Moscow--Officials of the Russian Federation have now either deported, or denied re-entry to the country, of seven Catholic clerics, a bishop, five priests and a monk. All the clergy involved are foreign-born, mainly Polish. The latest expulsion, on September 9, was that of Fr. Jaroslav Wisnieski, who was detained on arrival at Khabarovsk airport and then expelled. In April 2002, Bishop Jerzy Mazur was refused permission to return to his diocese in Eastern Siberia.
The attack on the Catholic Church has accelerated since last February when the Pope resurrected four new dioceses which had existed in Russia before the 1917 revolution. This led the Russian Orthodox Church …
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