WOW. (h/t – The Corner)
Mikhail Gorbachev, the last Communist leader of the Soviet Union, has acknowledged his Christian faith for the first time, paying a surprise visit to pray at the tomb of St Francis of Assisi.
Mr Gorbachev’s surprise visit confirmed decades of rumours that, although he was forced to publicly pronounce himself an atheist, he was in fact a Christian, and casts a meeting with Pope John Paul II in 1989 in a new light.
Mr Gorbachev, 77, was baptised into the Russian Orthodox Church and his parents were Christians.
Ronald Reagan, the former United States president, allegedly told his close aides on a number of occasions that he felt his opponent during the Cold War was a “closet believer”.
As someone who grew up admiring Ronald Reagan’s crusade to end the Communist “evil empire,” this is completely stunning news to me. It appears that one US President truly did look into the soul of his Soviet counterpart and saw something no one else did.
It sure says volumes about the morally bankrupt Communist doctrine that one of its own footsoldiers has turned to the polar opposite answer for his spiritual needs.
Finally, I would note that this story is notably absent from all of the major “mainstream” media news outlets.
-Bruce (GayPatriot)
Welcome back to the fold, Gorby!
"Nostroyav!"Â (For those of you who don’t know Russian, that means "Good health.")
As an Orthodox Christian also, I applaud Gorby’s return to Mother Church. Looks like Stalin did not succeed in eliminating God from the Russians’ daily lives.
Regards,
Peter H.
In the same spirit – given that Egypt was a Christian country for several centuries before it was conquered by blood and sword and gradually forced to become Muslim – the Pope has baptized a somewhat famous Egyptian Muslim convert, this Easter.
oh lord, so how soon are canonizing St. Ronny?  Interesting how he could see into the soul of a soviet but conveniently could not recall his direct involvement in the sale of weapons to one of our biggest enemies, which was not only illegal but very much against the will of an overwhelming majority of the American people.  Isn’t selling weapons to your enemies a traitorous act?
You keep giving Ronny too much credit – he just happened to be in the right place at the right time. Â The greed of the communist leaders was had been killing the economic systems of their country for decades it just so happened to fall apart while Reagan was in office – they had no choice but to open to the outside world. Â And by your posting, are we to take it that your a better person if you become a Christian than if you’re not religious or the member of a different religion?
Ronald Reagan was like a father figure to me. What a great man.. Shame on the republican party for abandoning his princples and allowing the america-hating left seize control of the Congress.
We get the government we deserve.