• OCL Letters to Archbishop Elpidophoros Regarding the GOA’s Process of Creating a New Charter [UPDATED]
    Friday, April 9, 2021 from OCL
    Source: Orthodox Christian Laity UPDATE: The letters are bearing fruit! See Communiqué of the Holy Eparchial Synod of the GOA (Important Charter News!) and Charter@goarch.org: Independence for the Church of America! Letter of March 8,...
  • Communiqué of the Holy Eparchial Synod of the GOA (Important Charter News!)
    Friday, April 9, 2021 from OCL
    Source: Greek Orthodox Archdiocese of America Today, April 5, 2021 His Eminence Archbishop Elpidophoros of America convened the Holy Eparchial Synod via video conference for a regularly scheduled meeting. During this gathering, the Holy...
  • Why is Pascha So Late This Year?!: SOME COMMON MISPERCEPTIONS ABOUT THE DATE OF PASCHA/EASTER
    Friday, April 9, 2021 from OCL
    Source: Public Orthodoxy by John Fotopoulos This essay was originally published in 2017. It has been updated for 2021. [Common Misperceptions] A common misperception among Orthodox Christians is that Orthodox Easter (i.e. Pascha) often...
  • Charter@goarch.org: Independence for the Church of America!
    Tuesday, April 6, 2021 from OCL
    Source: Helleniscope By Nick Stamatakis Remarkable news came out of yesterday’s Eparchial Synod regarding the procedure to form a new charter for GOA.  According to the official announcement, “…the process envisions the establishment of...
  • Readers’ Questions/Comments About the Charter Crisis in the GOA
    Wednesday, March 31, 2021 from OCL
    Did you know that the GOA was established as an autocephalous church in the USA in 1921? (See seal to the left) Did you know that pressure was applied from abroad in the late 1920s to rescind the autocephaly? See Dr. Paul Manolis’s...
  • In Memory: John Junior Regule
    Monday, March 29, 2021 from OCL
    Source: Dignity Memorial John J. Regule, 92, of The Villages, FL and formerly of Sharon, PA, fell asleep in the Lord on the morning of Wednesday, March 24, 2021. Born in 1928 in Sharon, PA, John was the son of immigrant parents from...
  • Fr. Alex Karloutsos to Retire From Archdiocese; Remain Active in Select Projects
    Friday, March 26, 2021 from OCL
    Source: Pappas Post written by Gregory Pappas Long considered one of the most influential clergymen in the history of the Greek Orthodox Church in America, Rev. Alexander Karloutsos– known to Presidents and faithful simply as “Fr. Alex”–...
  • St. Nicholai: The Last Years – A Video Presentation by Bishop Irinej (Dobrijevic)
    Friday, March 26, 2021 from OCL
    Source: St. Tikhon’s Seminary St. Tikhon’s Seminary – St. Nicholai Velimirovic Lecture (March 23, 2021) “St. Nicholai: The Last Years” – A presentation by His Grace Bishop Irinej (Dobrijevic) of the...
  • US Religion Census 2020: Dramatic Changes in American Orthodox Churches
    Friday, March 26, 2021 from OCL
    Source: Orthodox Reality The report, “US Religion Census 2020: Dramatic Changes in American Orthodox Churches,” is now available. The report presents detailed information on parishes, membership, and rates of worship attendance for...
  • Document on the COVID Vaccines by the Orthodox Theological Society in America
    Wednesday, March 24, 2021 from OCL
    Source: Orthodox Theological Society of America The Orthodox Theological Society of America has produced a document on the Covid vaccines (in a FAQ style) to answer some basic questions about the vaccines with a short discussion of some...
  • A BLESSEDLY UNPREDICTABLE COUNCIL
    Monday, March 22, 2021 from OCL
    Source: First Things by Cyril Hovorun Originally published on July 7, 2016 I had begun writing about the results of the Pan-Orthodox Council, which recently finished its work in Crete, before it was actually convened. The working title I...
  • 40 Years Since the Repose of the First OCA Primate
    Thursday, March 18, 2021 from OCL
    Source: Orthodox Church in America March 18, 2021 marks the 40th anniversary of the repose in 1981 of His Beatitude Metropolitan Ireney (Bekish), the first Primate of the Autocephalous Orthodox Church in America (OCA).  When Metropolitan...
