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Preparation of Holy Chrism Affirms OCA Autocephaly

It was indeed one bishop one vote, but this was before you had patriarchs consecrating 23 new bishops a year …

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- geo michalopulos Leningrad Cowboys? Did you ever see them perform “Sweet Home Alabama” with the Red Army...
- M. Stankovich Holy Cow, Mr. Michalopulos! I swear I received today a compilation entitled: “100 Stairways: A...
- Gail Sheppard The Obama’s are just too young to get it. Michelle looks positively bored. Thank God, I...
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- George Michalopulos I do appreciate your prayers and I will admit to having a Screwdriver while writing last night....
- nit picker Mr. Michalopoulos, They liberalized divorce laws, made abortion legal, made our streets unsafe for kids to...
- CQ George, You now write as a drunk pontificates at the bar. Facts in error. Assertions about reasonable responses to...
- nit picker St. John Climacus probably would have agreed and sent Fr. Thomas Hopko for some time of prayer and...
- George Michalopulos I was going back-and-forth on whether I should print this, because I have tremendous respect for...
- George Michalopulos What you describe is not free-market capitalism but crony capitalism, the capitalism that makes...
- George Michalopulos Mr Novak, nobody here is saying that we shouldn’t keep our eyes on Christ. He is the be-all...
- George Michalopulos I think it was Mark Twain who said “figures don’t lie but liars figure.”...
- Michael Bauman Copybook; Yes, you are correct. It is utiltarian industrialization that is both anti-human and...
- George Michalopulos If anything, Conservatives/Traditionalists always try to put Christ above all things....
- George Michalopulos There’s no way that the reality of Marxism was any different from oligarchy. In fact, it...
- George Michalopulos I never said that Progressives were Marxists or not Marxists. Like Marxists however, they very...
- CQ Progressivism was not really Marxist. It was elitist and believed that the government should be controlled by the...
- CQ One more thing: If a society’s economic order incentivizes and rewards sterility, non-procreative forms of sexual...
- Gods of the Copybook Headings Although I agree with Mr. Bauman’s economic critiques of the clerics that Samn!...
- steve turner Dear Ladder, Both you and Pomazansky are truly unstable. Neither of you have any idea about what...
- Archpriest John Morris I do not think that it is fair to blame Teddy Roosevelt for the First World War. The Americans...
- Michael Bauman And all of these things come from a darkened heart and an evil culture where the Church most...
- Michael Bauman OK, a negative vote but no answer to my questions or attempt the address the content of my post. The...
- CQ Where do the facts that support your statement “When my parents married, the federal tax burden was...
- Michael Bauman John, (sarcasm on) What you clearly don’t understand is that is all due to the world-wide...
- lexcaritas Samn!, I don’t think you understand Fr. Sirrico and the Action Institute at first hand. Neither he...
- Nate Trost By all means, let us speak of the current tax regime. For example, a “working class” household...
- Laura (*I’ve written elsewhere that the Patriarch needs to be reminded that abortions happen in abortuaries, not...
- one Mike: Of course, we place our ultimate reliance upon God, but being a Christian does not absolve us from knowing...
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- Michael Bauman colette, I, too have seen the healing effect of the penance of time away from the cup. It is not a...
- Michael Bauman Just going by what I have been taught by my priest and my bishop. I see no difference in the support...
- CQ Missed this earlier, pardon my delay in responding. I’m sorry that you’ve taken offense at my question...
- colette Yes I know of another priest who has a similar point of view as yours and applied it to the subject of...
- Saunca And you are qualified to deem who is and isn’t allowed to commune, and also demand their repentance,...
- Ladder of Divine Ascent “If what you say is actually true, George, then notwithstanding all I’ve read here in...
- Michael Bauman Those folks should not be teaching in official Church. They should not receive communion until they...
- colette I mis-spoke or rather mis-wrote above, but there was no reply button so where I wrote: “If married same...
- colette I agree with the simple statements of Truth, but also feel in certain instances that action needs to happen...
