Jad Ganem
Rating: 9,1|Votes: 9
Why did the Ecumenical Patriarchate refuse to include the issue of affirming the churches' autocephaly during the "Council of Crete", despite repeated requests made by the Church of Serbia regarding this before and during the council?
Rating: 8,9|Votes: 9
We have provided a full translation of it here because of its far-reaching importance and relevance to today’s grievous situation in Ukraine.
Rating: 7,6|Votes: 38
It is universally recognized as a basic ecclesiological principle that the ordinations of heretics and schismatics, and especially of those who are deposed and excommunicated, as a “Sacrament,” celebrated by all the Churches, are invalid. This basic principle is inextricably bound with the Orthodox teaching on the Holy Spirit and constitutes an unshakeable foundation of the Apostolic succession of Orthodox bishops. It is our conviction that this principle cannot be ignored.
Archpriest John Whiteford, Jesse Dominick
Rating: 9|Votes: 50
Since I became Orthodox, one of the big things I have been concerned with is trying to bring people into the Church. It’s harder to bring people into the Church now because it’s harder to explain what Orthodoxy is.
Anna Stickles
Rating: 7,5|Votes: 11
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: 9,8|Votes: 56
Does anyone wonder what canonical crime these people committed that the Patriarch of Constantinople treated them this way? Maybe they’re guilty of not wanting to become autocephalous and enter into communion with unrepentant schismatics?
Rating: 8,1|Votes: 14
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.
Sergei Geruk, Bishop Victor (Kotsaba) of Baryshev
Rating: 10|Votes: 21
As is well known, today the Orthodox believers of Ukraine have been taken for ransom in the political games of the heads of the state, who have drawn Patriarch Bartholomew of Constantinople into these processes.
Archpriest Sava Mihailidis
Rating: 9|Votes: 29
The Phanar’s well-planned stages of granting “autocephaly” to the OCU reveals a typical Hellenic cunning.
Fr. Lawrence Farley
Rating: 9,3|Votes: 30
Of course everyone goes to heaven when they die. Where else would they go? Belief in a hell has completely fallen out of our culture, probably at more or less the same time as did our sense of sin.
Rating: 9|Votes: 44
The question I think that needs asked is—is the issue in the present case simply a territorial dispute?
Metropolitan Nikiforos of Kykkos
Rating: 9,5|Votes: 61
I can draw only one conclusion. Sadly enough, Ecumenical Patriarch Bartholomew’s granting of autocephalous status to the schismatic community of Philaret and Epiphany not only did not heal the existing schism in Ukraine, but on the contrary, aggravated it.
Archbishop Mark (Arndt)
Rating: 9,8|Votes: 50
It is with a saddened heart that I, as archbishop of the Russian Orthodox Diocese of Berlin and Germany (ROCOR), take this opportunity to clarify our diocese’s position on the current developments among the Orthodox.
Pavel Kuzenkov, Yuri Pushchaev
Rating: 9,2|Votes: 48
When and why did the Patriarchate of Constantinople introduce the new calendar? How is it connected with the current Church conflict in Ukraine? We discussed these subjects with Pavel Kuzenkov, Ph.D in Historical Sciences, teacher of the Sretensky Theological Seminary, and expert in Christian chronological systems.
Demetrios Anagnostou
Rating: 8,8|Votes: 99
An article from the latest issue of the Greek Orthodox gazette “Orthodox Tipos.” The author is a well-known theologian and publicist.
Priest Dimitry Vydumkin
A malicious looking man sitting by the window in the back of the carriages—he looked like a scientist and wore a pair of glasses—suddenly burst out screaming at the tramp, “You, scumbag! You’re panhandling, asking for money! And I don’t have enough money to feed my family.
Metropolitan Luke of Zaporozhye and Melitopol
Rating: 9,6|Votes: 45
The apotheosis of this lawlessness was the formation of the so-called “Orthodox Church of Ukraine” on the basis of structures that had fallen away from the Mother Church, whose autocephaly the Patriarchate of Constantinople single-handedly established by issuing a tomos.
Jesse Dominick
Rating: 8,9|Votes: 33
The Archons are Patriarch Bartholomew’s PR arm and fundraisers and few expected anything new from this meeting—the right of the Ecumenical Patriarchate to intervene in any Church situation anywhere, any time would be asserted again with little real engagement of the serious issues involved in every aspect of the current Church crisis in Ukraine and Constantinople’s role in it.
Rating: 8,2|Votes: 56
A festal Liturgy was celebrated at Moscow’s Christ the Savior Cathedral with his guests— primates and representatives from ten other Local Churches and the autonomous and self-governing bodies of the Moscow Patriarchate and a host of hierarchs from the Russian Orthodox Church.
St. Laurence of Chernigov
Rating: 8,6|Votes: 74
“To break away from the Church is the greatest and unforgiveable sin, for it is the sin against the Holy Spirit.”