  • A supercomputer's Covid-19 analysis yields a new way to understand the virus
    Wednesday, September 2, 2020 from OrthodoxChristianity.net
    Putting this here because public health issues are part of family care. https://elemental.medium.com/a-supercomputer-analyzed-covid-19-and-an-interesting-new-theory-has-emerged-31cb8eba9d63
  • Re: Random Postings
    Wednesday, September 2, 2020 from OrthodoxChristianity.net
    Happy birthday to theistgal and iconodule
  • Re: Martial Arts and Orthodoxy
    Wednesday, September 2, 2020 from OrthodoxChristianity.net
    Quote from: Jude1:3 on Yesterday at 09:51:35 PM I try to just ignore the spiritual side of martial arts and just focus on the physical self defense aspects. I like grappling and instructional videos. I made it to 2 stripe ...
  • Re: Martial Arts and Orthodoxy
    Wednesday, September 2, 2020 from OrthodoxChristianity.net
  • Re: What does everyone look like?
    Wednesday, September 2, 2020 from OrthodoxChristianity.net
    Quote from: RaphaCam on Yesterday at 07:02:51 PM Cool skull shape. I take after my Dad:
  • Judaism and Russian Orthodoxy: A Russian cleric’s turn of phrase evokes some dark memories
    Sunday, December 3, 2017 from Eastern Orthodox Church
    Main image:  THIS has been a roller-coaster week in relations between Judaism and Russian Orthodoxy. It started when one of the country’s best-known clerics, a man regarded as personally close...
  • Monarchy and the Russian diaspora: Arcane arguments about Russia’s sovereigns could go mainstream
    Monday, October 30, 2017 from Eastern Orthodox Church
    Main image:  AS A colleague writes in this week’s print edition, Vladimir Putin is in certain ways more comparable to an absolute monarch than to a constitutionally elected political leader, who might be hemmed by checks and...
  • Religious diplomacy: The Vatican’s secretary of state visits Moscow for the first time in 19 years
    Friday, August 25, 2017 from Eastern Orthodox Church
    Main image:  CARDINAL Pietro Parolin, the Vatican’s secretary of state, has just made a four-day trip to Russia. It was the first time in 19 years that a holder of that powerful office, sometimes described as “prime minister” of...
  • Christianity and the bomb: How Christianity has dealt with nuclear weapons
    Sunday, August 20, 2017 from Eastern Orthodox Church
    WHERE have Christians stood in the debate about nuclear weapons? How have practitioners of the world’s most popular religion answered the moral dilemmas posed by devices that could bring all human life to a horrific end? Given that the...
  • Praying together, staying together: The axis between Russian Orthodox and American evangelicals is intact
    Friday, July 14, 2017 from Eastern Orthodox Church
    While some people fear that relations between Donald Trump, Vladimir Putin and their respective entourages have been too warm and cosy, others feel that those relations ought to be even closer.Advocates of closer ties include American...
  • Religion after communism: Eastern Europe’s patriotic faith
    Sunday, May 14, 2017 from Eastern Orthodox Church
    Main image:  Especially observed from afar, Europe is often viewed as a continent where traditional forms of Christianity are dwindling fast, and the only kinds of faith which flourish are those brought by recent arrivals,...
  • Badgering the Witnesses: Russia bans the Jehovah’s Witnesses, just as the Soviet Union did
    Thursday, April 27, 2017 from Eastern Orthodox Church
    Print section Print Rubric:  A pacifist sect banned by the Soviets is banned again Print Headline:  Badgering the Witnesses Print Fly Title:  Religious repression in Russia UK Only Article:  standard...
  • A Slavic scholar: Francysk Skaryna, the Martin Luther of Belarus
    Tuesday, January 31, 2017 from Eastern Orthodox Church
    Main image:  THIS year, the 500th anniversary of his “95 Theses on the Power and Efficacy of Indulgences”, Martin Luther’s legacy is being re-examined. A cacophony of events, ranging from exhibitions to church services, will...
  • Ecclesiastical diplomacy: A new Orthodox church next to the Eiffel Tower boosts Russian soft power
    Monday, December 5, 2016 from Eastern Orthodox Church
    Main image:  THE skyline of Paris has just acquired yet another arresting feature. Only a stone’s throw from the Eiffel Tower, a spanking new Russian Orthodox cathedral, complete with five onion domes and a cultural centre, was...
