The data is in. Divorce is bad for the environment. A novel study that links divorce with the environment shows a global trend of soaring divorce rates has created more households with fewer people, has taken up more space and has gobbled up more energy and water. Solution? Marriage or monastery. The data are in. […]
How to Guarantee You’ll Die Alone
Sologamy must be the meanest of modern marriage myths. Alas, Marrying Oneself is Now a Thing … Really by Carolyn Moynihan It sounds like a joke, but it is not entirely. Still recoiling from the insanity of marriage between two people of the same sex, we are told that people — women largely — are […]
Statement of the Holy Synod of the OCA on Sincerely Held Religious Beliefs Regarding Marriage
The following statement was approved by the Holy Synod of Bishops of the Orthodox Church in America during a session of the Holy Synod on June 16, 2016 at Dormition of the Mother of God Monastery in Rives Junction, MI. It is approved for posting and use by all dioceses, parishes, institutions and monasteries of […]
“Americans for Natural Marriage are Confessors for the Faith”
According to Patriarch Kirill, leader of the Russian Orthodox Church, Christians who stand for the ancient traditions of their faith are becoming “Confessors of the Faith,” in the mold of the mutilated and exiled St. Maximos (+662 AD). Kirill met with famous American Evangelical leader Franklin Graham last week, with whom he shared his admiration for […]
Statement on Same-Sex “Marriage”
by the Russian Orthodox Church Outside of Russia When our Lord and God and Saviour Jesus Christ instructed His Apostles to render unto Caesar the things which are Caesar’s, and unto God the things that are God’s (Matthew 22:21), He foretold of the future what was already true in the days in the Roman Empire: […]
Canada: Same-sex “Marriage” and the Persecution of Christians
Canada legalized same-sex “marriage” in 2005, the fourth country in the world to do so. During the rushed public debate that preceded legalization, the Christian and traditional understanding of marriage as the union of a man and a woman had strong support. Polls showed a deep split among Canadians, and the majority (52 percent) were […]
Russian Orthodox Church Will Never Recognize Same-Sex Marriages
The Russian Orthodox Church will never recognize same-sex marriages, even though it acknowledges freedom of choice in pursuing a certain way of life, even if a sinful one. A statement to this effect was made by Patriarch Kirill of Moscow and All Russia during his meeting on Tuesday with Secretary-General of the Council of Europe […]
What Do Orthodox Bishops Have to Say About “Same-Sex Unions”?
In A Statement on Moral Crisis in Our Nation, all the Orthodox Bishops in the United States made their position very clear: The Orthodox Church cannot and will not bless same-sex unions. Whereas marriage between a man and a woman is a sacred institution ordained by God, homosexual union is not. Like adultery and fornication, homosexual acts are […]
Sacraments Vs. State Marriage Licenses
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 […]
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 […]