10/23/2018
Anna Stickles
Rating: 7,3|Votes: 27
There has been a lot of attention lately on the neo-papism of Constantinople, but in the midst of this it behooves us to beware of falling prey to its partner: populism.
Rating: 8,6|Votes: 63
Historically and ecclesiologically no one part of the Church has absolute authority or the final say, only the agreement of the whole.
Rating: 7,5|Votes: 12
For Russia, the situation involves both a dispute over canonical territory and a protest against the claims of Constantinople to be “first among equals” and have universal authority. The first is jurisdictional, the second a matter of the rule of faith.
Rating: 7,7|Votes: 15
First of all it is canonically and historically clear that interruption of Eucharistic communion and ceasing to commemorate a Patriarch, when done rightly is for the protection of the faith.
Rating: 9|Votes: 44
The question I think that needs asked is—is the issue in the present case simply a territorial dispute?
Rating: 10|Votes: 20
Recently, in defense of Constantinople’s actions in Ukraine, some have commented that while repentance is nice as an ideal, “the healing of schisms has rarely involved repentance.” The implication is that repentance is optional, not necessary.
Rating: 9,3|Votes: 29
Political or cultural independence is not bad in itself, but we can tell that something has become an idol in the Christian’s heart when Christian virtue, love, obedience and harmony are sacrificed in order to obtain whatever is desired.
Rating: 9,5|Votes: 19
To return to our main point, the effort at reciprocity is how unity is found in diversity.
Rating: 7,3|Votes: 35
If Constantinople decides to submit to Porshenko’s wishes and establish an Orthodox church on Ukrainian soil against the wishes of the canonical Church, is not the ecclesiological heresy of ethno-phyletism exactly what will appear? This denies the central Eucharistic mission of the Church.
Rating: 8,9|Votes: 47
The main problem is the claim of the Ecumenical Patriarchate that it is a source of order, life, orthodoxy…. whatever, for the rest of the Church. The claim seems to be that the Ecumenical Patriarch is somehow the essence and beginning of the Church in the way Adam is the beginning of the human race or the Father the source of the Trinity.
Rating: 9,5|Votes: 34
While not addressing the canonical implications of the historical documents surrounding the 1686 submission of Ukraine to Moscow, it emphasizes two much more fundamental and serious issues that he sees as present in this situation.
