“What is right and just one may openly approve, and what is evil and unrighteous one must as openly condemn, that is the Church’s business. But to meddle with the affairs of secular politics is neither the course of wisdom or of duty for a priest”
(St. Tikhon of Moscow, 1923 interview)
 
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