The move was aimed also at reconciling with a group of schismatic traditionalists, the Society of St.

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This year's bishops' council voted to excommunicate Metropolitan Filaret of Kiev, who has set up a schismatic church in Ukraine one of several that now battle for that nation's souls.

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Calming and broad-minded here, as in her earlier works, she applies a sympathetic and subtly humane eye to texts that are neither subtle nor sympathetically humane but lit instead by schismatic fury.

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