New Book: On the Reception of the Heterodox into the Orthodox Church: The Patristic Consensus and Criteria (+VIDEO)

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New Book: On the Reception of the Heterodox into the Orthodox Church: The Patristic Consensus and Criteria (+VIDEO)

The book is now available from Uncut Mountain Press in hardcover, softcover, and digital formats.

Gender reassignment surgery banned in Russia

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Marriage and Family

Gender reassignment surgery banned in Russia

On Monday, July 24, President Vladimir Putin signed a bill that supplements the law on the fundamentals of protecting the health of citizens with a new article that prohibits medical interventions as well as the use of drugs aimed at changing one’s sex.

Patriarch of Antioch visits Elder Ephraim’s St. Anthony’s Monastery

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Churches and Monasteries

Patriarch of Antioch visits Elder Ephraim’s St. Anthony’s Monastery

The monastery is one of many founded in North America by the great Athonite spiritual father Elder Ephraim of Philotheou and Arizona, whom Pat. John had personally known at Philotheou Monastery on Mt. Athos.

OCA Archbishop Alexander hospitalized over the weekend (Diocese of the South and Bulgarian Diocese)

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OCA Archbishop Alexander hospitalized over the weekend (Diocese of the South and Bulgarian Diocese)

Vladyka Alexander eagerly anticipates returning to his Archpastoral duties once his health allows.

Constantinople’s anti-canonical ecclesiology is cause of Church division today—ROC document

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Constantinople’s anti-canonical ecclesiology is cause of Church division today—ROC document

During the Conference, Metropolitan Hilarion of Budapest and Hungary, Chairman of the Synodal Biblical-Theological Commission, presented the Commission’s report “On the Distortion of the Orthodox Teaching About the Church in the Acts of the Hierarchy of the Patriarchate of Constantinople and the Speeches of its Representatives.”