well as other Protestant groups like Methodists and Quakers are simply closing down and disappearing. However, the question remains as to which of the Local Orthodox Churches could lead the restoration of the Local Church of Western Europe by gathering all Orthodox and those of goodwill together, and not imposing some narrow nationalist politics?

Which Local Church Will Lead the Reconstitution?

The centralising and nationalist ideologues of the Greek Patriarchate of Constantinople have never actually been interested in doing this, despite certain of its frustrated bishops and clergy showing such an interest. In reality, that Patriarchate has been so dominated by politics and hence so spiritually weak that its Vatican-visiting leadership appears to want to be a minor department of Roman Catholicism, only Greek-speaking and Greek nationalist. Personally, I realised this in 1982 after talking with the late Fr John Romanides, totally isolated in his views, though he was still captivated by Hellenism (Greek nationalism). His isolation was due to the domination of the episcopate of his Patriarchate by politicians, ‘Princes of the Church’, not by men of Faith, the authentic shepherds of the flock, like Sts Spyridon and Nicholas.

From 1982 on, if not before, I had hoped that the Russian Church would take the lead in the construction of a new Local Church, despite its threefold Diaspora divisions. For this, the Diaspora divisions would first have to be overcome and so I worked towards this throughout the 80s, 90s and 2000s. I helped to oppose secularising modernist and ecumenist liberalism, on the one hand, and censorious old calendarist and obscurantist phariseeism on the other hand. We saw great hope when came the fall of the atheist USSR in 1991. This was followed by the admirable 2000 Jubilee Council in Moscow with at long last the first canonisations of New Martyrs and Confessors and the 2003 statement of Patriarch Alexiy II regarding a future Western European Church. Finally, came the triumph of Russian Diaspora unity in 2007 and 2019.

However, in 2022 the CIA decided otherwise and destroyed that unity through the schism of a London asset planted in a Russian-American sect, which had infiltrated the Church inside Russia via certain extremely naïve senior hierarchs of that Church. This destruction was at the same time aided by a wave of Russian nationalism, which meant that the Russian Church suicidally lost the loyalty of Ukrainians, Moldovans, Western people and almost all who are not Russian. The international period of the New Martyrs and Confessors had been renounced by its bishop-politicians. Since the ‘Russian’ Diaspora in Western Europe is based not on Russians, but on the above Non-Russian national groups, Ukrainians, Moldovans and Western people, the divided Russian Church will not be able to lead in the reconstruction of the Local Church.

Although quality can be more important than quantity, until about 1965, most Western Europeans would have looked to the Russian Church to lead any possible restoration of a future Western European Local Church, simply because Russians were the majority Orthodox nationality there. From 1965 until about 2015, most would have looked to the Greek Patriarchate of Constantinople, since they in turn had become the majority. Today, after the influx of well over four million young Romanians and Moldovans with EU Romanian passports into Western Europe since 2007 and the births of their children here and the organisation of a Romanian Church structure with ten bishops (and more to come), we look to the Church of Romania to lead the way in uniting all Orthodox in a future Local Church. Is this realistic?

The Romanian and Russian Churches: Advantages and Disadvantages

The Romanian Orthodox Church, the second largest Local Orthodox Church, has certain advantages. Unlike the Constantinople and Russian Churches, it is in communion with all Orthodox, resisting the political extremes of cutting of communion and attacking the catholicity of the Church. Its language is a Latin language in the Western Latin alphabet, not unlike Italian. (From Roma to Romania?) And though Romania suffered under Communism, it was not so much that the Tradition of Orthodox Life and hesychastic life were destroyed, only suppressed for a time. But unlike the Westernised Greek Churches, it was only recently persecuted and produced many New Martyrs and Confessors. However, unlike the Russian Church, it was not so persecuted that it was virtually eliminated and became a convert Church, without living traditions.

