Rating: 8.8|Votes: 13

Russians

An analysis of what it means to be “Russian” today

Vasiliy Shchipkov

The multiplicity of connotations to the word Russians is evidence not of the weakness of Russian identity, but of the diversity of forces that are fighting for the right to interpret it.

Rating: 8.8|Votes: 22

Comments on the Plans to Build a “Church of Three Faiths” in Berlin

Archpriest Alexander Abramov

—In such cases I always ask the following question: who asked them to do it? Where are the thousands or millions of people who are going to worship there? Who are the authors of this initiative?

Rating: 8.8|Votes: 117

How Our World Stopped Being Christian: Anatomy of a Collapse

Jean-Claude Larchet

Whatever the external factors might have been that could have played a role in the collapse of Catholicism (modern attitudes, social pressure, etc.), the internal factors are what appear to be decisive according to the author of this book.

Rating: 9.2|Votes: 46

Address of the Holy Synod of the Ukrainian Orthodox Church to the Faithful on the Possibility of Granting a Tomos of Autocephaly to the Orthodox Church in Ukraine

At its session on May 25 at the Holy Dormition-Kiev Caves Lavra, the Holy Synod of the Ukrainian Orthodox Church adopted an address to the bishops, clergy, monastics, and laity regarding the initiative for “providing a tomos of autocephaly to the Orthodox Church in Ukraine.”

Rating: 8.3|Votes: 16

There is a consensus on the principal points of granting autocephaly

Archpriest Nicholai Balashov

Is there today a commonly accepted procedure for granting church independence – autocephaly and what does canon law say about this mechanism? – a detailed explanation given by the vice-chairman of the Moscow Patriarchate department for external church relations, Archpriest Nikolay Balashov.