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Telling a mother to allow her son to date other boys is immoral. There is no defense for such advice.

Sister Vassar's reply to the mother is against Church teaching and confirms the 14 year old in his sin. Father John Whiteford gave the best response to Sister Vassar's immoral advice: Fr. John Whiteford's News, Comments, & Reflections: Sister Vassa on Homosexuality

Assange keeps claiming there will be more releases, but all he leaked are the DNC emails. I think he is blowing smoke and that is all he has.

Hopefully, Father Jacques is canonized by Pope Francis.

I agree there are problems with the revised Julian calendar. With the revised Julian, the Apostles Fast was all of two days this year.

I think I may know of one of the parishes you are referring to. I'm more familiar with the Greek parishes in Suffolk as I'm from there. When I was first exploring Orthodoxy years ago the priest at one of them told me I wouldn't like his parish since I'm not Greek. The subsequent pastor of...

Hello Buzuxi, I am on Long Island as well. I attend St Gregory of Nyssa Orthodox Church (ACROD) in Seaford.

I'm also not as worked up about this as I was with San Bernardino or 9/11. Of course terrorists need to be eradicated, no matter who they go after, but this particular attack hasn't garnered much emotion inside me. I do pray for the souls of the murdered and their families.

That story always bothered me as well. God would not give that power to Satan for one second, let alone 100 years.

That is the problem with papal supremacy as enshrined by Vatican I. The pope basically has unlimited power. He could abolish all of the Eastern rites with the stroke of a pen and no one would be able to stop him. He could also be a psychopath and commit mass murder, be thrown in jail and the...

I see he has a six volume series on Orthodox theology and was wondering if anyone has read this series. If so, would you recommend it? Thank you.

I didn't convert to Catholicism, but was a cradle Catholic and then joined the Orthodox Church in 2003.

I have mixed opinions about the Crusades in general. However, the Fourth Crusade was an atrocity. It was a war of conquest against a Christian empire and had nothing to do with protecting the Holy Land against Muslim aggression. I know there are apologists who will try to justify even this...

I will be having major surgery on April 21st and will be in the hospital at least 5 days and then be recovering at home for some weeks afterward. Unfortunately, I will unable to attend Divine Services for Holy Week and Pascha. Good thing I have a great priest who will be giving me the...

I have the novel and hope to have the time to read it soon.

Most of the wars in history had nothing to do with religion and many wars were fought between countries that shared the same religion. Think of the Hundred Years War between England and France. They were both Catholic at the time and the war was to to a dynastic struggle, not religion. I would...

American Carpatho-Russian Orthodox Diocese. Here is their website: www.acrod.org

In my experiences with Orthodox jurisdictions, I find ACROD to be the easiest for new people to integrate into.

Glory to God! Many Turks living today most likely have Greek and Armenian descendants.

Do you mean the 17th century Jerusalem Synod? If so, what was problematic about it? Thank you.