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Keeping to the Golden Mean: Avoiding both New Calendarism and Old Calendarism

Last week the Greek Patriarch once again compromised himself with the Pope of Rome, this time in Muslim Turkey. Many have been shocked by his ecumenism. It seems strange, since this Greek Patriarch has been doing such things for decades. And he is not the first Greek Patriarch to do such things. Many fail to understand that he has once again compromised only himself, not the Church. The Church is not some member of the clergy, a mere individual, whatever his title. Our salvation comes only through Divine Mercy following our repentance for our own sins, not through trying to save someone else. Only Christ saves.

Just because one of the Twelve was called Judas Iscariot, we do not reject the Eleven. Christ did not do so. Just because one of the apples in the basket is bad, we do not throw away all the others. To do so is puritanism, phariseeism, the heresy of the Donatists. As I remarked to a parishioner, at the Dread Last Judgement we shall have to answer for our own sins, not for the personal sins of someone else’s Patriarch. And even if he were our Patriarch, his personal sins would engage only himself, not us.

Here is the error of those who are scandalised by the deeds of such a Patriarch and join the old calendarists. Through not wishing to be in theoretical communion with such a Patriarch, they then put themselves out of actual communion with the whole Church! The old calendarists are not Orthodox, as they claim to be, since they are not in communion with the Orthodox Church, but only with a tiny sect, made up mostly of neophytes who are not rooted and grounded in the Faith.

Once again, the old calendarist group in question consists of members of the Russian Orthodox Church Outside Russia (ROCOR) (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KlTaXUfyL6U&ntb=1&msockid=c33b6ec0ce1e11f0b05ac565ade6baa5).

That small group which has been spawning and feeding multiple old calendarist groups ever since 1986. In 2007 the campaign, in which we played an active part, to reunite ROCOR, especially in the USA, with the Mother-Church in Moscow, so that it would never again entertain the temptation of falling away from the Orthodox mainstream, seemed to be successful. All went well for the first ten years after 2007 until about 2017. Then sectarian elements in the USA, basically Russian old calendarists, took over ROCOR.

Then ROCOR soon began to fall out of communion from the rest of the Church, most notably in December 2021 under pressure from a former old calendarist priest, from another part of the Russian Orthodox Church! To quote the Book of Proverbs and the Second Epistle of the Apostle Peter, the dog returned to its vomit. When this became known, six parishes, twelve clergy and some 5,000 people, well over half of the ROCOR Diocese in England, warned the governing body of ROCOR in New York. However, that body, the American Synod, backed the schism. Thus we left the newly schismatic ROCOR, so that we would be able to remain in communion with the mainstream, the Church of God.

The only confusing matter here is that the Russian Orthodox Church in Moscow itself did not take any action against the uncanonical and schismatic actions of ROCOR. For ROCOR, by the Act of Canonical Communion signed by ROCOR in 2007 (I was present), was supposed to be in communion with the rest of the Orthodox Church. This was why in 2006 my friend, Fr Alexander Lebedev, had visited the tiny old calendarist groups in Greece, Bulgaria and Romania to make it clear to them that no part of ROCOR was any longer in communion with them (our Western European part of ROCOR had never been in communion with them anyway).

It has been suggested that the inconsistent policy of the Russian Orthodox Church in Moscow in this matter was connected with political affairs connected with the Ukraine. Once the military operations in the Ukraine have been concluded, we can only hope that Moscow will discipline ROCOR and bring it to obey the canons. However, much of ROCOR will refuse to do this and break away from the Church into full-blown old calendarist schism.

The Defeat of the Kiev Regime and the Rewriting of Human History

Introduction: The End of the Ukraine Fantasy

The oligarch-controlled rulers of the most corrupt country in the world, the ex-Soviet Ukraine, face a threefold crisis: the corruption crisis with its golden toilet scandal, which has made several corrupt ministers under investigation flee abroad amid US threats to release more recordings, amid infighting for power. The rats are leaving the Sinking American Empire, which is now also a Shrinking Empire, as Trump gives up on feckless Western European leaders. But they are only rearranging the deckchairs on the Titanic, since the bankrupt Ukraine also faces a financial crisis, with no money to pay the running costs of the country, and a military crisis, with Kiev’s worn-down armed forces collapsing in the East.

Trump is so tired of the defeated Ukraine and the lies of its elite that he has invented a fantasy, draft ‘Peace Plan’, with the bullying ultimatum that it be signed by Kiev. European-backed Kiev at once rejected and radically changed the proposal, for it would mean the capitulation of the ultra-corrupt Kiev regime gang and that of meddling European politicians. As Vance has said, the ‘failed politicians’ (in parentheses, those of the now abandoned Ukraine and of the sidelined huddle of Western European politicians) who live with the ‘fantasy of Ukrainian victory’ have to sign it. This is regardless of the fact that the ‘Plan’ is fantasy and Russia will never sign its absurd conditions, but will win militarily.

The Three Russian Aims

The Western elite has never understood Russia. It feared a sweeping Russian victory in two weeks in early 2022, as the West had experienced in Afghanistan – at first. In fact, in Afghanistan, the US spent over $2 trillion and 20 years in order to replace the Taliban by the Taliban – it was no sweeping victory at all, just the long-term rout of the West. In the same way, if swift military victory had occurred in the Ukraine, Russia would then have faced many years of local popular insurrections, terrorist attacks and civil disobedience. The West was banking on this, a repeat of the anti-Russian war it financed and ran in the Western Ukraine from 1945 until 1958 and even after, revenge for Afghanistan.

