{"id":92488,"date":"2020-05-07T09:00:52","date_gmt":"2020-05-07T13:00:52","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=92488"},"modified":"2020-05-06T18:49:44","modified_gmt":"2020-05-06T22:49:44","slug":"nyt-a-breakdown-of-trust-pandemic-corrodes-church-state-ties-in-russia","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=92488","title":{"rendered":"(NYT) A \u2018Breakdown of Trust\u2019: Pandemic Corrodes Church-State Ties in Russia"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"css-1fanzo5 StoryBodyCompanionColumn\">\n<div class=\"css-53u6y8\">\n<p class=\"css-exrw3m evys1bk0\">A physics student at Moscow State University, Dmitri Pelipenko turned away from science in 2018 to devote himself to God, enrolling as a novice monk at Holy Trinity-St. Sergius Lavra, the spiritual center of the Russian Orthodox Church.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<aside class=\"css-ew4tgv\" aria-label=\"companion column\"><\/aside>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"css-1fanzo5 StoryBodyCompanionColumn\">\n<div class=\"css-53u6y8\">\n<p class=\"css-exrw3m evys1bk0\">His spiritual journey, derailed by the coronavirus, came to an abrupt and gruesome end shortly after the Orthodox Easter.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<aside class=\"css-ew4tgv\" aria-label=\"companion column\"><\/aside>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"css-1fanzo5 StoryBodyCompanionColumn\">\n<div class=\"css-53u6y8\">\n<p class=\"css-exrw3m evys1bk0\">Admitted to the hospital after testing positive for the illness, Mr. Pelipenko smashed a window on April 24, jumped outside, doused his body with fuel from a church lamp and set himself on fire. He died from his burns two days later.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<aside class=\"css-ew4tgv\" aria-label=\"companion column\"><\/aside>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"css-1fanzo5 StoryBodyCompanionColumn\">\n<div class=\"css-53u6y8\">\n<p class=\"css-exrw3m evys1bk0\">His monastery swiftly <a class=\"css-1g7m0tk\" title=\"\" href=\"http:\/\/blagoslovenie.su\/?fbclid=IwAR1QnvThBgYu_8VueSjuuGpCITR2wQXzcHDsZVd7Uw8HG1l4Tl0C_2_gc9Q\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">blamed the suicide on \u201cmental illness.\u201d<\/a> Others, however, asked whether the monk\u2019s clearly fragile mental state had been broken by the apocalyptic mood gripping wide swaths of the Russian church, some of whose leaders have challenged the state\u2019s stay-at-home orders as the work of the devil.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2020\/05\/05\/world\/europe\/russia-orthodox-church-coronavirus.html\">Read it all<\/a>.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\">\n<p dir=\"ltr\" lang=\"en\">Even as the monasteries of the Orthodox Church are besieged by the coronavirus, apocalyptic-minded priests balk at state restrictions on public worship <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/RdGvtcP5qd\">https:\/\/t.co\/RdGvtcP5qd<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 The New York Times (@nytimes) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/nytimes\/status\/1257958289285005312?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">May 6, 2020<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async=\"\" src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A physics student at Moscow State University, Dmitri Pelipenko turned away from science in 2018 to devote himself to God, enrolling as a novice monk at Holy Trinity-St. Sergius Lavra, the spiritual center of the Russian Orthodox Church. 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