The Saint Euphrosynos Cafe

I think they meant the OCA Bishop John and also the author was not against the glorification of Saint Herman, but the way in which the OCA characterized tyhe saint. Thanks for clearing that up. The Bp. John of San Francisco that H.E. Bensusan was referring to was the Metropolia's Bp. John Shahovsko...

reguardless of what there childhood was like,they were called to serve God Indeed, we need to acknowledge the truth of repentance and metanoia. We don't refer to various saints as the Ex-whore saint or the Ex-murderer saint (such as St. Mary of Egypt or St. Moses the Ethiopian), and there is absolu...

Martin wrote:

Which Priest, The Ex-Evangelical Orthodox or the (maybe)Ex- CSB Priest in the OCA?

Martin, why do you ask that?

This paper will be discussed at TOCA's All-American Council which is being held next month in Toronto. The paper makes a recommendation to TOCA to leave the NCC (and the WCC) based on the principle that the NCC is not the most efficacious forum to represent the Orthodox position in. It also states t...

This fact raises an interesting question: why does a book that devotes a considerable percentage of its pages to denouncing the "uncanonical Karlovtsy Synod in Exile" have on its cover an icon painted by a clergyman of that very same "uncanonical Karlovtsy Synod in Exile"? Micha...

Rather than repent and rejoin Metr. Anastassy, they stayed independent for 24 years, until, in secret connivances with Moscow, Schmemann, Meyendorff, +John of SF, and +Ireney, among others, negotiated a deal in which they could sell Moscow the Church of Japan in trade for autocephaly. St. John of S...

There appeared to be several issues of conflict at hand between the newly immigrated Unia and the American Catholic church, e.g. the private ownership of church property, self-administration, and preservation of traditions. St. Alexis Toth led his parish into the Russian diocese and paved the way fo...