The result is that most Romanian clergy generally see themselves as servants of the people and encourage popular participation in services together, opening the royal doors, reading the eucharistic canon aloud. This is helped because the Romanian Church celebrates the services in an accessible language. This is quite unlike the Russian Church, where clergy are all too often a professional caste separated from the people. Choirs are often professional and the services are cloaked in inaccessibility and in a 17th century language which is largely not understood. The result is that the people prefer Akathist hymns to Vespers and Matins. Akathists are written more or less in Russian and all can sing the simple melody. Similarly, Russian piety prefers services of intercession and memorial services to the complex liturgical cycle.

This inaccessibility is the result of the State-run bureaucratic clericalism introduced by Emperor Peter I after 1700, with its purely subjective and favouritising system of civil service awards, is most obvious in the withholding of communion. This means the very rigid insistence of most Russian priests on confession before communion, although, hypocritically, they do not do that for themselves. However, this Protestant-style State domination of the Church, copied from the Netherlands by Peter I, leads to the ritualistic and militaristic ethos in the Russian Church. This is unlike in any of the other Local Churches, from which it has been very isolated for centuries. For some the Russian Church is only about standing through services, dressed like an army in a particular ‘uniform’, which is specific to Russians, not to all Orthodox.

The Russian Church also excluded itself from the local assembles of Orthodox bishops, at long last organised in 2009 throughout the 12 regions of the Orthodox Diaspora. True, these assemblies have not become popular, on account of their political and completely undemocratic domination by the Greek Patriarchate of Constantinople and their lack of transparency, refusing for example to publish the minutes of their meetings. This means that most Orthodox have no idea that they even exist and do not feel involved in them in any way. Nevertheless, they do exist. However, Russian self-exclusion from them means that all the other Orthodox, Greeks, Romanians, Antiochians, Serbs etc are slowly starting to forge local Diaspora unity without the Russians. This is the path towards new Local Churches. Self-exclusion is a great mistake.

Nevertheless, the Romanian Church like any other does have its weaknesses. For instance, a few of its clergy have a reputation for love of money which compromises the principles of Orthodoxy and those clergy in the eyes of the faithful affected. However, its greatest weakness may be Romanian nationalism. This is a State Church, like the Church of Greece. If it follows in the suicidal footsteps of Russian and Greeks and falls into nationalism, it will fail to transmit the Orthodox Faith to succeeding, locally-born generations, who are integrated in all ways into the local culture. Then, like the Russian Church over the last fifty years and the Greek Church today, it will have to bury its last priests and sell off its empty churches, as we have witnessed so often in the Russian Church and recently the Greek Church since the 1970s.

The Future Local Orthodox Church of Western Europe

In our context, Western Europe can be defined as the 22 countries of ex-Catholic and ex-Protestant Europe, the exceptions being in countries in the east of the Western half of Europe. In order of size, these countries are: Germany, the UK, France, Italy, Spain, the Netherlands, Belgium, Sweden, Portugal, Austria, Switzerland, Denmark, Norway, Finland, Ireland, Luxembourg, Malta, Iceland, Andorra, Liechtenstein, Monaco and San Marino. They speak twelve different national languages. Thus, in this list we exclude countries outside Western Europe, in Central and Eastern Europe, such as the Baltic States, Poland, Hungary, Czechia, Slovakia and ex-Yugoslavia. These have historically been canonically dependent or dominated by Local Churches, like the Serbian, the Polish, the Czechoslovak, the Romanian and the Russian.

Initially, as we already suggested in our report of 1988, called ‘Vision or Dream’ a regional but multinational Metropolia could be established. This would be based in Paris and have six regional Archdioceses, set up around Western Europe. Perhaps, in the long term, even if it is quite far ahead of us, each could become the foundation for a future Local Church, once other smaller Local Churches have entered into co-operation with the majority Romanian Church and its suggested structures. However, initially, this would look as follows: A Metropolitan of Paris and All Western Europe, First Hierarch of the Orthodox Church of Western Europe, with, initially, a Synod of 24 bishops. This would be made up of 6 archbishops and 18 bishops. They would look after over six million Orthodox of various nationalities who live in Western Europe.

