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.

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.