Rating: 6.7|Votes: 35

Who Governs Whom? The Ecclesiastical Institution or those who Oversee It?

Fr Touma (Bitar) on Racism and Orthodoxy's Byzantium Complex

Archimandrite Touma Bitar

Among these crises, two have restricted the Church's movement, distorted her, created within her an abhorrent duplicity and to a significant degree hindered her from existing within the sphere of living spiritual theology and preaching the Gospel throughout the world. By this I am referring to the crisis of racism and the crisis of Constantinople.

Rating: 9.5|Votes: 34

An examination of the issues brought up by Patriarch Irinej of Serbia in his letter to Ecumenical Patriarch Bartholomew

Anna Stickles

While not addressing the canonical implications of the historical documents surrounding the 1686 submission of Ukraine to Moscow, it emphasizes two much more fundamental and serious issues that he sees as present in this situation.

Rating: 8.5|Votes: 22

Four Tries: Attempts to Achieve Ukrainian Autocephaly in the Last Hundred Years

John M Harwood

We are witnessing the fourth and perhaps last attempt to establish an Autocephalous Church in Ukraine, despite the rejection of this idea by the Orthodox episcopate, the monasteries and their elders, the parish clergy and the great majority of active Orthodox believers in that country.

Rating: 9|Votes: 33

The Decision of the Ecumenical Patriarch is Uncanonical

Metropolitan Amfilohije (Radovich)

This decision is a catastrophe for the Constantinople Patriarchate and for the unity of the Orthodox Church.

Rating: 9.5|Votes: 73

Statement of the Holy Synod of Bishops of the Russian Orthodox Church Outside of Russia

New York: October 18, 2018

The illicit actions of the Church of Constantinople are able to suffer no canonical defence and constitute a grave and dangerous injustice against the traditions of Orthodoxy, as well as a shocking disregard for the spiritual welfare of the sheep of Christ (cf. John 10.3, 11).