Gallia:

One Archbishop and three bishops with titles in France, Wallonia, French Switzerland and Monaco, representing Romanian, Greek, Russian, Serbian, Moldovan, Ukrainian etc

Italia:

One Archbishop and three bishops with titles in Northern Italy and San Marino; Central Italy; Southern Italy and Malta, representing Romanian, Moldovan, Greek, Russian, Ukrainian, Serbian etc

Iberia:

One Archbishop and three bishops with titles in Spain; Catalonia, the Basque Country and Andorra; Portugal, representing Romanian, Moldovan, Greek, Russian, Serbian, Ukrainian etc

Germania:

One Archbishop and three bishops with titles in Germany; Switzerland and Liechtenstein; Austria; the Netherlands, Flanders and Luxembourg, representing Greek, Russian, Romanian, Serbian, Moldovan, Ukrainian etc

Iona (Isles of the North Atlantic):

One Archbishop and three bishops with titles in England; Ireland; Scotland; Wales, representing Romanian, Greek, Moldovan, Russian, Serbian, Ukrainian etc

Scandinavia:

One Archbishop and three bishops with titles in Sweden; Denmark and the Faeroes; Finland; Norway and Iceland, representing Romanian, Serbian, Russian, Greek, Moldovan, Ukrainian etc

We suggest that the Archbishop of the Archdiocese of each region be chosen from the majority Orthodox nationality living in that region. Each regional Archdiocese should, if possible, have a bishop for other Orthodox peoples present, forming a kind of local Synod. When a new Metropolitan has to be chosen, every bishop in each regional Synod should have a vote. Clearly, with time, there would be bishops from local nationalities, Spanish, German, English, French etc. All bishops would be at least bilingual, if not trilingual. With time, the number of bishops would probably increase, according to local needs and the nationalities represented. This is what we have tried to do on a miniature and modest level in our parish, with three priests representing and respecting each nationality, calendars and customs.

 

Did World War III Begin with the War against Iran on 28 February 2026?

Some consider that World War II was simply a continuation of World War I and the two Wars form merely a single World War. But however closely the two World Wars were linked and despite the clear fact that the second was caused by the first, they are events which are separated by a generation. Following the two World Wars, some consider that a Third World War is inevitable in order to resolve the outstanding injustices left over from the Second, just as the latter was made inevitable after the injustices left over from the First. Some even consider that World War III has just begun. How do we look at this amid the death and destruction in Israel, Iran and on US bases in the Gulf?

The first very dramatic two months of 2026 opened with delusional American threats to the Greenland territory of its foolish ‘ally’ Denmark (when Trump takes Greenland, hypocritical Danish complaints will not be heeded); the unheard of kidnapping of the democratically-elected President of Venezuela, which cast aside all international law and the Charter of the all but dead United Nations, which has been dropped by Trump’s USA; the revelations that the Western world is ruled by a satanic Epstein class of perverts and cocaine addicts; threats the sovereignty of Cuba; a full-scale, unprovoked war against Iran. The USA has become a terrorist rogue state, an international pariah.

In the course of this latter insanity against Iran, the dictator of the American Empire from his Imperial Throne in the White House insulted Zelensky as ‘a circus director’ and called Starmer ‘no Churchill’. At least both those descriptions were blindingly obvious. Tell us something we did not know already. But otherwise, the narcissistic psychopath, Trump, has become a delusional megalomaniac. He has painted himself and his Western vassals and puppets into an oil-starved, food-starved and bankrupt corner. Will popular street protests begin against so-called Western ‘leaders’? It would seem quite possible, when the Western peoples start to suffer from rising prices.

In answer to our original question, we would say that World War III began on 9 May 1945, that is, as soon as World War II ended. Only weeks after the death of Roosevelt on 12 April 1945, Churchill proposed his insane ‘Operation Unthinkable’, an immediate triggering of war against the USSR. Although that scheme was rejected, the US still unnecessarily dropped two atom bombs on Japan, not against Japan, but as a warning to the USSR. So began the ill-named ‘Cold War’, the Third World War, which has in fact been a series of hot wars and terrorist overthrows of democracy throughout Latin America and Western Europe, in Italy and Greece (the colonels), in France and Germany.

