 Complete the following phrase:  The approach of the East German ruling party to organised religion was not as relentless as that of sister parties in some of the other Soviet Bloc socialist states. Nevertheless, the ruling parties could not be expected to welcome signs that a church organisation might be presenting itself as an alternative source of ideas or influence. Father Gordian Landwehrs popularity as a preacher did not go unchallenged in the media. An article appeared in the Sächsische Zeitung describing Landwehr as a NATO preacher in the robes of a Jesuit Natoprediger im Jesuitengewand. After such an unsubtle rebuke, leaders of the Dominican Order in West Germany expected that Landwehr would be arrested at any moment and requested his return to the Federal Republic. He himself was certain that the East German authorities would have welcomed such an outcome. But with the backing of the recently appointed Bishop of Berlin, Julius Döpfner, Gordian Landwehr chose to stay where he was, to the east of the 