<div style="margin: 12px 0px; font-family: arial; color: #333333; background: #ffffff; border: solid 4px #e5e5e5; width: 100%; clear: left;"><div class="CM_CTB_Content_Wrap" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;background-color: #ffffff;"><div style="border-bottom: solid 1px #dcdcdc; white-space: nowrap; margin-bottom: 8px; background-color: #eeeeee ;background-image: url(http://clipmarks.com/images/source-bg.gif); background-repeat: repeat-x; height: 24px; line-height: 24px; vertical-align: middle; padding-bottom: 4px; color: #666666; font-size: 10px;" ><a href="http://clipmarks.com/clip-to-blog/" title="see clips that are hot right now"><img src="http://content.clipmarks.com/blog_embed/52629045-f591-428b-be87-05803802e992/66DEA5FA-C4C1-4D58-9EBD-500364D03501/" alt="" width="19" height="19" border="0" style="vertical-align: middle; margin: 0px 4px; display: inline; border: none; float:none;" /></a>clipped from <a title="http://www.interfax-religion.com/print.php?act=news&id=5025" href="http://www.interfax-religion.com/print.php?act=news&id=5025" style="font-size: 11px;">www.interfax-religion.com</a></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.interfax-religion.com/print.php?act=news&id=5025"><DIV>The Moscow Patriarchate finds no sense in condemning communism as an ideology. </DIV> <BR /><DIV> "Church doesn't give estimations to political philosophy and political doctrines. When they say Church should condemn communism as philosophy I don't think it's correct," deputy head of the Moscow Patriarchate Department for External Church Relations Archpriest Vsevolod Chaplin said on air of <I>Russian News Service.</I></DIV> <BR /><DIV> He noted there were believers among the Communists and "many people once urged Church to condemn Communism."</DIV></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.interfax-religion.com/print.php?act=news&id=5025"> According to Fr. Vsevolod, "it's difficult" to say what communism is today as "some left political movements speak about ideals of justice. And these ideals are also important for an Orthodox Christian."</blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.interfax-religion.com/print.php?act=news&id=5025"> It is quite a different matter (and according to him, "many priests have positively stated it") that "society and state should condemn crimes of the Bolshevist regime</blockquote></div><div style="margin: 0px 6px 6px 4px;"><table style="font-size: 11px;border-spacing: 0px;padding: 0px;" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" width="100%"><tr><td style="background:transparent;border-width:0px;padding:0px;">&nbsp;</td><td align="right" style="background:transparent;border-width:0px;padding:0px;width:107px" width="107"><a href="http://clipmarks.com/share/66DEA5FA-C4C1-4D58-9EBD-500364D03501/blog/" title="blog or email this clip"><img src="http://content9.clipmarks.com/images/c2b-foot.png" border="0" alt="blog it" width="107" height="17" style="border-width:0px;padding:0px;margin:0px;" /></a></td></tr></table></div></div>

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