Category: Blog Archive
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ROC Issues Stricter Rules for Celibate Clergy
Source: Interfax 3 February 2011 The MP Archpastoral Council, at its present session in Moscow, found it necessary to limit the practise of ordaining young celibate men to the clerical state. In a special resolution published on Thursday, the bishops resolved, “We regard the practise of ordaining celibate men not in monastic orders, especially those…
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I need some help…
In my spare time (not much really) I help out in the background with other things. Right now I am working on a website for “Orthodox Mission in Pakistan.” You didn’t know there was an Orthodox Church in Pakistan, right? Neither did we until recently. Pakistan has one Orthodox priest recently ordained and under the…
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The Hidden Anti-Semitism of Christopher Hitchens and the New Atheists
Source: OrthodoxyToday.org | George C. Michalopulos Christopher Hitchens, perhaps the most famous of the New Atheists, has spent the better part of the past year engaging in a series of well-publicized debates, inveighing with his typical eloquence against theism in all its forms. Most of his correspondents have been Christians. Men such as Dinesh D’Souza,…
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Fr. Hopko: 10 Essential Conditions for Coming to Know God’s Truth and Finding Life
By Fr. Thomas Hopko 1. The belief that the truth of things can be known, and the desire to know the truth and to do it, wherever it leads, is most essential. Indeed it is everything. When people have this desire and seek truth in order to do it, and are ready to do…
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Egypt: The Realist Scenario
It’s Jimmy Carter all over again. Source: Chronicles of Culture | Srdja Tifkovic The image of the “democratic revolution” in Egypt, as constructed by the mainstream media in North America and Europe over the past two weeks, evokes the collapse of communism in Eastern Europe in 1989. The BBC World Service, NPR and other Western…