Around the time of Pascha (a.k.a Orthodox “Easter”) this year, several bishops and ruling metropolitans in the United States announced the lifting of COVID-19 restrictions in full, to take effect immediately if possible, and before September 1, 2021 if circumstances prevented individual parish temples from resuming normal services. Such was the thought of Metropolitan Joseph, the […]
One of the ways both the Roman Catholic and Orthodox Churches acknowledge as “participating in someone else’s sin” is “By silence.” According to this idea, if I know about someone doing something that is sinful and I do not say anything about it to him or to his priest, or if the person is a […]
To the European observer or the American observer, Joe Biden would likely be seen as the answer to the “uncertainty” brought into US – European relations that President Trump brought. That “uncertainty” is really nothing of the kind: President Trump wanted great relations with the allied nations in Western Europe as well as the new NATO […]
A partial, but significant victory took place on Friday, February 5th, as the United States Supreme Court struck down the ban the California state government placed on indoor worship in churches across the state. At issue, of course, was COVID-19 and its potential to affect people, but more the case appears to be the government’s […]
The Union of Orthodox Journalists published a rebuke by one of the Athonite monastics directed at Patriarch Bartholomew I of Constantinople for the anti-Christian activity he has been involved in, especially in recent times. The UOJ (www.spzh.news) is the prime source for news coming out about the grievous situation surrounding the legitimization of two Ukrainian schismatic churches without requiring any particular repentance from the leaders of these groups.
