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The Vatican and the Kremlin
Fischer, Louis | January 15, 1930 issue

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When King Pius XI ascended the throne in 1922 he was presented with the opportunity of achieving the greatest papal conquest in modern times: he could break up the Greek Catholic church and convert ninety million Eastern Orthodox Christians to Roman Catholicism. The separation of church from state in Russia after the Bolshevik revolution had weakened Greek orthodoxy economically and politically and Communist campaigns against the church, specifically against the solidly and bitterly anti Bolshevik Greek church which represented one of the chief organized opponents of the new regime, appeared to make Rome's task easier.

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PIUS XI, Pope, 1857-1939; THRONES; CATHOLIC Church; CHRISTIANS; COMMUNISM; ORTHODOX Eastern Church
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