Quotable notes

"We don't want him [Pope John Paul II] to come here and proselytize, to be a missionary. What do we need that for? His program is like a nightmare for us. If an enemy comes to you, are you going to keep quiet? And he is an enemy of man's souls."

- Father Gerontii, a priest at the Pecherska Lavra Monastery in Kyiv, which is controlled by the Ukrainian Orthodox Church - Moscow Patriarchate, as quoted on June 19 by RFE/RL Poland, Belarus and Ukraine Report.

Copyright © The Ukrainian Weekly, June 24, 2001, No. 25, Vol. LXIX

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