Russia’s aims were long-term, to ensure that the regime would engineer its own downfall. To do this, it set itself from the outset three very clear, non-territorial, long-term aims. Firstly, there was the aim of liberating the Russian Ukraine (symbolised initially by the ‘Donbass’), either militarily or else by internationally-observed referendums for self-determination, as it implemented in the five provinces which it is absorbing. Secondly, there was the aim of demilitarising the Ukraine. Thirdly, there was the aim of denazifying the Ukraine. Showing the very patient, Oriental attitude of letting the rotten fruit fall by itself and then taking over with the minimum of losses to itself, Russia has done precisely this.

Since then, the ‘Donbass’ has been extended to mean the whole of Kiev-genocided and menaced Russian ‘Ukraine’, the east and south of the 1922-founded Soviet Ukraine, which had previously always been part of Russia. And the war of attrition, originally aimed at ‘demilitarising’ the Ukraine, became a war of military attrition against the whole of Western Europe because of Western Europe’s self-declared war on Russia. After destroying all Kiev’s arms, all NATO’s arms had to be destroyed, with American, French, British and German armour burning on the steppes. The Russians had to demilitarise the ever-present NATO threat. As a result, NATO’s war stocks have dwindled to very little.

The Broader Consequences of Denazification

In this way the final aim of ‘denazification’ came to mean not only the denazification of the Ukraine, but also of Western Europe, since Western Europe was supporting the Nazi values of the regime in Kiev. The latter still suffered from the Far Western Ukrainian (Galician) Nazis. Russia, like the rest of the Global Majority, never forgot that Nazism is merely one form of the purely ideology of Western supremacy. The only difference was that the Germans genocided the Slavs of Europe (30 million of them died in their genocide of World War II) and the Jews of Europe, and not the brown, black, red and yellow peoples of the Americas, Asia and Australasia, genocided by other Europeans.

Germany has never shown repentance for its Slav holocaust, unlike its repentance for its much smaller Jewish holocaust. The German repentance for its genocide of the Jews is then exceptional, as can be seen by the lack of any repentance by the other Western colonial elites, who are still justifying their genocides of ‘coloured peoples’. Today Russia (with US help) is indirectly going to regime-change Western Europe. From this moment on, the absurd 30,000 anti-Russian sanctions of the EU will be lifted, diplomatic missions, free travel, commercial links and freedom of speech (no more censorship of the Russian media) re-established, and frozen Russian assets in Western Europe returned.

Free of Nazism, the future government of Kiev will establish freedom for all minorities, Romanian, Hungarian, Rusyn, Polish and Russian, with self-determination. This will include freedom for the Russian language, culture and the Ukrainian Orthodox Church. The Russian State will be victorious, but the great loser will be the still Sovietised Russian Church. It will have to be deSovietised, that is, decentralised, for it will, true, decades too late, finally have to cede autocephaly to Russian Orthodox outside the Russian Federation. Now nationalist to the core, it has lost credit among Orthodox outside Russia and inside Russia. This is because of politicians, career bureaucrats, and not pastors.

Conclusion: Southern Italy 1022: Columbus 1492: Donbass 2022

The ‘Ascent of Latin Europe’, to use the medieval historian Karl Leyser’s term, that is, the gradual Western domination of the periphery and neighbours of Western Europe by organised violence, including to islands and peninsulas like Orthodox Southern Italy in 1022, Iberia, the British Isles, Ireland, Scandinavia, and to Eastern Europe and the ‘Near East’, began a millennium ago. However, the Global Ascent of Latin Europe began in 1492 with Columbus’ voyage to the ‘West Indies’ and in 1498 with that of Vasco da Gama to the ‘East Indies’. In this way, the ‘Far West’ and the ‘Far East’ fell under Western domination with the dream/nightmare of its total planetary control – called Globalism.

The writing of the history of these events and all that preceded them has been nearly entirely ethnocentric, described almost uniquely by State-funded and State-manipulated Western academics. They always told the story as viewed by the Western elite, not by Western people or Non-Westerners, for those academics had been bought out by that elite. Our Story, unlike Western ‘His-Story’, the actual story of the real World, has yet to be written, despite partial attempts over the last fifty years. This means the rewriting of the history of humanity, not only of Non-Western peoples, but also of Western peoples themselves, a great many of whom have always opposed their tyrannical elites.

The East Anglians

Like the majority of English people, the East Anglians are chiefly descended from the Angles, who once lived on the Angeln Peninsula in the present northern tip of Germany, just below the south-eastern corner of Denmark. They began settling here with some of their neighbours, Saxons, Frisians and others, already at the end of the third century. Some intermarried locally, but in the fourth, fifth and sixth centuries their wider families joined them. By about 600 the Angles dominated the whole region and indeed the whole country, giving their name to England, for they were the majority of the new settlers. Thus, they gave their name to this part of Eastern England, which bulges out into the North Sea, once called the German Ocean. This is in fact more a relatively shallow lake than a sea, with a clockwise current that separates Eastern England from the coast of the Netherlands and Belgium, some 200 miles away.

The River Waveney divides the East Anglian folk into two regions, north and south, which became Norfolk and Suffolk, although these used to extend into the eastern half of what came to be called Cambridgeshire, beyond which lived the Angles of Mercia, now the East and West Midlands (1). In the early sixth century the East Angles formed their own Kingdom of East Anglia. In the ninth century they were joined by numbers of Danish invaders, especially on the coasts and along the rivers. Living in this relatively isolated region and facing an often hostile Continent, over time East Anglians came to display suspicion, aloofness, independence and individuality and were reputed as modest, hard-working, brave, reliable and frugal in their attitudes. Living near the sea, like that famous East Anglian, Lord Nelson, they also displayed a spirit of adventure, inquisitiveness, love of freedom and fair dealing.

