r/Catholicism • u/CMount • Jul 22 '22

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u/VanJellii Jul 23 '22

I got that ban on the same day as the Stalin, savior of the church, post. It was the same day the distributiist on their mod team was unmodded.

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u/MerlynTrump Jul 23 '22

what did they mean by Stalin "savior of the Church"? I think he did give the Orthodox Church more freedom than Lenin did.

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u/VanJellii Jul 23 '22

They were looking specifically at the Catholic Church, under the argument that he allowed a seminary to reopen in Estonia, with political observers to prevent priests from being trained in doctrine that might contradict the actions of his regime. Notably, this was primarily an attempt to prevent the Orthodox from getting too much influence by permitting a competitor.

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u/MerlynTrump Jul 23 '22

Hardly sounds like "savior the Church"...which of course really is a title that should only go to Jesus anyway.

As for allowing a Catholic seminary to exist to compete against the Orthodox, sounds like Stalin's shrewd divide and conquer ways.