Questions and Answers February 2019
Moscow/Constantinople Q: What would you answer to those who claim that the present problems between the Patriarchates of Constantinople and Moscow regarding the Ukraine are simply an ethnic problem? A:...
View ArticleThe Russian Orthodox Church and the Slanders of Western Hypocrisy
The current favourite anti-Russian Orthodox slander of the US-controlled Western media (obviously, this includes the State-run BBC locally) is that the Russian Orthodox Church is the lackey of the...
View ArticleFantasies and Reality: Towards a Local Orthodox Church of Western Europe
Introduction Since at least the 1970s, there has been talk of founding a Local Church in various parts of Western Europe, especially in France under the Fraternite Orthodoxe, but also in Great Britain...
View ArticleOur Orthodox Identity and the Future Configuration of the Russian Orthodox...
Our identity as Orthodox Christians is in our belonging to and confession of the Faith of the One Church of God, founded in Jerusalem by the Descent of the Holy Spirit on the Day of Pentecost in 33 AD....
View ArticleWestern Values: The People’s or the Elite’s?
Yesterday, on 4 July, unreported, or rather censored, by the Western media, Pope Francis met President Putin. They spoke of the vicious persecution of the Church in the Ukraine, Syria and the many...
View ArticleBrexit and the Rue Daru Break-Up: How Politics Strangely Mirrors Church Life
Brexit and the USA For nearly fifty years it was virtually impossible to get a job in the British diplomatic service if you were anti-Common Market (later called the EEC, then the EC and finally the...
View ArticleWhy Join the Russian Orthodox Church?
Introduction Once Western people have spiritual understanding and experience, they can begin to escape from the box of their cultural conditioning and the manipulations imposed on them by their...
View ArticleRue Daru Repents and Returns to the Russian Orthodox Church at Last
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View ArticleHis Holiness Speaks about the Return of Rue Daru
“Reunion must happen forever” 09/16/2019 According to His Holiness Patriarch Kyrill, the reunion of the Archdiocese of the Western European parishes of the Russian Tradition with the Russian Church is...
View ArticleThe Centre Can Hold Because of the Cleansing of the Church
Things fall apart; the centre cannot hold; Mere anarchy is loosed upon the world, The blood-dimmed tide is loosed, and everywhere The ceremony of innocence is drowned; William Yeats, The Second Coming...
View ArticleThe Word of the Patriarch
Patriarch Kyrill, the 18th Sunday after Pentecost, 20 October 2019 The existence of Russia is of a great spiritual and cultural value – not only for you and me, but for all humanity. And we are calling...
View ArticleAn Interview with a Serbian Church Website
The following interview was published last week on www.pouke.org, a Serbian Church website. Being an Englishman and an Orthodox priest at the same time, how do people in your .neighbourhood perceive...
View ArticleWestern Tragedy and Christian Victory
After the collapse of Communism 30 years ago, the Western elite, obsessed by its control-freak fantasy of global supremacy, launched an extraordinarily aggressive campaign against the Non-Western 85%...
View ArticleThe Western Captivity is Ending: The Restoration of Orthodoxy is Gathering...
Introduction: Miracles In 2007 the Church Outside Russia (ROCOR) and the Church inside Russia were miraculously reconciled before me, as I stood confessing ex-Soviet generals and others in the...
View ArticleTowards an African Exarchate?
The news that the Pope of Alexandria has ceded to Greek State pressure (that is, pressure from the notorious US ambassador in Athens, Geoffrey Pyatt) and recognized the Ukrainian schismatics has been...
View ArticleThe Russian Orthodox Émigré Contribution to the Future World Orthodox Church
A few years ago the now Metropolitan Tikhon of Pskov asked us the question: What distinctive contribution can the Russian Orthodox Church Outside Russia (ROCOR) make to the Church inside Russia? Here...
View ArticleQ and A from Correspondence in November 2019
The Orthodox Church Q: Two questions: 1. The Orthodox world has been in crisis since Crete. A schism now separates the Russian Orthodox Church and others from the Greek Churches, which are one by one...
View ArticleMoscow the Third Rome? A View from a Russian Orthodox Priest in the Far Abroad
Introduction: The Soviet Union and Rus Many, especially older, Russians are at times nostalgic for the Soviet Union, or rather, for certain aspects of the Soviet Union (certainly not nostalgic for...
View ArticleМосква третий Рим? Взгляд священника Русской Православной Церкви из дальнего...
Предисловие:Советский Союз и Русь Многие жители России, особенно пожилые, временами испытывают ностальгию по Советскому Союзу или, скорее, по отдельным аспектам советского государства (конечно, не по...
View ArticleOn the DeSovietisation of the Russian Orthodox Church
There was a time when some people called the (Patriarchal) Russian Orthodox Church inside Russia ‘The Soviet Church’. This was of course absurd. Whereas Soviet means atheist, Orthodox means Christian,...
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