Our little boat, sailing in troubled waters, must always remain moored to the great Russian ship." While the Catholic Church mourned the death of Pope Francis, in Moscow, beneath the gilded Kremlin, Patriarch Kirill and the Russian president performed a sort of theological-political ritual: the staging of the Serbian Church's attachment to the "Russian world." Little noticed in the West, this moment could prove decisive. The armed wing of the next invasion is now the Orthodox religion. The next objective was stated in Moscow on April 22: to capture Belgrade.