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Metropolitan Hilarion of Volokolamsk Congratulates Newly Appointed Archbishop of Canterbury
Below is the letter of congratulations written by Met. Hilarion of Volokolamsk to the Right. Rev. Justimn Welby, the elect Archbishop of Canterbury. The tone is cordial but the warning is inescapable: innovations in the Anglican communion has created a division in fraternal relations between the Anglicans and the Orthodox Church that threatens a permanent…
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100,000 French Protestors Say No to Homosexual Marriage
The re-engineering of French society by the ruling Socialist Party hits a speed bump. Thousands march against same-sex marriage bill Source: France 24 Opponents of a bill that would open up civil marriages and adoption to same-sex couples in France marched in the country’s main cities on Saturday to protest what they call a “major…
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The Orthodox Church – 1923 American Interview with Patriarch Tikhon
Source: Alexander Palace Time Machine From “The Light of Russia” by Donald A. Lowrie (From a rare book published by the YMCA in Prague in 1923. Tikhon was murdered by the Communists soon after the book was published. – Bob Atchison) After the decision to restore the Patriarchate, the most important act of the Sobor…
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Jacques Berlinerblau: Secular America Wins!
I could go through this article point by point and how how a materialist, non-sacramental worldview shapes how a person sees culture and politics. I am not going to do that. Instead, read through the article to understand how a person committed to radical secularism interprets the Obama victory. It’s a revealing and, in its…
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Andrew Klavan: The Long Game
Source: City Journal | Andrew Klavan Three areas the Right should address, financially and intellectually Life is short, said Hippocrates, but art is long. There is a practical corollary to that great truth: elections are won and lost in the politics of the moment, but it’s the culture that makes the nation. In the aftermath…
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