Contemporary Issues

Do Unborn Humans Have Human Rights?

23 February 2009

I have been interested in the issue of whether unborn children should have human rights for quite some time. For me personally, this issue was settled before it ever arose: the position of the ...

Religious Life and Economic Crisis

19 February 2009

Orthodoxy and the World

It is a basic spiritual law that if you have one can of beans and you want some more, then give it that one can of beans away. This the Gospel message for 2009 in the midst of layoffs and financial ...

Women and the Priesthood

08 February 2009

Orthodoxy and the World

The fact that women became equal to men in many spheres of human life, including politics, has nothing to do with the church order. In order to introduce female priesthood we need a new Revelation as ...

I Began to Beg Her not to Break Our Lives and Get an Abortion

29 January 2009

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It is very painful to overcome oneself. I turned away from God on that day. I regret it so much now and every day I beg Him to forgive me. If He decides to cast me into hell, my last wish will be to ...

Canon 28 of the 4th Ecumenical Council – Relevant or Irrelevant Today?

24 January 2009

We learn from the Apostles and the Fathers that the church is one church, one and the same church, the body of Christ, found in Antioch, Jerusalem, Alexandria, Constantinople, Greece, Rome, Russia, ...

Embraced by Lucifer

21 January 2009

Archpriest Paul Yerger

It is disturbing to realize how many Christians -- even Orthodox Christians -- are reading the stacks of books about prayer, angels, miracles, and such being sold today which have nothing whatever to ...

Me, You and the Other Guy

04 January 2009

America has the strange phenomenon of increased Church attendance usually accompanying times of prosperity. Many other nations, particularly several I can think of in Europe (modern Ireland stands ...

The Great Idea of God

01 January 2009

Now in this extraordinary discussion over twenty-five centuries there are four main questions that have been raised and debated. The first is, does God exist? The second is, what is God's ...

How We Worship: the Struggle of the American Experience

31 December 2008

We live in the United States of America at the beginning of the 21st century. We are a product of a modern secularized society that prides itself on individual rights. There are many wonderful things ...

Orphans

08 December 2008

The Angel of our Church has departed to pray for us before the Lord in Heavenly monasteries. Words are powerless to express our grief. These 18 years of the Church life will remain with me forever. I ...

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His Holiness Patriarch Kirill Contracted the Coronavirus

4th Plenary Session between ROC and Coptic Church Held

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Patriarch Kirill: The Church Prays for the Fraternal Strife to End as Soon as Possible

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27 September

The Synodal Residence in New York hosts the Council of Bishops of the Russian Orthodox Church Outside of Russia

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26 September

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Epistle of the Council of Bishops of the Russian Orthodox Church Outside of Russia

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