BOR accuses CNSAS

The Romanian Orthodox Church (BOR) questions the capacity of CNSAS (National Council for Research on the Communist Secret Service Archive) to give objective verdicts and accuses the campaign launched against the Orthodox clergymen. "We have witnessed during the past weeks a campaign backed up also by some members of the CNSAS College who have launched serious accusations, unproved in any way, against some passed away Orthodox clergymen, by the publication of some questionable denouncements from the ex-communist secret service archive", states the Patriarchy in a press release, as quoted by Rompres News Agency. The Patriarchy accuses this attempt of humiliating the Church and the troubling of the elections for the new Patriarch, that are to be held on September 12. Moreover, BOR appreciates that the historic context of the communist times have to be explained and made known in detail before assessing the different actions of some clergymen.

Cristian Andrei
Ziua Marti 4 Septembrie 2007 http://www.ziua.net/english