Click here to listen to a radio interview on this topic with Terry Mattingly. by Terry Mattingly Father Patrick Henry Reardon’s note to his flock at Chicago’s All Saints Orthodox Church was short and simple — yet a sign of how complicated life is becoming for traditional religious believers. “Because the State of Illinois, through […]
How Christianity Invented Children
And don’t you forget it. by Pascal-Emmanuel Gobry We have forgotten just how deep a cultural revolution Christianity wrought. In fact, we forget about it precisely because of how deep it was: There are many ideas that we simply take for granted as natural and obvious, when in fact they didn’t exist until the arrival […]
The Orthodox Church Strongly Endorses the March for Marriage, Encourages All Faithful to Participate
From George Michaelopoulos at Monomakhos.com Tomorrow promises to be an exciting day in the history of American Orthodoxy. Thanks to the leadership of His Eminence Metopolitan Joseph of the Antiochian Orthodox Archdiocese of North America, several Orthodox clergymen will be leading the March. One in particular, Fr. Hans Jacobse (who runs the American Orthodox Institute […]
Millennials’ Pro-Life Commitment Wows Bishops
“You look out in the crowd and you see so many young people,” remarked Orthodox Bishop Michael of New York and New Jersey. He said it gave him great hope for the future of the pro-life movement. The primate of the Orthodox Church in America, Metropolitan Tikhon, shared that hope. “I do feel like in […]
A Letter from Papa Demetri
My beloved Brothers and Sisters in Christ Jesus, On December 29th, our Holy Orthodox Church commemorates the 14,000 Holy Innocents, and many of their mothers, who were slaughtered by Herod’s soldiers in one day. In the United States, because of a disgusting, satanic “law”, we “legally” slaughter an average of over 3,300 pre-born – and […]
Statement on Homosexuality (from 1984)
The following information originally appeared in The Word, January 1984, pp. 6-11. The Word is the official news magazine of the Antiochian Archdiocese. Published monthly (with the exception of July and August) the magazine circulates to the households of all members of the Antiochian Archdiocese and other subscribers including libraries and seminaries. The position of […]
Dishonorable Passions
Compiled by Chris Banescu For those who want to ‘re-imagine’ Christian morality. St. Paul the Apostle – “Because of this did God give them up to dishonorable passions, for even their females did change their natural function into that which is against nature; and in like manner also the males having left the natural use […]
Meaningless Church
I continued to call myself a Christian into my early twenties. When I finally stopped… it was because being a Christian no longer meant anything.
Is the LGBT a New Reality?
by Fr. Lawrence Farley The battle between those who condemn homosexual activity as sinful and those who celebrate it as a valid alternative is heating up, and the sound of its fury is shaking the walls and rattling the windows even of the Orthodox Church. It’s like Dylan prophesied long ago: The times they are […]
The #1 Reason Teens Keep The Faith
by David Briggs Parents set a kind of glass ceiling of religious commitment, above which their children rarely rise. In other words, it is the parents who need to be trained better. The holy grail for helping youth remain religiously active as young adults has been at home all along: parents. Mothers and fathers who […]