Despots have learned about this East Anglian love of freedom to their sorrow. Such despots include the first Norman invader in St Audrey’s Ely, where he was resisted by Hereward. Then new resistance appeared on St Edmund’s Day in 1214 at Bury St Edmunds, which became not only ‘the shrine of the king’, but also ‘the cradle of the law’. For St Edmund, King and Martyr (+ 869), is our East Anglian champion. Then there came the examples of independence given in Norfolk by Geoffrey Lister and Robert Kett in their rebellion against injustice of the fourteenth century, those who rose up against tyranny under the early Cromwell (before he became a tyrant), and later against the European tyrants Napoleon and Hitler. All the foreign tyrants, and to this day, have always been confused by the old East Anglian subtlety of feigned simplicity and apparent ignorance, and the reluctance to show what is in fact deeply-felt emotion.

This feigned ignorance. ‘playing dumb’, is only a sign of our modesty. East Anglians have never liked know-it-all boastfulness, American-style flamboyance and alien pomposity. We prefer the culture of our own modest simplicity, which is so disrespected by some. Partly for this reason, East Anglia is the home of English Painting, with its soft, homelike scenes and our native, pastel-shaded woods and fields. This School was led by such as the famed Gainsborough, Constable, Crome, Cotman, three generations of the Norwich School, and in the last century the great Sir Alfred Munnings. All were inspired by the broad skies, cloudscapes, seascapes and landscapes of the East Anglian scene. East Anglia is our home and in our international age of constant change and instability, all the more an anchor to which we hold. Let London and other big cities go their way. We are here, we are staying here and we are defending here.

Note 1:

With the River Waveney flowing through its middle, the North Sea to the north and the east, the East Anglian border with Essex to the south formed by the River Stour, and to the west by the Rivers Ouse and Cam, East Anglia was distinct from the rest of the country, almost an island. Beyond the Ouse and the Cam, as far as a line descending from Newark, stretches the East Midlands, thereafter it is the West Midlands as far as the Welsh border. Traditionally, East Anglians drank ale, in the East Midlands beer, and in the West Midlands they drank cider.

To the north of East Anglia, in what is now called Lincolnshire and in Northumbria, lived more Angles. Like the Jutes in Kent, southern Hampshire and on the Isle of Wight, the Saxons lived in the south of England, in Essex (East Saxons), Middlesex (Middle Saxons), Sussex (South Saxons) and Wessex (West Saxons). There are no North Saxons, only Anglians, so numerous that they gave their name to the whole country. The term ‘Anglo-Saxon’, is historical nonsense. Indeed, today it is used to mean ‘Anglo-American’, or rather ‘Modern Norman’.

We Have Seen It All Before

To the Tsar you did not belong,

And that is how it all went wrong:

The foe whispered: Scatter and squander,

Give your treasure to the rich yonder,

Your power to slaves, your strength to enemies,

To serfs your honour, to traitors your keys.

Holy Rus, Maximilian Voloshin, 1918

Introduction

It is said that history does not repeat itself, it only echoes down the ages. This is hair splitting. It is the same thing in different words. Since geography does not change, mountains and plains, oceans and rivers do not move, and since human nature does not change, history does repeat itself. We have seen it all before.

The Ukraine

The Ukraine has been known for decades to be the most corrupt country on earth. The West has poured in hundreds of billions of dollars over the last four years. The money has all disappeared, just as the trillions did in Afghanistan and Iraq. The Kiev regime is utterly corrupt. Ministers are now finally being threatened with charges for corruption involving a mere $100 million. Some have fled abroad, their suitcases stuffed with dollar bills (London, the money-laundering capital, is a popular destination). The US is trying to regime-change by charging members of the regime with corruption, rather than by assassinating them. It is time to get rid of the intransigent Zelensky. Its oligarchs and their puppets, like the violent medieval princes and their corrupt retainers who used to live there, vie with one another. We have seen it all before.

For ordinary Ukrainians who have stayed, power cuts have become ever longer and they look anxiously at the destructive moving lights in the night skies and tremble. 1.8 million Ukrainian soldiers are dead or seriously wounded. Millions of young men and their families have fled abroad, 100,000 in the last month alone, in order to avoid the certain suicide of military service against a far stronger enemy. In his bunker in Kiev the actor President Zelensky himself now appears to be in a state of utter delusion, just like the artist Hitler in his bunker in Berlin just before his end, in denial, talking about moving non-existent armies and divisions, as bombed-out Berlin was surrounded by apocalyptic Soviet forces. We have seen it all before.

After taking back Russian Crimea (given to the Ukraine by the atheist monster Khrushchov in 1954) and then the four southern and eastern Russian provinces, given by the atheist monster Lenin to create the Soviet Ukraine in 1922, the Russian Federation may take back the next southern and eastern slice of the Soviet Ukraine. That consists of the other four Russian-speaking provinces (Kharkov, Dnepropetrovsk, Nikolaev and Odessa), also given to the Ukraine in 1922.

Russia may also give the bit that the other atheist monster Stalin stole in 1945 back to Romania (Romanians want Romanian North Bukovina/Chernivtsy back, just as they want Romanian ‘Moldova’, which Stalin also stole in 1945). Russia may also give the other Stalin-stolen bits (Zakarpattia) back to Hungary and (Catholic Lviv and Ivano-Frankivsk) to Poland (if the Poles want them back). Then, what remains will basically be a mirror image of Belarus to the north, the New Ukraine (or whatever it will be called) resembling a Southern Belarus, the East Slav Russian Protectorate of Kievan Rus. As for the delusional Western European elite, it will brush off its defeat in the Ukraine with the fantasy narrative that the Ukrainians were corrupt and Trump did not send enough aid. It was certainly not their fault.