- M. Stankovich Reverend Fathers, Most assuredly I did not intend to disparage the collected voice and witness of the...
- Fr. Hans Jacobse The “prophetic voice” extends beyond the liturgical ordo. To restrict the...
- Archpriest Alexander F. C. Webster, PhD Surely, Dr. S, you’re not disparaging the specific public moral witness...
- sub-deacon gregory varney I am so sorry to hear that Metropolitan Jonah wants to open a monastery in the OCA. While...
- Michael Bauman Collete says upstream :Michael B and S-Of course I am not saying what the Church teaches is not...
- colette Amen
- colette I am well aware of this-this was used in restating this position in the AAC in which my husband led the team...
- colette If married same -sex couples are receiving regular communion, leading in Church offices, teaching Sunday...
- Ivan Vasiliev Dear Dr. Stankovich, I rejoice in your clarity here! And I am glad that your head injury is better. You...
- Michael Bauman James, even you can see that unless one is grounded and faithful to Holy Tradition it is impossibleto...
- James Yes, Michael, but what about same sex couples “married” in some sort of service presenting...
- Michael Bauman M. Stankovich, I have one minor disagreement. The SCOTUS will not determine public morality–he...
- Plain Dealer Dear George and Cynthia, I wonder if you could clarify why you think that homosexuality is accepted at...
- nit picker CQ, Metropolitan Jonah is not, nor was never deemed “irrelevant”. However, he was not the...
- nit picker CQ, I ask you seriously. How do you have the right to ask me this? Metropolitan Jonah was not the only one...
- M. Stankovich The “prophetic voice” on the contentiousness of same-sex marriage is the living &...
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- how about? How about Father Kostov publically bows down and prostrates himself in front of the victims asking their...
- Saunca Unlike Mark of the DOS, I usually find myself agreeing with Mr. Stankovich’s comments. However, this...
- colette This has to be sarcasm from Mr. Fall. . .
- Children are our future Parents expect a higher standard than looking the other way at potential abuse! As for the...
- Philippa Mark from the DOS said, applying today’s standards to actions or inaction that occurred 30 years ago is not...
- james Fr. Kostoff had many years under the “saintly” leadership of Archbishop Job, remember all men and...
- Michael Bauman M. Stankovich: thank you for the context especially the parish council context. As I said before,...
- George Michalopulos Dr S, thank you for what you just wrote. It’s horrifying that this was (is?) the case, that...
- Mark from the DOS I rarely agree with Dr.Stankovich, but he is correct through and through in this case. Judging the...
- Older But Wiser Yes, it is interesting that we may be overlooking how these developments you mention link themselves...
- ChristineFevronia Excuse me? “The church does not need to engage in all worldly matters”? I’m not...
- Gail Sheppard See Frontline’s “Top Secret America.” Usually this program is so far to the left,...
- M. Stankovich I believe when you say, “Had I been Fr. Kostoff I would have…” you do so with nearly...
- nit picker Mr. Bauman, The emotion of denial is stronger than most realize. It often causes people to turn on even...
- Daniel E Fall Yes, let’s start the witch list immediately. Duh.
- Daniel E Fall good grief, the main point of Haddad was Hatfield’s wish to be in Alaska….I think Bauman...
- Daniel E Fall The church does not need to engage in all worldly matters. A picture of a bishop and his dog or a...
- Daniel E Fall The ecclesiology of the church is largely to blame. Forgetting about the status of Storheim when the...
- Michael Kinsey There is no muderers row lobby, or adulters advocates, or bank robbers union, or friends of wife...
- Philippa Dear George, I understand your point very well having been in a similar situation with regarding to calling...
- Michael Bauman The emotion of denial is stronger than most realize. It often causes people to turn on even righteous...
- Seraphim98 Just to pursue this particular jackrabbit a centimeter or two farther. With respect to Snowden being a...
- DC George, Being a whistleblower is not easy – it takes courage because you may have a target on your back for...
