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Oct 13, 2026
speaker_2HOST
We see this exact same dynamic of archaic medieval cruelty just two years later in 2005 with the case of Maricica Irina Cornici.
speaker_3HOST
Maricica's case takes place in a Romanian Orthodox convent.
speaker_3HOST
She was a 23-year-old nun.
speaker_2HOST
OK, so a very different setting.
Justin ChangCORRESPONDENT
The gifted Romanian writer-director Cristian Mungiu makes tense realist thrillers that lay bare his country's history of corruption and authoritarianism.
Justin ChangCORRESPONDENT
In Beyond the Hills, he took aim at intolerance within the Romanian Orthodox Church.
Justin ChangCORRESPONDENT
In his 2007 masterpiece, 4 Months, 3 Weeks and 2 Days, he laid bare the cruelties of the communist dictatorship in the late 1980s.
Justin ChangCORRESPONDENT
That film won the Palme d'Or at Cannes and announced Mungiu as a major international talent.
Kellie JohnsonGUEST
You should...
Kellie JohnsonGUEST
Well, basically, it was a, it was a, that torture experiment, well, a torture that they conducted on Orthodox Romanian, uh, Christians.
Kellie JohnsonGUEST
I screenshot.
Kellie JohnsonGUEST
I'll have, I'll send you this, um, this whole thing, but let me just read this to you.
Mordechai TorczynerHOST
He was also politically savvy.
Mordechai TorczynerHOST
He developed ties with the Romanian Orthodox Church, the Catholic Church, and the Queen Mother of Romania.
Mordechai TorczynerHOST
Through this, he saved thousands of Jews.
Mordechai TorczynerHOST
He also wrote quite a few sefarim, including the astonishingly encyclopedic Yisrael v'Shoreshav on Jewish thought.
Richard WurmbrandNARRATOR
At night, Satanists would gather in the museum for prayer and chanting before the statue.
Richard WurmbrandNARRATOR
Religious obscenities It might be in some sense logical that communists would arrest priests and pastors as counter-revolutionaries, but why were priests compelled by the Marxists in the Romanian prison of Pitești to say mass over excrement and urine? Why were Christians tortured into taking communion with these as the elements? Why such an obscene mockery of religion? Why did the Romanian Orthodox priest, Roman Braga, whom I knew personally when he was a prisoner of the Communists and who presently resides in the USA, have his teeth knocked out one by one with an iron rod in order to make him blaspheme? The Communists had explained to him and others, If we kill you Christians, you go to heaven, but we don't want you to be crowned martyrs.
Richard WurmbrandNARRATOR
You should curse God first and then go to hell.
Richard WurmbrandNARRATOR
in the prison of pteshti the communists would force a very religious prisoner to be baptized daily by putting his head into the barrel in which his fellow-sufferers had filled with their necessities meanwhile obliging the other prisoners to sing the baptismal service A theology student was forced to dress in white sheets, in imitation of Christ's robe, and a phallus made of soap was hung around his neck with a string.
Jeremy HansonHOST
this story requires a little care here because it would be easy and lazy to point at a faith and say, look what they do.
Jeremy HansonHOST
The Romanian Orthodox Church did not defend what happened at Tenaciu.
Jeremy HansonHOST
The church actually condemned it.
Jeremy HansonHOST
The word church officials used was abominable.
9 MINS LATER
Jeremy HansonHOST
The sentences came down.
Jeremy HansonHOST
Corigiano to seven years, one nun to six, the remaining three to go.
Jeremy HansonHOST
The Romanian Orthodox Church closed the monastery and defrocked him.
Jeremy HansonHOST
Corigiano was released on parole in November 2017 after serving two-thirds of his sentence.
Jeff HemmerGUEST
It's a perversion of masculinity.
Todd WilkenHOST
Is it a coincidence that Tate is a Muslim? I think he was raised Orthodox, Romanian Orthodox, but he converted to Islam in 2022.
Jeff HemmerGUEST
It's not a coincidence.
Jeff HemmerGUEST
It's a deliberate decision.
Zach LeeGUEST
There is no separating the church and the state, because like you said, the state is going to enforce morality, and where is it going to get it? It's going to get it from the church.
Zach LeeGUEST
That's why you have the Russian Orthodox, the Romanian Orthodox, the Greek Orthodox.
Zach LeeGUEST
That's why in the Middle Ages, you have to have the pope crown the king, the king submit to the pope.
Zach LeeGUEST
So to separate politics and religion is a foreign concept if you're talking about Christianity.
Carl BroggiHOST
They believe there are seven archangels.
Carl BroggiHOST
And if you're a Roman Catholic or from the Greek Orthodox faith or Romanian Orthodox or one of those branches...
Carl BroggiHOST
They actually have the seven archangels named, including Michael and Gabriel.
Carl BroggiHOST
I don't know if they're archangels, but I do know they are a high order of angels who are ready to blow their trumpets.