Russia

The corrupt oligarch-gangster and traitor Prigozhin died in 2023, when a grenade exploded in his business jet, ‘in mysterious circumstances’, as they say. Whenever Russia is in trouble, there always appears a traitor or a rebel, a ‘false Dmitry’ or a Pugachov, who always ends up badly. Meanwhile, loyal Russian oligarchs prosper, as they receive plentiful military contracts from the State. It appears that between 100,00 and 150,000 Russians soldiers are dead, perhaps some 250,000 are seriously wounded. And though Russia has won the war in the Ukraine, crushing and demilitarising not just the Ukraine, but also NATO, and dividing it into coalitions of the willing and the unwilling, Russia must also win the peace. How will they deal with the hatred they have stirred up against themselves? The mourning widows, orphans, mothers, fathers, brothers, sisters, uncles, aunts, the survivors maimed in body and soul, the economy in tatters, the exiled in misery, the lives ruined. Russia continues with its own problems, almost the same as those as those in the Middle Ages, the rival princes of then have become the rival oligarchs of today. We have seen it all before.

President Putin, the once naïve Europhile lawyer from Saint Petersburg, a fluent German speaker, who knows English quite well and who wanted to join NATO, has closed the window on the West, opened by Peter I. He was forced to do so, astonished and hurt by the rejections and hostility of the West that he used to love. And instead he has opened a window on the East, which Tsar Nicholas II once tried to open, but was stopped from doing so by Western-armed and financed Japan in 1904. Now dewesternising Russia has the deep friendship of the East. This is a turning point not only in Russian history, but in Eurasian, and therefore World, history. For the only reason why Eurasia has never dominated the world has been its divisions; those divisions are no more. Western aggression and dishonesty have thrown them all together, Russia, China, India, Iran and North Korea, well over a third of humanity, and receiving all the sympathy of Africa and Latin America.

The greatest problems are faced by the Russian Orthodox Church. Once multinational, it has become national, indeed nationalist and centralised, clericalist, ritualist and militarist, a uniform army. The new quasi-Iranian fundamentalism there has cut the Russian Church off from the mainstream, from the Catholicity of the Orthodox Church. No-one is convinced by Russian Orthodoxy now, as it reels from the scandal of openly blessing weapons of war used to kill other Orthodox, from that of last year’s open adultery of its main ‘Orthodox’ TV oligarch, from the homosexual scandals of senior bishops from Budapest to Chicago, to the scandal of another who plays poker internationally for big money.

The main Patriarchal candidate actually dreams of anointing and crowning President Putin Tsar. As a result, far fewer Orthodox than before go to church. Many boycott it, not only outside the Russian Federation, but also inside it, repelled by the darkness of the new fundamentalism with its boorish and misogynistic attitudes, its ever-growing quasi-Old Ritualist isolation from the mainstream. Fr Ferapont of The Brothers Karamazov has won against Elder Zosima. Russian Church isolation is determined by the fact that it cuts itself off from any who disagree with it. This is a Soviet attitude, not a Christian one, just as parallel US Evangelism is a Zionist attitude, not a Christian one.

The USA

As usual, the USA just wants to double its dollars. After all, it has wasted some $350 billion of them in the Ukraine. It wants them back, with a return. However, the reason is not the usual profit-seeking greed, it is about astronomical US debt, which now amounts to $38.2 trillion. Deindustrialised, it faces economic crisis. The crisis is also moral, as the USA faces the problems engendered by the genocidal results of US Zionism, US-backed and US-armed Israel against Palestinians, and by the crisis of the Israel-linked Epstein scandal. We have seen it all before.

Western Europe

The Establishments of most of Western Europe, their lies backed to the hilt by their generously-funded and utterly mercenary media and academia, are indebted to the ultimate degree. Therefore, they have been busy fabricating provocations: Russian submarines off the coast of Sweden (in fact American ones), Russian missiles and drones flying over Poland (in fact Ukrainian ones), imaginary Russian drones flying over Germany and Denmark, imaginary Russian aircraft flying over Estonia, imaginary Russian arms on ships, leading to French piracy on the high seas, the sabotage of French hotels by ‘Russian’ bedbugs etc. Any fiction to scare the brainwashed sheeple, to justify absurd NATO and the huge expenses of the military-industrial complex, creating the long-desired Third World War. We have seen it all before.

France

President Macron, called Micron by his enemies, and his band of perverts, their popularity standing at 11%, appear to have halted democracy in France. The President himself is obsessed only by his overweening ambition of becoming a second Napoleon, the first President of Europe. His hubris will be followed by nemesis. We have seen it all before.

Germany

Germany is in recession, as it has suicidally destroyed its industrial might by cutting itself off from the cheap Russian gas and oil which once made it competitive and mighty. Fascistic green policies have helped its decline. Its ultra-militaristic Chancellor, amazingly still on 18% of popularity, together with many members of his government, appears to want revenge for 1945. They dream of surrounding Moscow and pounding it with NATO artillery. So far all they have seen is German tanks burning on the steppes near Kursk, in the same area as in 1943. We have seen it all before.

The UK

The Ukrainian armed forces have been provided with a great many British ‘military advisors’, ‘technicians’ and MI6 spies and bodyguards. All their terrorist operations have been run by the British. These are terrorist activities of the cinematic James Bond type, repeats of those between 1941 and 1944, like the disastrous Dieppe raid, which killed and wounded thousands of Canadians, or the futile Dambusters raid, which killed a thousand Ukrainian slave-workers, let alone the then terror bombings which killed half a million German civilians.

The present operations, based in Odessa, Ochakov and Nikolaev, have often been naval in type. Thus, they attacked the civilian Kerch Bridge, sent naval drones against ships, blew up a dam, planned a suicidal and very costly attack to break through strongly-protected Russian territory to the Sea of Azov, landed Ukrainian troops on an island in a suicidal attack, invaded a border region of the Kursk Region in Russia (70,000 Ukrainian dead or wounded), attacked a Russian train, set fire to Russian bombers, tried to assassinate President Putin, tried to bribe a pilot with $3,000,000 to fly his plane with a missile to the West. Since the bankrupt and deindustrialised British are so militarily weak, and their anti-democratic leader very unpopular at 16%, they can do nothing else except commit futile and suicidal acts of terrorism. The only thing they are good at is PR, confusing virtual reality with real reality, cinema fantasies with real war. We have seen it all before.