In November 1963 the peace-making President Kennedy was cruelly assassinated, probably by the CIA. Then the USA changed from being a Constitutional Republic to an Autocratic Empire under the authoritarian Uniparty of oligarchs, as became apparent in the ensuing US genocide of two million Vietnamese. After the Western ideology of Marxism unsurprisingly bankrupted the USSR in 1991, there came the invasion of Afghanistan and the US rape of oil-rich Iraq after the Saudi attack on the USA on 9/11/2001. In 2004 came the first US attempt to usurp power in the Ukraine, which culminated in the bloodshed of 2014 and then genocide, which is ongoing now.

In 2019 came covid, the US attempt to seize power worldwide through biological warfare. That ill-thought through scheme backfired and panic among Western leaders, who knew what had happened, set in, as they attempted to lock up their peoples in a gigantic prison. There followed a second, Vietnam-style, humiliation of the US in 2021 in Afghanistan, that graveyard of empires from the Empire of Alexander the Great to the British and American Empires. Then came the US attempt to destroy and dismember Russia through its Ukrainian proxy, opposed on 24 February 2022, and next, on 28 February 2026, the US aggression against Iran both through its Israeli proxy and directly.

Some hope that Trump will fall so ill, either physically or mentally, that he will have to be removed by those around him. Others hope that he will be impeached for his many, many illegal acts, including those connected to the Epstein scandal. Others hope for regime change, that he will be assassinated in a palace revolt and be replaced by his Vice-President. The latter has clearly always been against the terrorist war on Iran and is not in any way compromised in the Epstein/Mossad scandal. However, for the moment all that Trump can do is beg Iran and Russia for a ceasefire again and again. However, this war will end only when Iran is no longer threatened.

Having with his ‘can-do-anything-I-want’, spoilt brat, American hubris ignored the advice of all, together with Israel he attacked Iran without provocation and without a strategy. This attack came after his failure to destroy Iran in his twelve-day war of decapitation in June 2025, and his failure to regime-change the country through the ill-organised protests of a few dissidents in January 2026. Civilisations do not depend on one man; Trump does not understand that, as he has no sense of history. Now Trump is desperately trying to find proxies, Kurds, Azeris or others, to fight for him. They are refusing to do so, and he is finding out that he has to order bodybags for his hundreds of dead troops.

As karma comes and Tel Aviv is being turned into a second Gaza, Trump’s ‘Board of Peace’ has been transformed into a Board of War, just as his Department of Defence is now the Department of War. His ‘Board of Peace’ will never replace the United Nations, as he recently dreamed. Trump, the new Charlemagne, is lost in his own delusional contradictions, for narcissists always believe in their own delusions. We know, as we had to deal with another narcissistic psychopathic bully in London, who leads an American sect. There is now only one thing stopping peace and that is Trump’s pride, for like all narcissists, he can never admit that he was wrong. Hubris goes before the fall.

The US fought for 20 years, killed hundreds of thousands and spent two trillion dollars in Afghanistan in order to replace the anti-Russian Taliban with the pro-Russian Taliban. Now in twelve days the US has killed thousands and spent twenty billion dollars in order to replace an anti-nuclear Khamenei with a pro-nuclear Khamenei. Oil is doubling in price since the US-Israeli war began and Ukrainianised Europe and the Ukraine are panicking. Now that Europe has ‘liberated’ itself from Russian oil and gas, it has also ‘liberated’ itself from Gulf oil and gas. Bravo to the geniuses of the European governing elite. Where was that elite educated? Or were they simply brainwashed by their ‘education’?

Soon oil will reach $120 a barrel and then $150 a barrel, effectively tripling. All thanks to that elite. To bring peace, and Iran is ready, if need be, for a ten-year long war of attrition, Iran has three demands: End the illegal US sanctions against Iran; Withdraw all US forces from West Asia and close all US bases in West Asia, in Israel, Iraq, Syria, Turkey and in the puppet monarchies of the Gulf, leading to the liberation of Palestine; Pay compensation to Iran for damage caused to its people since 1979. Then the liberation of West Asia, which is what this war is all about, will have been achieved and the peoples of the Gulf will have been liberated from their corrupt Western monarchies.

