Father Benedict’s attitude towards Catholicism

In Paris, the Russian Orthodox Theological Institute of Saint Denis has been in existence for a year, with students from many nations and denominations. Archimandrite Benedict Ghiuș, Doctor of Theology, Assistant at the Department of Mysticism at the Theological Faculty in Bucharest, was invited by the Romanian Government, apparently at the suggestion of the Russian Patriarch, to go to Paris for the academic year 1947-1948 to teach one of the religious sciences at the above-mentioned Institute. Archimandrite Benedict Ghiuș accepted the invitation. I asked him what his attitude towards Catholicism would be – knowing that the mission of the Institute is the uncompromising struggle for the affirmation of Orthodoxy – he replied that it could not be other than Orthodox one. And the answer was given to me so quickly, he who, before giving an answer, pauses for a few seconds with his head bowed in reflection.

(Dudu Velicu – The Orthodox Church in the period of Romania’s Sovietisation. Daily notes. 1945-1947, Bucharest 2004, p. 290)