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7 November 2018, 10:27 | Andrew Sorokowski's column |
Archimandrite Robert F. Taft, SJ: critic and defender of the christian east
If Christianity is to survive as a viable lifestyle attractive to modern men and women, it will not be as an obscurantist, anti-intellectual culture of folklore and ritualism, sustained by the rejection of modernity and change…. – Archimandrite Robert F. Taft, SJ
3 November 2018, 13:26 | Open theme |
Ukrainian autocephaly. What next? The role of Patriarch Bartholomew
From what is being reported from Ukraine there seems certain misunderstandings as to what is to be done next.
Religious Studies
25 September 2018, 14:21 | Religious studies |
A Different Approach to the Ecclesiastical Discussion about Ukraine
The first question that arises concerning Ukraine is this: with what right and based on which holy canons, does Russia today claim the ecclesiastical and administrative dependency of the Metropolis of Kyiv?
7 July 2016, 13:11 | Religious studies |
Ukrainain Orthodoxy on the eve of Pan-Orthodox Council. Part III
The history evidences: the Local Churches that were historically associated with earthly empires were uninterested in the canonical establishment of local churches under their jurisdictions, and therefore usually granted autocephaly to churches only under the pressure of historic circumstances. No exception is the Moscow Patriarchate, which has incorporated the Orthodox Church in Ukraine since 1686.
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Possible date for Constantinople's deliberations on the Ukrainian issue is announced
A session of the Episcopate Assembly of the Ecumenical Patriarchate to be held on September 1-3, reports fanarion.blogspot. The reason for the meeting is indicated as “the issues concerning the Mother Church and Orthodoxy will be considered.”
It is not excluded that the “Ukrainian church issue” will be resolved.
First, the Ecumenical Patriarchate does not call itself the “Mother Church” at general Orthodox meetings. Such a definition is used only when it comes to Ukraine or the Kyiv Metropolis.
Secondly, the Tomos is really important in the context of the entire Orthodox world.
It should be noted that in the practice of the Local Orthodox Churches the decisions that are fundamentally important are taken as follows: initially, the Synod convenes (a narrow circle of influential bishops) at which the decision is made -- followed by the Council or assembly of the entire episcopate at which the decision is discussed and approved.
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Злодій завжди кричить: "Тримайте злодія!" Так і малоросійськімосквославні, ідучи на розкол, намагаються переконати всіх, що розкол чинить Константинополь.
- | 14 November 2018, 13:12
Як приємно, що його Всесвятість так розуміє і співчуває бідам і болям нашого народу! Дай, Боже, йому сили і здоров'я довести заплановане до кінця!
- | 14 November 2018, 11:18
С советских времён удивлялся, насколько абсурдно и не вписывается никуда здание музея Ленина. Теперь это Украинский дом. Ничего абсурднее нельзя было придумать! И в этот музей Ленина хотели
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