Poland

Some in ‘the hyena of Europe’, as Churchill called Poland, dreamed of restoring the past, a Greater Poland, stretching from the Baltic Sea to the Black Sea. It is all nonsense. Polish pragmatists, seeing the attitudes of nearly two million Ukrainians living freely among them and bankrupting them, are now turning towards an anti-Ukrainian attitude, remembering the Ukrainian Volyn massacres of the Poles over eighty years ago. The Poles will never forget. It is embarrassing for the Ukrainians, who would like them to forget.

Italy and the Others

It is said that no war in Europe can end until Italy has changed sides. This is because, sensibly, most Italians are not warlike. This change of sides will of course happen. Indeed, all the at present vassal states in Europe will do the same, according to how much good sense they have. Hungary and Slovakia have already done so. Croatia and Austria are slipping towards it, also passing from being pro-Kiev to being anti-Kiev, like Poland. Romania would do so, but Brussels forbids freedom and democracy there. Eventually even the Nordics and the other Baltics will go neutral again, once they have rid themselves of their American-imposed elites. We have seen it all before.

Conclusion

I love the stubborn design you hold,

And I agree to play my role.

Now another drama will unfold:

This time please, please let be my soul.

But the order of the acts is planned

The end of my path has been revealed.

I am quite alone; all drowns in the pharisees’ cant.

To live your life is no simple walk across a field.

Hamlet, Boris Pasternak, 1946

There is nothing new under the sun. An observer of this inanity and insanity, I will return to my Suffolk village, where the clocks go slow. Why adjust the clocks, when we are headed for eternity anyway? We have seen it all before.

The Western Empire Wanted to Dismember Russia, But Instead the Western Empire Dismembered Itself

The West’s Delusional Divine Mandate

Historians have often noted how the Western elite, unlike the elites of all other Civilisations, has for a millennium claimed that it possesses a ‘Zionist’ Divine mandate. This justifies its continual organised violence against those outside the Carolingian First Reich (Reich = Empire), which was founded in 800 AD in the Frankland centre of the Western world. This became clear in the eleventh century in the Frankish ‘proto-crusades’ on the European periphery, in Sardinia (1016), Sicily (1022), Iberia (1064) England (1066) and then in its attacks on West Asia, formally called ‘Crusades’, which began in 1096. This also became evident in the ‘Teutonic Crusades’ of the 13^th century against North-Eastern Europe and later the genocides, colonisation and exploitation of what is now called Latin America, starting with the gold-hungry Columbus in 1492. These extended to North America, Russia (which it then called Muscovy), Africa, Asia and Oceania.

At that time this Divine mandate was justified by the Western European leader, absolutist by Divine Right, the absolute power of the Popes of Rome. This mentality was continued by anti-Catholic Protestants, such as the British, who justified their genocides and asset-stripping by claiming that they were bringing ‘the savages’ their ‘civilising mission’ through the equally absolutist authority of their Bible. Today, when Western leaders are anti-Catholic and anti-Protestant, they justify their genocides and asset-stripping by their equally absolutist ‘moral crusade’ of ‘humanitarian intervention’, as in Iraq – ’God told me to invade’, said George Bush. All is permitted because only the (authoritarian, oligarchic and Globalist = Imperialist) Western world brings ‘freedom and democracy’, that is, freedom for perversion and for its elite to tyrannise and exploit the whole Globe.

Where does this supposed Divine mandate come from? Secularists say that it comes from their ‘superior’ ideology of ‘humanism’, which ‘primitive peoples’, ‘blacks, browns and yellows’, do not possess. The scientifically-minded prefer to speak of the technological advance of Western countries over others. All this is cultural arrogance, hubris. For most of the past millennium the civilisations of countries like China and India, as well as the many Latin American civilisations, were in all respects well ahead of Western civilisation. In our view, what lies behind the hubris of the belief of the Western elite that it has a Divine mandate, is their dogmatic self-belief that God told it that the Holy Spirit comes to it uniquely from its leader, the sole representative of God on earth, originally the infallible Pope of Rome, but now the infallible Western elite, the new Popes.

The Long Century of Fallen European Empires

In July 1918 the Russian Empire, modelled by its elite since 1721 on Western Empires, fell. In November 1918 the German (the Second Reich = Second Empire, founded in 1871), Austro-Hungarian and Ottoman Empires followed. Twenty-seven years later, in May 1945, the German Third Reich fell. Thirty-eight years later, in October and November 1956, the British and French Empires also finally fell, after their last gasp failed invasion of Egypt, which the ultra-imperialist USA refused to support.

In December 1991 the Soviet Empire fell, after the morally bankrupt Western ideology of Marxism, which had invaded, ravaged and occupied Russia, had gone financially bankrupt.

In the 2020s the faltering Western Empire also fell. Having created appallingly bad relations with Russia, China and India, the world’s three great powers, it failed morally, diplomatically, militarily, technologically and financially. The divided Western Empire fell through its extraordinary hubris, in the same way that the Nazi Empire fell through its hubris, convinced that it was (racially) superior, in the same way as all empires fall through their hubris. The Roman, Carolingian (the First Reich), Portuguese, Spanish, Dutch, French, British and American Empires – all those ‘superior’ empires fell through hubris, absurdly high self-esteem and equally absurd low esteem of others, as best displayed in Fukuyama’s delusional 1992 The End of History and the Last Man.