  • Common cause no more: Conservative American Christians cancel a conference in Moscow
    Tuesday, August 9, 2016 from Eastern Orthodox Church
    RELATIONS between American evangelicals and the powers that be in Russia, whether worldly or spiritual, have had their ups and downs over the years. It was at a conference of the National Association of Evangelicals in...
  • The Economist explains: Why Orthodox patriarchs are meeting after centuries
    Wednesday, June 22, 2016 from Eastern Orthodox Church
    THERE are some religious statements about the world which made history and affected the way people millions of people thought. One was in Pacem in Terris, a denunciation of war issued in 1963 by a dying Pope John XXIII; an earlier...
  • Orthodoxy and Ukraine: As Orthodox leaders gather in Crete, Ukraine calls for an independent church
    Thursday, June 16, 2016 from Eastern Orthodox Church
    ONLY a few hours ago, Orthodox Christian bishops from many countries were preparing smoothly enough for an historic gathering in Crete which although diminished by some last-minute withdrawals will still be a huge landmark in the history...
  • Orthodox Christian summit: The autumn of the patriarchs
    Thursday, June 16, 2016 from Eastern Orthodox Church
    Print section UK Only Article:  standard article Issue:  Divided we fall Fly Title:  Orthodox Christian summit Main image:  20160618_EUD001_0.jpg IN THE early centuries of eastern Christian history,...
  • Paschal: An ancient Orthodox Easter rite engenders new and old passions
    Sunday, May 1, 2016 from Eastern Orthodox Church
    FROM the Holy Sepulchre in Jerusalem to the Russian Arctic, millions of Orthodox Christians have been celebrating Easter this weekend, in a passionate cycle of lamentation, anticipation and candle-lit jubilation. And...
  • Islam, interment and Greece: Burying drowned migrants is part of a broader Greek problem
    Wednesday, April 20, 2016 from Eastern Orthodox Church
    THE newly established graveyard, a short drive west of Mytilene port, is a desperately sad place. In the middle of an olive grove, there are dozens of mounds of crumbly earth, some created...
  • Orthodox Christianity: Eastern Christian leaders face ultra-conservative grumbles as they prepare for a summit
    Sunday, March 6, 2016 from Eastern Orthodox Church
    AS ORTHODOX Christian leaders prepare for what has been billed as their most important gathering for centuries, they have many problems to wrestle with. One, as widely reported already, is the chronically uneasy relationship between the...
  • Russia and the pope: Did the pope just kiss Putin’s ring?
    Monday, February 15, 2016 from Eastern Orthodox Church
    Print section UK Only Article:  standard article Fly Title:  Russia and the pope Main image:  20160220_eup501.jpg TO HIS millions of admirers, Pope Francis seems possessed of an almost angelic spirituality. But...
  • Catholicism and Russian Orthodoxy: From the New World, a pope and a patriarch address old-world fights
    Saturday, February 13, 2016 from Eastern Orthodox Church
    GEOPOLITICS and spirituality have always intersected at strange angles. Millions of ordinary Christian believers, most of whom feel bewildered by ecclesiastical high politics, will take heart from the simple fact that two globally...
  • The Economist explains: The differences between the Catholic and Orthodox churches
    Friday, February 12, 2016 from Eastern Orthodox Church
    TO A non-Christian, or even to a Christian who prefers to keep doctrine and worship as simple as possible, the Catholic and Orthodox churches can look pretty similar. Both use elaborate ceremonies of ancient origin and...
  • Popes and patriarchs: A Catholic-Orthodox meeting is spectacular but not unprecedented
    Sunday, February 7, 2016 from Eastern Orthodox Church
    THE announcement of a meeting between Pope Francis and Patriarch Kirill of Moscow, due to take place in Cuba on February 12th, is certainly a spectacular moment in inter-church diplomacy. But contrary to many reports that have appeared...
  • Russian Orthodoxy and journalism: A maverick voice in Russia’s national church loses his job
    Wednesday, December 23, 2015 from Eastern Orthodox Church
    CONTRARY to some impressions, Russian Orthodoxy is not, or not yet, a political monolith. Nor is it an army marching in perfect obedience to President Vladimir Putin. In some ways, its ranks include more openly expressed diversity than...
