"Any other attempt at condemnation would be a pitiable spectacle..."

So, asserting an unprecedented, universal, and automatic (without a competent court of ecumenical significance) anathematization of all local Churches is neither serious nor reasonable. Therefore, the following phrase from the "Commentary" [by two ROCiE bishops, on an article by the current author] cannot be considered correct: "To remain in ecclesiastical communion with anathematized organizations means to fall under these anathemas; therefore, canonical communion with those outside the Church is impossible." In any case, from the history of the Orthodox Church, I am not aware of any instance where autocephalous Churches were anathematized in such a manner. This is something new, and everything here is built on proud self-judgment and self-will: they decided on their own, they condemned on their own. They themselves condemned the autocephalous Churches as devoid of grace, and then also all those who maintain communion with them, probably forgetting that the ROCOR never broke relations with the local Churches. And if one follows the zealot logic, then communion with the Serbs is quite sufficient for falling under their own anathema.

Metropolitan Vitaly did not want to participate in the "farce"—a trial against the local Churches, while his supposed zealot followers, intoxicated by "standing in the truth," condemned everyone without trial or investigation...

Here are the words of Metropolitan Vitaly, who stated the following in 1996: "There is no doubt that the Ecumenical Patriarchs, along with the other heads of the local Orthodox Churches, by actively engaging in Ecumenism, have placed themselves on the bench of the accused. However, the Russian Orthodox Church Outside of Russia does not consider itself to have such power and right as to pronounce judgment upon them, leaving this responsible matter to a possible future lawful Ecumenical Council. Any other attempt at condemnation would be a pitiable spectacle, incompatible with our honest seventy-five-year-long Orthodox canonical stance along the thousand-year path of the Russian Church’s history." -- Perhaps, it could not be said any better.

 

- Два представления о Церкви Христовой [Two Conceptions of the Church of Christ], by Subdeacon Vladimir Kirillov (ROCOR-A), published online July 5, 2013. 

Russian original link: http://internetsobor.org/index.php/stati/avtorskaya-kolonka/vladimir-kirillov-dva-predstavleniya-o-tserkvi-khristovoj#asset-kirillov_v_y-33147