The Old Western World

The Western world consisted of its leader, the US elite, its vassal-elites in the NATO-EU/UK, and to a lesser extent, those on US-controlled islands and coastlands of Eurasia, such as the settler colony of Israel, in South Korea, Taiwan and the Philippines. However, the highly unpopular US-backed and trained, Globalist elites in these countries are all cut off from their peoples. Sooner or later, after the collapse of their proxy Ukraine, those elites will also collapse, like dominos, beneath the weight of what they contemptuously call ‘Populism’, that is, the pressures of the People and their National values.

For the Western world, the Ukraine was only ever a strategically-located battering ram, to be used for its project to weaken, conquer and then dismember the Russian Federation. The Western-installed, pro-Fascist Ukrainian regime, which violently usurped the democratically-elected Ukrainian government in Kiev in 2014, was flattered, bribed and used, or rather abused, to reject peace and attack Russia. The Ukrainian peoples were the naïve or foolish victims of the little Kiev gang and this Western ideology, led into that delusion by their outraged sense of nationalism, which has led to the deaths of nearly two million of them (‘war to the last Ukrainian’) and the exile of seven million, most to Russia. They were caught in the middle of the Great Game of the contemporary American-led Western world, a repeat of the equally paranoid British Great Game of the 19^th century.

The infallible Old Western world has tried to destroy and dismember the Russian Federation by encircling it with bases and carrying out its hypocritical regime-change operations, with illegal bullying sanctions and tariffs, in surrounding countries (and also those surrounding India), despite the UN Charter which forbids such operations: in Georgia (failed), Belarus (failed), Kazakhstan (failed), Afghanistan (failed), Hungary (failed), Slovakia (failed), Serbia (failed), Iran (failed), the other four ex-Soviet stans in Central Asia (failing), Bosnia (failing), Kosovo (failing), Montenegro (failing), Macedonia (failing), Moldova (failing), Romania (failing), Bulgaria (failing), Syria (failing), Pakistan (failing), Bangladesh (failing), Nepal (failing), Armenia (failing), Azerbaijan (failing), Argentina (failing) and Venezuela (failing).

The New BRICS World

The UN has failed, sabotaged and paralysed by the three Western countries on the Security Council, which have blocked all democracy and abandoned the UN Charter and international law. As a result, BRICS has been established to represent the real world, the 90% which are not US vassals. The new BRICS world is dominated by the vastness of Asia, which is populated by nearly 60% of the world’s population: North Asia, led by the Russian Federation (Eurasia and the Eastern half of ‘Europe’, that is, the peoples of East Slavdom from Belarus and the New Ukraine through Russia to the Pacific); East Asia, with Japan, South Korea, Taiwan, Thailand, the rest of South-East Asia and Australian Oceania, led by China; South Asia, led by India; West Asia, led by Iran and Saudi Arabia, with the newly-created State of Palestine; Central Asia, led by Kazakhstan, plus the four ex-Soviet stans, Afghanistan and Mongolia.

As for the two other Non-Western Continents, there are Latin America, led by Brazil and Mexico, and Africa, led by South Africa, Ethiopia and Nigeria.

Then there come what are for the moment the Non-BRICS countries of the half-Continent of Northern America (Canada, USA and Greenland), led by the USA, and the half-Continent of Western ‘Europe’ (in fact, the North-Western Peninsula of Asia). The latter consists of the former US vassals in the Western half of Europe, in the EU and Non-EU Western European countries like the semi-American UK. These countries will go their own way, different from that of Northern America, which will be the last to abandon their hubris and start co-operating with BRICS. Thus, the once Hapsburg Hungary and Slovakia, to some extent Austria, Croatia, Slovenia, Serbia and Czechia, are already leading the Western half of Europe, which stretches as far as the borders of East Slavdom, in making peace with the Eastern half of Europe. Once its US-imposed and manipulated leaders, who imagine that they are infallible, like the Pope of Rome, have fallen, the other Western European peoples will be free to join BRICS as sovereign nations.

How Could the Russian Church Break Free of its Soviet Past?

Save me, O Lord, for there is no longer any that is godly; for the truth fails from among the sons of men.

Psalm 11, 2 (Septuagint) /12, 1

The title ‘Moscow Patriarchate’ was ‘Made in the USSR’, under Stalin just over eighty years ago. The title refers to the administration of the Russian Orthodox Church, which has been involved in a great many divisive scandals from the outset. These have involved every level of lack of Christianity, from ignorance, financial corruption, theft, alcoholism and moral depravity, from Russia to Budapest, from London to Paris, to, more recently, the bullying narcissistic schismatic and the international poker-playing Metropolitan. In the first case, all the ROCOR bishops supported the schism, whereas in the second case, Moscow removed him.

In the last fifty years we have seen the Russian Church destroyed by one Russian nationalist bishop after another, and this with an old flock that utterly rejected atheist Communism and chose Church independence outside Moscow’s jurisdiction. And today the same has happened, but with a flock which was more recently assembled from Kazakhstan, the Baltic States and, above all, from the Ukraine and Moldova, who as Non-Russians were treated like third-class citizens. Will they too reject Moscow’s jurisdiction, just like the post-1917 emigration?

Is it all a deliberate attempt at suicide, or just the nightmarish incompetence of choosing the worst possible episcopal candidates? How can the administration of the Russian Orthodox Church reform and revert to being quite simply the administration of the Orthodox Church of Russia, as it historically was? We suggest eight stages:

Abandon the Soviet legacy and rename itself ‘The Patriarchate of New Jerusalem’. The Patriarch and his administration could move physically to the New Jerusalem Monastery, founded by Patriarch Nikon in 1656 near the River Istra outside Moscow, and which I visited in 2007. On founding it, Patriarch Nikon recruited a number of monks of non-Russian origin as monks for the monastery, as it was intended to represent the multinational Orthodoxy of the Heavenly Jerusalem. Here is the true vocation of the Russian Orthodox clergy, not in corruption, depravity, nationalist politics and war, but in pastoral care, in love for all Orthodox people. For why else did God grant the Orthodox world the potential protection of by far the largest and richest country in the world? Was it so that it could become a bastion of racist nationalism? Or to become atheised and militarised Stalinist State puppets? Or to become a clerical caste of bureaucrats obsessed with protocols and ritualism? Or to become greedy, grasping capitalists and mini-oligarchs?

