The Election of a Patriarch
With all of the news focused on Conclave in Rome, I have received many questions about how Patriarchs in the Orthodox Church are elected. Like the rest of the ...
Tag: Bishops
Orthodox Assembly of Bishops Remembers the 54 Million Innocent Dead
(AOB) – Forty years ago the Supreme Court of the United States handed down a decision, known as Roe v. Wade, granting a “right” for women of the United States t...
Encyclical of Archbishop Demetrios for Thanksgiving Day 2012
Nov 15, 2012 Protocol Number 161/12 November 22, 2012 Thanksgiving Day Give thanks in all circumstances; for this is the will of God in Christ Jesus for you. (I...
Taking Back Sunday
With a tip of the Skufia to Fr. Greg I post below the text of an address by His Eminence Metropolitan Methodios of Boston given at the recent meeting of the The...
Physician Assisted Suicide And The Orthodox Church
Below is a letter from Metropolitan Methodios concerning physician assisted suicide and the upcoming ballot question no. 2 here in Massachusetts. We thank his ...
Extremist Language is not Christian
Statement of the Holy Eparchial Synod of the Greek Orthodox Archdiocese of America The Holy Eparchial Synod of the Greek Orthodox Archdiocese of America in its ...
Metropolitan Hilarion’s greeting to the Synod of Bishops of the Roman Catholic Church
Your Holiness, Your Eminences and Excellencies: May I address you on behalf of His Holiness Patriarch Kirill of Moscow and All Russia and the Russian Orthodox C...
Assembly of Bishops Letter to the Faithful
(AOB) – To our beloved Orthodox Christian faithful throughout North and Central America: You are the light of the world. (Matt. 5.14) Beloved brothers and...
The problem with political prayer
By Mathew N. Schmalz When New York Cardinal Timothy Dolan accepted a belated invitation to give the blessing at the Democratic National Convention, I wondered w...
Prayer and Politics
As you may know, if you read these pages often, I sometimes comment on politics. I Tweeted last night that I am a Bipartisan criticizer as I am critical of pol...