Metropolitan Hilarion of Volokolamsk: Culture is at risk of becoming anti-culture without the Church
March 10, 2010 by Fr. Johannes Jacobse · 2 Comments
Brilliant! Met. Hilarion’s warning deals with what Nietzsche called the “transvaluation of values” — what his dark prophesy warned would happen in the West because “God is Dead,” by which he meant that Western culture was entering into a period where it functioned within the cultural structures shaped by Christianity but without concrete, existential communion [...]
Russian church leaders defend marriage, speak out on family crisis
February 5, 2010 by Fr. Johannes Jacobse · 2 Comments
Russian Orthodox Church leaders called on Christians on Thursday to be firm in defending traditional marriage and lamented the family crisis in the country.
According to some estimates, over half of the marriages in Russia end in divorce. Women in the 140-million-strong country undergo some 1.5 million abortions annually.
“We, Christians of different denominations, should profess the [...]
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