It restores communion with all other canonical (therefore not the present fake Church in the Ukraine, known as the OCU) Local Churches and refrocks all the clergy, who had been uncanonically ‘defrocked’ for purely political and nationalistic reasons since January 2022.
It grants Autocephaly to the Church in the New Ukraine (that is, to the Church for Ukrainians in the Ukrainian-speaking Ukraine) and to the Church in Belarus, and founds the Baltic Orthodox Church (for Latvia, Estonia, Lithuania and Finland) and the African Orthodox Church for Sub-Saharan Africa. (This would leave mainly Muslim North Africa to the jurisdiction of the Greek Patriarchate of Alexandria, the Coptic Church and the Churches of Ethiopia and Eritrea).
It grants permission to all Orthodox in Moldova the right to join the Autonomous Bessarabian Metropolia of the Romanian Orthodox Church, and to all Moldovans in the Diaspora to join the Romanian Church, if they so wish.
It reaffirms the Autocephaly given in 1971 to American Orthodox of the OCA, modifying its name to the NAOC (Northern American Orthodox Church), defining its territory as the USA, Canada, Greenland and the offshore islands of Bermuda and St Pierre et Miquelon. It then invites all other Orthodox in that territory to join it, unless they are still much attached to their countries of origin.
It sells all other property belonging to the Patriarchs of Moscow and uses the receipts for missionary work in these new Local Churches, especially in poor Africa.
It defrocks all financially, sexually or ecumenically corrupt bishops and priests.
It closes the ecumenist DECR (Department of External Church Relations, in Russian OVTsS) and replaces it with a Department of Inter-Orthodox Relations (DIOR, or in Russian, OMPO).

If only one of these suggestions were followed, it would be a miracle. The implementation of any of them would in any case be to take one step closer to the long-awaited Great Council of the whole Church. There the Catholicity of the Church could at last be affirmed, instead of being denied by narrow nationalism, Russian, Greek or any other.

The Times of London, Monday 3 November 2025

The leading article, written by Jennifer Kennedy, and comparing the Romanian Orthodox Church and the Russian Orthodox Church, was published on Page 34 of The Times of the above date. It contains many factual mistakes (there are 16, not 17, Local Orthodox Churches, and the Russian Orthodox Church has for the moment 145 million members, not 95 million). It also contains much Russophobic propaganda and disinformation (the absurd description of an ‘all-out invasion of the Ukraine’ by Russia and the non-existent Russian backing of the Non-EU and highly popular candidate for President of Romania) and other ridiculous tropes. These have been as usual reproduced and paid for on State orders by Western propaganda mouthpieces, such as The Times.

However, the article is correct in its description of those who in England left the Russian Orthodox Church Outside Russia for the Romanian Orthodox Church (ourselves) – 12 clergy and 5,000 people. However, this took place nearly four years ago and not because of the new Cathedral in Bucharest. Moreover, none of this was at all because of disillusionment, but because of our persecution by the Russian Church authorities, a persecution for resisting schism. This was carried out by a local bishop, despite the warnings of Patriarch Kyrill not to pursue this persecution, and the lies and slanders that followed.

And there is no rivalry between the Russian and Romanian Churches; the new Cathedral of the People’s Salvation in Bucharest is a monument to the triumph of Christ over the dictatorships of both Fascism and Communism which Romania suffered in the last century. Nevertheless, the article is correct in asserting that certain leading bishops of the Russian Orthodox Church have tried to fuse Orthodoxy with Russian nationalism. And this did indeed alienate millions of lifelong Orthodox, Ukrainians, Moldovans, English, French and many others, including even some well-known Russians. They fused the spiritual with crude nationalism at their peril and they are now reaping its bitter fruits, which have so discredited the administration of the Russian Orthodox Church. The once Persecuted Church has indeed become a Persecuting Church.

Hallowe’en: A Pastoral Message

Tomorrow is the dreaded Hallowe’en. What shall we do? Here is our eight-point plan:

Put up a cross or an icon on the outside of the front door.
Make sure you keep together as a family. If you want, you can invite another family to your house, so the children can be together. Children do not leave the house or go round other people’s houses and do not dress up in scary costumes.
If the children want to dress up in nice costumes, why not?
Make sure you have some sweets and chocolate for the children. Something special and different.
Have a competition for drawings. Suggested slogans:

Christ is Risen! And that is why we do not believe in Hallowe’en.

Today is our Easter in October.

We believe in LIFE, not death!

Death is Dead. Life is for Living.

Or maybe you can find a better slogan.

Hold a talent competition, with singing or dancing or something else the children (or the adults) can do.
Watch some nice film together or listen to some nice music.
The children can stay up later than usual.

Equality, Liberty, Fraternity? A New Motto for the Values of the Post-Western World?

After the fall of the officially Communist USSR in 1991, the old political division between left and right ceased to have any meaning. The new, post-1991 division has been between Elite and People, Globalist and Sovereignist. With the collapse of the US-led domination of the world (‘Globalism’), after the Western defeat in the Ukraine, the utterly discrediting, Western-sponsored genocide in Gaza and the appearance of the Russian-founded, Chinese-backed, but multipolar, worldwide BRICS organisation, a real United Nations, a new motto will be required. The very old and hypocritical, French-invented one of ‘Equality, Liberty, Fraternity’ has been discredited. A new motto is required, which will work among all World Civilisations.

