In Russia, Novgorod church returned to Catholics amid new limits on religious freedom
March 24, 2021
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Posted by: Randal Mandock -
Mar. 24, 2021 10:48 AM ET USA
Are these "new limits" as outrageous as the cited article might have us believe? Or are they a rational response to the religious liberalism seen throughout the European Church, with the German and Irish Churches leading in this mad rush towards schism? Was the Russian response to halt adoptions of Russian children by certain Western nations a "crackdown" against better homes for these children, or was it a safety measure to protect the children from being raised in a "same sex" household?
