During the Ceaușescu era, the priests of the Orthodox Church not only complied with the requests of the government, but they also showed sycophancy.Deletant, p. 212 Many priests collaborated with the secret police, the Securitate, giving it information they received from confessions;Turcescu and Stan, p. 73 according to the reports of a Securitate officer, as many as 80% of the priests were informers.