  • Kosovo and UNESCO: A setback for Kosovo amid bitter rows over its ancient churches
    Wednesday, November 11, 2015 from Eastern Orthodox Church
    THERE is something supremely changeless about the daily rites of an Orthodox Christian monastery, such as the 700-year-old community of Visoki Decani on the western fringe of Kosovo, which occupies one of the most aesthetically graceful,...
  • Russia, Syria and holy war: Some Middle Eastern Christians are speaking up against “holy war” in Syria
    Wednesday, October 21, 2015 from Eastern Orthodox Church
    AT THE beginning of this month, when Russian jet fighters went into action in Syria, it was widely reported that Russia and its national church had proclaimed a "holy war" against Islamic State. In the Western world, some...
  • Religious education in Greece: Greece's ruling leftists soften their secularism
    Sunday, October 11, 2015 from Eastern Orthodox Church
    ALL over Greece, from the Ionian islands to the border villages of Thrace, youngsters aged between five and 17 are settling down to a year of schooling whose content is carefully mandated by the ministry of education. And for the great...
  • A New Public Protest on the Demolition of the Church of St. Athanasius in Dhermi – Albania
    Saturday, September 12, 2015 from News | Orthodoxy Cognate PAGE
    The Albanian Orthodox Church – September 2015 Official government institutions across the country have declared that the Orthodox Autocephalous Church of Albania did not complain about the events concerning the demolition of the...
  • Meditation on Peace by Patriarch Ignatius Aphrem II
    Saturday, September 12, 2015 from News | Orthodoxy Cognate PAGE
    September 2015 – FB Page of Patriarch Ignatius Aphrem II Tirana/Albania: His Holiness Patriarch Moran Mor Ignatius Aphrem II gave a meditation on peace “I have overcome the world”, at the closing session of the...
  • O you Apostles from afar…
    Saturday, September 12, 2015 from News | Orthodoxy Cognate PAGE
    BR1 Orthodox Mission Fraternity – September 2015 It sounds like a gentle touch that brings back childhood memories, somewhere in our home country, in the small picturesque church or the beauteous parish church, but always within the...
  • Great blessings for the Sumatra Mission
    Saturday, September 12, 2015 from News | Orthodoxy Cognate PAGE
    Indonesia3 Orthodox Mission Fraternity – September 2015 Dear Friends of the Mission, With God’s help we do well. I would like to write about some of our news here in Indonesia. In the first half of July we were visited by our venerable...
  • Missionary tour in West Africa
    Saturday, September 12, 2015 from News | Orthodoxy Cognate PAGE
    Infant cleaning by the Prevention Service against Ebola CC-BY United Nations Photo Orthodox Mission Fraternity – September 2015 Since the day the worst outbreak of Ebola struck West Africa, the few airlines that flew there have greatly limited the number of their flights. Others felt it right to suspend air...
  • Patriarchal blessing at the closing of the European Orthodox Youth Meeting
    Saturday, September 12, 2015 from News | Orthodoxy Cognate PAGE
    September 2015 Also Read – European Youth Procession in Cluj-Napoca In the presence of His Beatitude Daniel, Patriarch of Romania, and of the other hierarchs from home and abroad, the closing festivity of the European Orthodox...
  • The Patriarch of Romania celebrated the Divine Liturgy in Cluj-Napoca
    Saturday, September 12, 2015 from News | Orthodoxy Cognate PAGE
    His Beatitude Daniel, Patriarch of the Romanian Orthodox Church, officiated at Divine Liturgy on 06 September 2015, on the 14th Sunday after Pentecost, on the scene placed next to the Metropolitan Cathedral in Cluj-Napoca, during the...
  • SVOTS Chancellor’s Keynote Address at SYNDESMOS Youth Conference
    Friday, September 11, 2015 from News | Orthodoxy Cognate PAGE
    September 2015 View the photo gallery on Oca.org Seminary Chancellor/CEO the Very Reverend Dr. Chad Hatfield recently delivered the keynote address at the international Orthodox youth festival  titled “Attaining...
  • Orthodox Education Day: “East Meets East”
    Friday, September 11, 2015 from News | Orthodoxy Cognate PAGE
    September 2015 “East Meets East” is the theme for St. Vladimir’s Orthodox Theological Seminary’s annual Orthodox Education Day on October 3, 2015. The seminary’s yearly open house and fall festival will celebrate the relationship between...
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