Rating: 9.2|Votes: 95

The Dystopian Papacy Of Bartholomew I of Constantinople

Fr. James Rosselli

Such a good, sound plan. It just didn’t work out that way.

Rating: 7.4|Votes: 35

Will the Georgian Orthodox Church Recognize Patriarch Bartholomew’s Primacy in the Orthodox World?

Tamara Lomidze

If we recognize the OCU, we will let Constantinople into the canonical territory of the Georgian Church.

Rating: 8.3|Votes: 11

"Our goal is not to please the secular west, but to serve Holy Orthodoxy"

An Odessa priest of the Ukrainian Orthodox Church talks about a Uniate invasion

Archpriest Andrei Novikov

We are posting a translation of this interview now as one example of the Ukrainian Greek Catholic church’s (Uniate’s) methods currently being implemented in eastern and southern Ukraine.

Rating: 7.4|Votes: 28

Papalism and Populism: Two Sides of the Same Bad Penny

Anna Stickles

There has been a lot of attention lately on the neo-papism of Constantinople, but in the midst of this it behooves us to beware of falling prey to its partner: populism.

Rating: 9.3|Votes: 68

The Two-headed Hydra of the Ukrainian Schism and World Orthodoxy

Metropolitan Hilarion (Alfeyev)

For the past four months not a single Local Orthodox Church has recognized the act committed by Patriarch Bartholomew in flagrant violation of Church canons. A number of Churches officially expressed their disagreement with this act, as well as their non-recognition of the legalization of the schismatics, and expressed their support for the canonical Ukrainian Orthodox Church led by Metropolitan Onuphry. Other Churches took time to examine the situation. None of them has supported the lawlessness. Why?