Professor Alexei Osipov
Rating: 9|Votes: 30
The following is a translated transcript of a Spas (Savior) Orthodox TV channel special edition of their program, “Straight to the essence”. In these extremely disturbing times, people want to hear a familiar, trusted voice of experience and sound theology. Professor Osipov is that voice.
George Selinsky
Rating: 8,7|Votes: 34
It is likely what I have to say here will be received by some as “Russian disinformation”, but I will dare to make my opinion known to my fellow Orthodox Greeks and others, in hope it will at least make them think more deeply about the potential consequences of what just happened this January in the Phanar.
Metropolitan Jonah (Paffhausen)
Rating: 9,3|Votes: 101
The actions of the Patriarchate of Constantinople (EP) in its process of granting a Tomos of autocephaly to the schismatic groups in Ukraine have created a canonical crisis.
Fr. John Parker
Rating: 9,8|Votes: 17
The digital age provides a greenhouse for what I would like to call anti-catechism: the subtle and not-so-subtle questioning of, for example, the moral teachings of the Orthodox faith.
Priest George Maximov
Rating: 9,1|Votes: 53
It kind of makes sense now why Constantinople did it and why they wouldn’t listen to any pleas from other Churches not to do it. It was a low-hanging fruit, so “pleasing to the eye” and so easy for picking.
Metropolitan Kallistos (Ware)
Rating: 7,4|Votes: 41
What is the aim of every council? It is, through the exercise of collective discernment, to attain a common mind. Yet this common mind is not simply the sum total of the convictions of the various participants.
Anna Stickles
Rating: 9,3|Votes: 27
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.
Vladimir Burega
Rating: 8,8|Votes: 24
We will try to sort out what in the Ukrainian tomos is typical and what is, so to speak, specific.
Metropolitan Sawa of Warsaw and All Poland
Rating: 9,8|Votes: 37
More and more I think this matter is in God’s hands alone. Otherwise, we’ll never get out of this situation created by satan.
Fr. Silouan (Brown)
Rating: 9,9|Votes: 39
In the Orthodox ascetic tradition, humility is seen as the mother of all virtues. While most of us struggle to even be able to define humility, let alone practice it, His Grace embodied it. As everyone who has ever encountered Bishop Athanasius can attest, His Grace always put others before himself, sometimes even to my chagrin.
Fr. James Rosselli
Rating: 8,8|Votes: 54
Thousands gather expectantly in Kiev’s Independence Square as the rising smoke from burning churches heralds what could be the dawning of a new era. Hearts beat fast and heat rises from the multitude despite the cold. Hundreds of clergy and religious, many of them under house arrest or watching from prisons or hospitals, join the rest of the Orthodox world in anticipation of the answer to the question on everyone’s mind…
His Holiness Patriarch Kirill
Rating: 9,5|Votes: 91
In reply to a letter of His Holiness Patriarch Bartholomew of Constantinople, in which he informed of all his decisions and actions regarding the granting of autocephaly to Ukraine, His Holiness Patriarch Kirill of Moscow and All Russia expressed his deep pain, astonishment and indignation over the anti-canonical actions of the Patriarchate of Constantinople.
Rating: 3,3|Votes: 12
It is hard to assess exactly how significant the moral/sexual component of undermining Orthodoxy in Ukraine is, but there is no denying it is a factor. There is a curious consistency between advocacy for non-traditional, post-Christian sexual morality and support for the schismatic pseudo-Church sponsored by Poroshenko and Patriarch Bartholomew.
Metropolitan Daniil of Vididn
Rating: 9,4|Votes: 38
At the moment, the UOC MP is in the same position as the BOC was then. In our country the schismatics also tried to rob the Church’s identity, to despoil shrines, to usurp property of which they were not entitled. Because we know how they ended, and what their deeds in the faith were.
Sergei Geruk
Rating: 9,7|Votes: 32
Not one politician, not one man can meddle in the life of Christ’s Church, because the Church is His Body, and to encroach upon the Church’s order means encroaching on Christ Himself.
Fr. Stephen Freeman
Rating: 8,9|Votes: 22
I have been slowly reading my way through John Gray’s book, Seven Types of Atheism. It is not an argument with Atheism so much as a study of its underpinnings, strengths and weaknesses.
Taras Melnick
Rating: 8,8|Votes: 47
Only a few days had passed after the council when the information space began shocking everyone with scandalous and absolutely unexpected announcements and publications made by participants of the above event.
Priest Mikhail Ulanov
Rating: 9,7|Votes: 28
This position fully explains the canonical nihilism of Constantinople. Since the canons do not provide opportunities for primacy, they are rejected.
Rating: 9,7|Votes: 34
For our Church, in fact, nothing has changed, inasmuch as the schismatics remain in schism, and the Ukrainian Orthodox Church remains the true Church of Christ in Ukraine.
Fr. Nectarios Trevino
Rating: 7,6|Votes: 37
The present crisis in the news did not begin today. Its roots began in the nineteenth century—if not earlier, continued into the twentieth century, and are maturing in the twenty-first century with a new fervor into an unprecedented form of authority and authenticity—perhaps trusting that God and His people are not looking.