The Trump regime has shot itself in both feet – first in the Ukraine and now in Iran. No wonder the USA can no longer walk. Because of its defeat in the Ukraine, North Asia – led by Russia – is free, after 300 years of Western captivity, and it will take Western Europe, its Epstein elite overthrown, with it. East Asia – led by China – is also now free and it will take the former US puppets, Taiwan, Japan, South Korea, the Philippines and all Oceania, including Australia, with it. South Asia – India – will be freed once West Asia – led by Iran – is free. And Africa is already joining BRICS, ejecting the last European colonialists. The USA is being sent back home to Northern America.

The US regime has long been controlled by Israeli Zionists like Netanyahu and, before him, by Epstein, by alcoholics like Hegseth and Graham, and by other ‘Christian Zionists’. But there is no such thing as that. You cannot be a Christian and a Zionist. We shall call them Protestant Zionists, a heresy. There are, it seems, some seven million of these deluded Americans, only 2% of the population, but with huge influence. They believe that through wars in which millions of innocents die, they can hasten the coming of Antichrist and Armageddon. Thus, they do the devil’s work, for he loves it when people are massacred in wars, blood rituals in his name, especially World Wars.

Some are asking if Trump is the Antichrist. Obviously not. Do not flatter him. All the prophecies describe someone else, far more intelligent and cunning, and of another origin. But like many other recent US Presidents, he is most certainly a servant and forerunner of Antichrist. The Trump regime’s desperate divide and conquer strategy to try and remain No 1, can be seen in its desire for the Balkanisation of Russia, West Asia and any other country whose natural resources it wants to steal and control. However, Globalist Antichrist is resisted by the anti-centralising Sovereign Lands which are joining BRICS. We support that resistance, for we oppose Antichrist and his divisions and wars.

In reply to our own question at the beginning, we have said that World War III began long ago, in 1945, for there has been no peace in the world since 1945, only continual wars. Unlike the first two World Wars, World War III has not been a matter of four or five years. It has been going on continually in phases for over eighty years. Moreover, those phases have been global, ranging from Korea, Vietnam, Iraq, Afghanistan, Libya, the Ukraine, Syria to Iran, wherever the Western elite is trying to force others into its Globalist straitjacket. But that elite, composed of Zionist psychopaths like Trump and his master Netanyahu, are the ones who need the straitjackets and the madhouse.

 

 

The Heresy of Zionism and the Tragedy of War

 

https://ruskline.ru/news_rl/2026/03/05/eres_sionizma_i_tragediya_voiny

Operation Epic Fury, also called Operation Epic Failure or Epstein Failure, continues in Israeli-US attacks on Iran and Iranian attacks on them and their assets in West Asia. None should be surprised: it was announced that this would be a Regional War weeks ago. According to at least one US commander: ‘Trump has been anointed by Jesus in order to fight at Armageddon so that Jesus can come back and then we will enter the rapture’. This particular heresy is called ‘Zionism’. It came to prominence in 1916 under the influence of the British ‘Round Table’.

Bankrupt, the members of the Round Table realised that the Anglo-Norman rulers of the Establishment needed to eliminate Imperial Russia in order to obtain finance from Zionist banks. Drained of strength, they realised that they needed to sacrifice fresh, American, blood to win their war. Thus, they planned for 1917 the fall of Imperial Russia, which had until then restrained the Zionist heresy, the entry into the Great European War of the USA and the Balfour Declaration that the British elite would recognise a Zionist State to be established in Palestine.

The Zionist heresy does not know that Antichrist will come before Christ returns and that there will be no ‘rapture’. This is because Zionism is an Old Testament religion, the religion of the Pharisees, that of those who murdered Christ. Those who still live in the Old Testament, those who have still not received the New Testament revelation or openly rejected it, whether formally Jews or Muslims or pseudo-Christians, will confuse Antichrist with Christ and worship Antichrist. Here we have the explanation for what is happening now.