“He lived heroically to the end” but with “no understanding of either the limitations or the inadequacies of others”
I know Grigore Caraza very well. In fact, he is a friend of mine. A dear friend for whom I have the highest regard. He was one of the strongest opponents of the atrocities committed in the prisons, as well as the dehumanisation and mockery of human beings during the Aiud re-education. In the more than 20 years he spent in the dungeons, he never made the slightest compromise. He lived heroically to the end, as if he had no self-preservation. But (because there is a gift in his case) Grigore Caraza came out of prison with a crippled soul and a series of resentments and complexes.
He is not one of those whom suffering has made wiser, better and more understanding. Nor has it made him worse, it has only hardened his soul. He has no understanding of the limitations or shortcomings of others. He is always right and does not accept being contradicted. With a hypertrophied self, he seems to have neither a sense of proportion nor a sense of the ridiculous. Hyperbolising everything, he sometimes makes statements that border on the absurd…
(Demostene Andronescu, “The case of the monk Anania. Response to an abject temptation of moral assassination”, in Puncte cardinale, year XVI, no. 4/184, April 2006, pp. 10, 14 | Partially online at razvan-codrescu.blogspot.ro)
Note: The reference is made in response to Grigore Caraza’s virulent reaction to the position taken by the editorial staff of “Cardinal Points” in defence of Archbishop Bartholomew Anania in the face of the media lynching to which he was subjected in 2006, a lynching orchestrated in particular by the journalist Ion Zubascu through the newspaper România liberă. This media attack was based on Caraza’s own memoirs, Aiud însângerat, in which the author describes Valeriu Anania as a moral murderer, Gheorghe Crăciun’s right-hand man in the re-education of Aiud. Unfortunately, Grigore Caraza, until the end of his life, maintained the same passionate and undifferentiated position towards His Holiness Bartholomew Ananias.