The tiny Russian Catholic Church, which suffered the savagery of communism for over seven decades, has, at least in operational terms, fared little better since the fall of the Berlin Wall in 1989. But this time, the cause was not communist apparatchiks. It was the Vatican’s Curia. Bishop Joseph Werth SJ, of Novosibirsk. The Vatican, which had fought hard to bring down Soviet communism, then did little to protect its true Russian Church, as defined by its own Canon Law. Instead, …
