In Defense of Fr. Dimitry was written by Fr. Seraphim in 1980 just after Fr. Dimitry Dudko was forced by the KGB to make a public pseudo-confession. In this writing, Fr. Seraphim directly addresses issues of today, such as how Roca should consider the MP, what are the exact places of the jurisdictions on the "map," Russia's role in our spiritual present and future. And with this being written shortly before his death, again we see that Fr. Seraphim was a loyal son of Rocor to his death and in no way "softening" towards the idea of joining world Orthodoxy. Neither did he shed any "bitterness" – which he never had in the first place – that's only in some people's imaginations... The great value to us, in this writing, is that we see Fr. Seraphim's Royal Path thinking applied to a real-life example. We see that Royal Path thinking can only come forth from a "believing heart."
Taken from The Orthodox Word, #92, May-June 1980:
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