- George Michalopulos Thanks for this perspective. Once, when I was much younger, me and other more senior worker...
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- M. Stankovich We rapidly race toward a full year since the exaggeration and impossibility that is the former...
- Fr. George Washburn Thanks, Michael. I gave your reply the second thumbs up. I have not read the priest’s...
- James Helga, When history and the facts don’t support your position then one has to rewrite history. It is a...
- Helga Michael Stankovich claims, “It was an attempt to address dysfunction in a long-term strategy of retaining...
- Michael Bauman Father, I said that based on what the priest said in his announcement, no one was brought into the...
- Guy Westover ChristineFevronia, I don’t always agree with how His Grace says things, but have discovered that...
- Guy Westover Mark from DOS, I am with you on the issue of restoring the married episcopate. Better to have a married...
- Fr. George Washburn I think Mr. Bauman is perhaps being a little hasty, and even going beyond the scope of his actual...
- Michael Bauman The interesting part to me is that the two bishops presented the parishes and the priest with a fait...
- Lola J. Lee Beno So . . . how did he become a patriarch?
- Lola J. Lee Beno A trial balloon for the eventual administrative merger of the jurisdictions in the United States?
- James The “I take blame for everything” paragraph in +Jonah’s Seattle speech was foisted upon him....
- nit picker Well, they weren’t in the OCA, but they are Orthodox. They were members of the clergy at the time....
- Knows the Score Stankovich spends all the time on the Seattle speech because it is all he has left. He was the...
- nit picker Dr. S, Until you address the email that was leaked by Bp. Tikhon, everything else that you argue is...
- George Michalopulos Dr S, repeat yourself all you want. Those words were indeed spoken by His Beatitude. But what...
- robert PLEAESE! dont blame it on Johnstown. Blame it on the FACT that the OCA has NOT asked for ANY...
- M. Stankovich Mr. Michalopulos, Let me repeat myself:witnessed by hundreds, heard live by perhaps thousands (and...
- nit picker http://news.yahoo.com/russian- tycoon-wants-move-mind-machine -220242522.html Archbishop Lazar Puhalo of...
- Michael Bauman Is it strange? Near as I can tell the two parishes are not far apart, the Antiochian parish has the...
- pere LaChaise This topic deserves its own page. What is going on here that Metr. Philip would cede a church to the...
- M. Stankovich If you are aware of individuals in the Orthodox Church in America in the mid to late 1980′s more...
- James LOL. Michael and Denise the only experts. Too funny. The only experts in the OCA? No other Orthodox doing the...
- nit picker Mr. John Jones, I am not going to get into debates about the history or credibility of Bp. Tikhon...
- ChristineFevronia His Grace, Bishop Tikhon, is beloved by many Orthodox faithful! And you write that he is an...
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- Della House To be sure, their existence within the OCA was an artifact of the Cold War and Syosset did the right...
- Laurence Johnston The problems faced by the OCA did not begin this year with the discussion of The New York Plan (or...
- WearyofWelloing Please remember to keep it to facts or actual quotes of my words, not just that I agreed with deanery...
- Ladder of Divine Ladder “When we tried this about 20 years ago, the wrong people got put on the translation...
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- Robbie Hopper To be sure, their existence within the OCA was an artifact of the Cold War and Syosset did the right...
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- James Christine, I forgive them, for they no not what they do, but as for their salvation I also pray since they...
- Abbouna Michel I think your comment has considerable merit. This, in fact, is my obedience in my current...
- Philippa Heracleides, your response made me chuckle outloud. I guess Priest Hodges now knows what it feels like to be...
- Kentigern Siewers Christ is Risen! Indeed He is Risen! Father, your blessing! Thank you for this forthright note on...
- Father Mark Hodges “Philippa,” Christ is risen! Thank you for your reply. I understand you disagree with...
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- colette This is so outrageous to read-again! Absolutely the OCA bishops need to recant to all of the papers that...
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