By Allison Burr In the greatest of ironies, a recent issue of Harvard Magazine has condemned parents being at home with their children all day, even while the governments across America have now required it for the past several weeks due to the COVID-19 pandemic. My efforts to recast homeschooling in a less-threatening light are rooted in two […]
Christianity is Europe’s Only Hope
And not only Europe; America as well. by Peter Wolfgang “Europe is the faith and the faith is Europe,” observed the English writer Hilaire Belloc almost 100 years ago. Western Civilization makes no sense apart from its Christian origin and identity. The last 100 years has proven him right. If our civilization makes no sense […]
Ukrainian Nationalist-Schismatics Announce Seizure of Kiev Caves Lavra Cathedral
On Wednesday, March 7, representatives of Dimitry Korchinsky’s radical youth organization “Brotherhood” held an illicit “moleben” in the Dormition Cathedral of the Kiev Caves Lavra, which they dubbed the beginning of the seizure of the monastery, reports UNIAN. During the “moleben,” one of the members read out a “prayer” for the “Moscow occupiers.” Korchinsky made […]
Moscow Church Leader Criticizes Protestant Theologians
Orthodox-Protestant Theological Dialogue is ‘D-E-D’ Dead The dialogue with protestant churches has hit a dead end, but the Russian Orthodox Church hopes for cooperation with them in the humanitarian sphere, the patriarch of Moscow and all-Rus declared in an interview with Bulgarian news media. Patriarch of Moscow and all-Rus Kirill will visit Bulgaria on 2 […]
Russian Church is Making Huge Progress with Social Work – Here Are the Stats
Becasue ‘faith without works is dead.’ Currently Russian Church’s first priority is creating ‘homes for moms,’ who refuse to perform an abortion (sometimes after the actions and rally’s of believers against abortion). Before the Revolution of 1917, many bemoaned the fact the Russian Orthodox Church did not perform enough social ministry. Today, that is very […]
The Role of the Bishop of Rome in the Communion of the Churches in the First Millenium
Source: Orthodox Ethos HT: AOIUSA By Protopresbyter Anastasios Gotsopoulos The 14th Meeting of the Joint International Committee for the Orthodox-Roman Catholic Theological Dialogue in Chieti, Italy (15-22.9.2016). Were the Western Orthodox Fathers ignored in the committee’s search for a common understanding of the role of the Pope in the First Millenium? FROM THE CAREFUL STUDY OF THE ACTS […]
Uniate Clergy Physically Attack Orthodox in Kolomyia, Ukraine
Parish rector Fr. Vasily Kobelsky noted that the riots had begun the previous Sunday, when a Uniate priest threatened the Orthodox faithful with a Kalashnikov gun. The Ivano-Frankivsk Diocese of the Ukrainian Orthodox Church has published a video showing clergy of the Ukrainian Greek Catholic Church brutally beating women and other Orthodox believers outside the […]
Albanian Ministry of Culture Hands Over Orthodox Church to Catholics for Mass
The Holy Synod of the Albanian Orthodox Church released a statement on Saturday regarding an incident that occurred the today before with an Orthodox church in the southern Albanian village of Labovë. As the hierarchs learned only through a Facebook post, the Albanian Ministry of Culture gave the famous Dormition Church over to a group […]
Sir Steven Runciman: “Within the Next 100 Years Orthodoxy will be the Only Historical Church”
This is the final interview conducted by the magazine PEMPTOUSIA with the great Byzantologist Sir Steven Runciman at the Holy Great Monastery of Vatopedi, on 14/7/2000, where he was hosted during his three-day stay on Mount Athos for the arrival of Ecumenical Patriarch Bartholomew, who was to inaugurate the new sacristy of the monastery and the […]
We May Be Entering a ‘Post-Secular’ Age
by Daniel Lattier Contrary to what you hear, religion is on the rise. The common narrative we hear today is that the world is becoming increasingly secularized, and that traditional religion is becoming a relic of the past. But there’s a counter-narrative that’s gaining currency, namely, that secularism is in crisis, and that the world is […]