Rating: 6|Votes: 2

Rebuilding St. Nicholas into an American Pantheon

Fr. Emmanuel Hatzidakis

Rev. John Romas, pastor of St. Nicholas Greek Orthodox Church in Lower Manhattan for 30 years, died of pancreatic cancer on Jan. 24, 2016. Had he not died of cancer, he would have died today of a heart attack, seeing his beloved church eclipsed by the erection of the new St. Nicholas, a glitzy new edifice, bearing no resemblance to his humble church, except for the name.

Rating: 7.3|Votes: 4

Joint Declaration of Pope Francis and Patriarch Kirill of Moscow and All Russia

Christ is the well–spring of joy and hope. Faith in Him transfigures human life, fills it with meaning. This is the conviction borne of the experience of all those to whom Peter refers in his words: “Once you were ‘no people’ but now you are God’s people; you ‘had not received mercy’ but now you have received mercy” (1 Pet 2:10).

Rating: 8|Votes: 8

Metropolitan of Limassol: "What unity are we talking about? Those who departed from the Church are heretics and schismatics"

There are no churches or confessions. Rather, these have cut themselves off from the Church and must be considered heretics and schismatics, notes His Eminence, expressing confusion as to why such an important issue has been ignored.

Rating: 10|Votes: 1

When Abortion Stopped Making Sense

Frederica Mathewes-Green

In time, it’s going to be impossible to deny that abortion is violence against children. Future generations, as they look back, are not necessarily going to go easy on ours. Our bland acceptance of abortion is not going to look like an understandable goof. In fact, the kind of hatred that people now level at Nazis and slave-owners may well fall upon our era.

Rating: 4.7|Votes: 3

Toxic anger won’t help any cause

Fr. Barnabas Powell

Each year, I offer these prayers unreservedly, since they express the ancient faith of the first Christians, who equated abortion with infanticide and rescued babies left exposed to die.