Metropolitan Vitaly on Judging "Official Orthodoxy"

“…Now we see that all the Patriarchs, absolutely all the Patriarchs—I will use a mild word—have ‘slipped.’ Of course, who will judge them? God forbid—it certainly won’t be us! We shall leave that thought once and for all! Not us, and not even as some suggest to us… small… subdivisions of the Greek Church, the Romanian Church, the Bulgarian Church, saying that we should gather together… and then carry out…

“God forbid! We will never go along with such a mockery—never! The Russian Church Abroad will stand as it has always stood, entirely alone in an incredible solitude, but we are not to blame for this solitude. We have not taken a single step to be alone! We are alone only because all others have departed from the two-thousand-year path of the Church of Christ. They have departed—and that is a fact.

“But the Greeks are always unreasonable, they always overdo it, always go to extremes… But we do not even think of establishing any kind of tribunal. God preserve us—we would be a laughingstock to the whole world if we dared to do this! We simply cannot do it!”

- Metropolitan Vitaly of New York, from a talk with the clergy of the Western European Diocese at Lesna Monastery, June 24, 1997.

Source: О фарисейской «сверхправильности» и «сложном и деликатном вопросе» 1 [On Pharisaic “Super-Correctness” and the “Complex and Delicate Issue” ([Part] 1)], by Kirillov Vladimir Yurievich, dated March 15, 2008.