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  • Looks like Met. Jonah is serious about correcting past errors

    I don’t know the details of the conflict mentioned in the release below and don’t need to know. What is notable is the apology of a chief hierarch of the Church. Please, don’t post the details of the conflict. They will be deleted. Instead, be encouraged by Metropolitan Jonah’s frank apology. This is good leadership.…

  • The Holodomor: Ukraine’s Famine

    HT: Isa Almisry Another: Watch Harvest of Despair (Soviet Communism engineered Ukraine Famine Genocide 1933) in Educational  |  View More Free Videos Online at Veoh.com Also: Are you listening The New York Times?

  • Greece is in trouble, but so are we

    From Pat Buchanan’s colum “Pitching for America.” We are lurching into crisis. ++++++++++++++++++ Congress this year will spend $1.6 trillion more than it collects in revenue, with the largest outlays in that FY 2010 budget for defense at $719 billion and Social Security at $721 billion. Thus, if the U.S. Government on Oct. 1, 2008,…

  • More to the Ecumenical Patriarch’s recent encyclical than meets the eye

    As I mentioned last week, I recently became a columnist for Catholic Online. They just posted my latest piece. (They are fast. I submitted it just this afternoon.) ++++++++++++++++++++++++++ Last week Orthodox Ecumenical Patriarch Bartholomew released an encyclical castigating what he called Orthodox “fanatics” who object to Orthodox ecumenical involvement. The encyclical was well received…

  • The Byzantine Liturgy as Missionary

    Fr. George Morelli This article is based on the President’s Message column featured in the Society of St. John Chrysostom- Western Region (SSJC-WR) Newsletter: The Light of the East, Spring, 2010. One of the major developments in the modern age is the marginalization and indifference toward Christianity in society.  (Jacobse, 2010; Morelli, 2006, 2008, 2009,…

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