The Saint Euphrosynos Cafe

Mr. Kissel, I have refrianed from posting anything and just about reading anything in this site for months now. In fact when I decided I needed to refrain from either viewing or participating in this site's forum it was at the end of some Cyprian-focused threads that you and I had some back and fort...

The Church teaches very clearly that what is important and subject to consideration in the Church is not one's private opinion, but his confession of faith.... That which a bishop secretly believes is of no matter to the Church. When he keeps his heresy to himself... the Church considers him to be ...

Ecumenism needs to be formally condemned in an Ecumenical Council. Indeed it does. But it never will be if things continue going the way they are. Satan has created enough apathy among us Orthodox Christians that we just don't feel the sting of ecumenism. Ecumenism has become the heresy of heresies...

This foolishness has forced the legalists into a mindset wherein various Traditionalist faithful will one day get mailings from another synod telling them that because of an error on the part of one of their heirarchs, they have all been expelled from the church and need to repent Noah! What is wro...

... And he would not because they admit the hertic Bartholomew is a Bishop and has the Grace of God flows from him. I would like to reach some sort of clarity with regard to the actual heretics before we discuss the status of all their promoters. Why does that make a difference? If I were a ROAC bi...

I will post short responses point by point to avoid confusion on all parts. I'm unsure in what way you are using the word "uncanonical"? What makes the groups that you are speaking of here "uncanonical"? I meant this as a sarcastic reference to World Orthodox objections to tradit...

Thank you, indeed this was less ambiguous. I think that what is going on here is a very unfortunate misunderstanding of Metropolitan Cyprian's Ecclesiology has taken place. I would challenge you to show me where he says that it is not God but a council that removes grace. There is no question in Cyp...