The Holy Kinot (central administrative body of Mount Athos) held an emergency meeting on May 25 described as “exceptional” (because it was attended by priests and representatives of all 20 monasteries of Mount Athos), and wrote an open letter to the Patriarch of Constantinople, Bartholomew I on the eve of the Pan-Orthodox Council. The letter contains a series of critical remarks concerning the provisions of the ecumenical conciliar documents, as well as some of Patriarch Bartholomew's actions.
Fr. Barnabas Powell
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Combating racism by advancing transgendered rights seemed tangential, but this change was coming anyway, so why resist the pretext?
Fr. Stephen Freeman
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For a variety of reasons, I have been spending a fair amount of time with A.I. Solzhenitsyn, the great Russian writer who died in 2008.
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The Russian Orthodox Church of the Moscow Patriarchate has published a draft of the document "Economy in the context of globalization. Orthodox ethical view. " This document demonstrates the key positions of the Russian Church on a number of issues relating to the economy and international relations.