There is no ‘Equality’ in Western or any other society, there never has been and never will be. All Western societies, including Palace-governed, class-ridden French society, are run by and for oligarchies, the symbols of inequality. In any case the word ‘equality’ has been discredited because it has come to mean making everyone the same, that is, levelling down to the lowest common denominator, ‘one size fits all’ (with the exception, of course, of those belonging to the ruling elites, as for example in Soviet or Chinese ‘Communism’). On the other hand, there is such a thing as justice – not Equality, but Equity.

There is no ‘Liberty’ in any society, since ‘raison d’etat’ or State tyranny in one form or another will always prevail. For example, in the absence of real democracy (currently oligarchies put forward their own two slavish puppets and the people have to choose between them), we see the paramilitary brutality, repression and censorship in current Western Police-States. And in any case ‘liberty’ in Western societies has come to mean personal depravity, perversion and irresponsibility, almost to the point of anarchy. We suggest Responsibility.

As for ‘Fraternity’, that means the association of brothers. What about the other half of humanity – the sisters? We suggest the word should be replaced by the word ‘Community’. This would be a reminder and an antidote to the raging individualism of the Western world, with its collapsing infrastructure, crime, urban filth, graffiti, litter and general selfishness and narcissism. This is not acceptable to any World Civilisation, including to the Western Civilisation of the future, which is yet to be reborn.

And so we have a new motto, the values of: Equity, Responsibility, Community.

France, 28 October 2025

How Will the Greco-Russian Church Civil War End?

All wars end in peace. Sometimes peace comes through compromises and ceasefires (the Korean War), sometimes through the total victory of one side and the unconditional surrender of the other (the Vietnam War). The present Civil War between Constantinople and Moscow, the rivalry between the ‘Second Rome’ and the ‘Third Rome’ for control of the Church, began long ago. This rivalry is purely political, as no part of the Church controls the whole. The Church consists of diverse parts and has never been controlled by one local part.

True, the First Rome, in what is now called Italy and which inherited from the pagan Roman Empire the obsessive desire to dominate all others, tried to control all. This only ended up in the self-justifying filioque heresy, which claimed that the Pope of Rome, and not Christ, is the Head of the Church and he has total control of the Holy Spirit. This heresy came to be called Roman Catholicism. Originally it affected only a small and backward part of Christendom, mainly newly-converted, post-Roman peoples and Germanic and Celtic tribes.

The First Rome, with its militarily conquered subject peoples, from Sicily to England, finally separated itself from the Church in the eleventh century. The First Rome was already notorious for carrying out bloody wars, conquests, persecutions, indulgences, tortures and inquisitions in its attempts to impose itself. Later, however, in the sixteenth century, it itself split into many parts, with most of the Germanic peoples revolting against its Latin Yoke. The Latin Roman Catholics became far more numerous only through the crimes of the Western colonisation of Latin America, Black Africa and parts of Asia like the Philippines much later.

It was this same will to dominate that had already tormented the Second Rome and in part led to the fifth-century nationalistic splits from it of Nestorians and Miaphysites, the latter group existing to this day in Egypt, Ethiopia, Eritrea, Armenia and parts of Syria. As for the Third Rome, its will to dominate resulted in the disastrous, seventeenth-century ‘Old Ritualist’ schism, created by the enforcement of new rituals by the Russian State. As a result, the Russian word for schism (‘raskol’) came to have the purely political connotations of treason to the State.

Both those in the Second and the Third Rome who want to dominate the rest of the Church today have been much influenced by the millennial example of the First Rome, which they often visit. The temptations to obtain more power and more wealth are very great among some. This will for centralisation, whether of the First, Second or Third Romes, is purely secular. What is the Church perspective? The Church view is made clear from the New Testament. This is of independent Local Churches in different places, which share the same Faith.

Thus, at that time none of the seven Local Churches of Corinth, Ephesus, Colossae, Philippi, Galatia, Thessaloniki and Rome ever tried to dominate any other or even tried to impose something on another. This continues to be the overall situation in the (Orthodox) Church, where 16 Local Churches, now not covering cities, but countries or peoples, continue to exist. They are tied together by the same Faith; the current separation of a few of the sixteen is only because of political rivalry. This unity of Faith, in all places and at all times, is known as ‘Catholicity’.

Catholicity is quite different from ‘Catholicism’. The latter, by definition an ‘ism’ or ideology, denotes the attempt by one to dominate all others. Once Constantinople and Moscow are depoliticised and they rid themselves of their Imperialist pretensions (= the will to dominate and impose), that is, once they have been ‘dePapalised’, then Catholicity will return through the gathering of all at an inclusive, politically free Church Council, which will be free to set its own agenda. For Church Councils are where Catholicity, the Unity of the Faith in Diversity, is expressed.

In concrete terms, this means that Constantinople must give up its claims to traditional Russian Church territory (Finland, Estonia, Lithuania, the Ukraine etc) and that in turn Moscow must give up its claim to traditional Greek Church territory (Africa). In order to avoid humiliation for both, the clear way forward is to grant these territories Autocephaly, tcreating new and neutral Autocephalous Churches. Only then can serious discussions begin on joint Autocephaly being granted to areas where mixed Orthodox have lived in numbers for generations.

This means new Autocephalous Churches in Western Europe, Northern America (95% English-speaking), Latin America and the Caribbean, and Oceania. These Churches can only be formed by all the Autocephalous Churches which have populations there, not simply the Greek and Russian, whose populations in those Continents are often only a small minority. In Western Europe, the majority belongs to the Romanian Church, in Northern America and Oceania perhaps to Constantinople, in Latin America and the Caribbean probably to Antioch.

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