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With the Vatican among the dwindling number of states that recognize Taiwan, President Ma Ying-jeou’s attendance at Pope Francis’s inaugural Mass is significant.| IHT Rendezvous
Is Patriarch Bartholomew an Orthodox hierarch, or a Globalist asset? Compare his record of chasing money and political influence with that of Patriarch Daniel of Romania. The post Two Very Different Patriarchs – Constantinople vs Romania appeared first on Orthodox Reflections.| Orthodox Reflections
With the Vatican among the dwindling number of states that recognize Taiwan, President Ma Ying-jeou’s attendance at Pope Francis’s inaugural Mass is significant.| IHT Rendezvous
What is the true nature of Orthodox Christianity, and is the faith compatible with Oriental practices such as Zen Buddhism?| Orthodox Reflections
Many traditionalists tout a return to Roman Catholicism to renew a declining Western world. Returning to a non-Apostolic faith will not help.| Orthodox Reflections
NOTE: I have continually updated this article as I have received more information or had new thoughts occur to me. For Orthodox Christians, what do California, Illinois, Indiana, Iowa, Kentucky, Louisiana, New York, Ohio, Pennsylvania, and Washington DC have in common? They all have major relics of Orthodox saints that American Orthodox Christians largely don’t […]| Orthodox History
Orthodox Christian military regularly attend Roman Catholic mass. No Orthodox chaplains, and no local parish either. We must do better.| Orthodox Reflections
The pontificate of Leo XIII (1878-1903) was marked by a flurry of encyclicals addressing the Christian East, which naturally received a great variety of Orthodox responses. Here on Orthodox History we have already published a response to Urbanitatis Veteris published by the official journal of the Russian Orthodox in America in 1901, and a response […] The post New Translation: St Raphael Against the Papacy appeared first on Orthodox History.| Orthodox History
The new Pope of Rome, Leo XIV, has made it clear that he chose his name in honor of his predecessor Leo XIII. This is especially interesting to me as an Orthodox historian, since Leo XIII took a particular interest in Orthodoxy, and at the turn of the last century, Orthodox leaders and scholars (including […] The post Pope Leo XIII’s Encyclical to Greece, and an Orthodox Response appeared first on Orthodox History.| Orthodox History
In 1894, Pope Leo XIII issued a papal encyclical on the “Eastern Rites” — that is, the Uniates, those groups who use traditional Orthodox liturgical rites but submit themselves to the Pope of Rome. In 1898, St Raphael Hawaweeny, then an archimandrite in New York, published a response to the papal encyclical in a periodical […]| Orthodox History
SEEK 47 – Being Catholic Question: Why my family is Catholic, and I am a Christian? Bible Reading: Hebrews 10:1-18 Text: “For by one sacrifice he has made perfect for ever those who are being m…| TheWeeFlea.com
