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Dec 27, 2022

Metropolitan Neophytos: On the Need to Repent for the Sins of the Pandemic

An Interview of Metropolitan Neophytos of Morphou on Cypriot Media (December 14th, 2022). Translated by Father Peter Heers. Download...

Dec 27, 2022

Who is My Brother?

By Hieromonk Alexei (Dixon) “Who are my brothers?” [1] Christ told us from the beginning, “It is not good that man should be alone” [2]....

Dec 19, 2022

A Homily in Preparation for the Celebration of Christmas: According to Saint John Chrysostom

A feast day is about to arrive and it is the most holy, august, and awesome of all feasts; it would be no mistake to call it the chief...

Nov 28, 2022

What is Truth?: A Pastoral Word

By: Fr. Mikhail Baleka Truth. The truth — as both a principle and the very reality of the Person Truth (Our Lord) and His Church — is...

Nov 28, 2022

Shallow Polemics? Really? A Response to Allan Ruhl

By Robert Spencer A Catholic apologist named Allan Ruhl has been waging a one-man campaign against my small book The Church and the Pope,...

Nov 26, 2022

Clarity & The Canonical Release from Metropolitan Seraphim of Piraeus

To Whom it May Concern, A vocal minority of (mostly uninformed) voices is being heard in some corners of the internet concerning my...

Nov 21, 2022

Traditional Orthodoxy vs Social Conservatism

By Subdeacon Nektarios, M.A. In today’s Orthodox Christian landscape, we often find that the majority of the converts in our parishes are...

Nov 21, 2022

Abba Dorotheos: On Building Up & Bringing Together the Virtues of Souls

Introduction by John Coffman Among the Desert Fathers (and others) the instruction to build up virtue in the soul is likened to the...

Nov 17, 2022

A Statement from Archpriest Peter Heers

To Whom It May Concern: Recently I was blessed to visit Nashville, TN and I asked Met. Nicholas of New York for a blessing to serve at...