The Saint Euphrosynos Cafe

GOSPELS AND THE AMERICAN MEDIA In the 1980s, there were some respectful articles about the reliability of the Bible in U.S. News and World Report. But things got much worse in the 1990s and subsequently in the U.S. media, with their coverage of the Jesus Seminar, Robert Funk, John Dominic Crossan, G...

Can anyone tell me why this group went into schism from the GOC-Stephanos? The Thebes Synod (under Metropolitan Chrysostomos Tzanes of Thebes) has its origin in the "schism of the five metroplitans" in 1995 from the main Matthewite synod. The schism was led by Metropolitan Gregory of Mess...

Saint Sophronius I the Sophist, Patriarch of Jerusalem (634–638), is not the most ancient witness to the authorship of the four Gospels, but his words have often been printed in modern Orthodox editions of the Gospels in Greek, Slavonic, and Georgian. Here are some excerpts only. A fuller text can b...

MORE ON THE FOUR CANONICAL GOSPELS AND THE NON-CANONICAL GOSPELS In “marketing” the non-canonical gospels to a general audience, both academics and news media often fail to state clearly several points up front — points that need to be honestly emphasized up front. None of the non-canonical Gospels ...

Concerning "gossip sites": one of the many strange things about Pope Francis is that he INTENTIONALLY gives provocative quotations to journalists who are well-known to engage in gossip and to generally be less-than-reliable, such as the pope's atheist-leftist-journalist friend Eugenio Scal...

The more I read through the late Father Edward Schillebeeckx's first of two books on biblical exegesis (Jesus: An Experiment in Christology, 1974) the more I believe, or better yet, the more I understand where Pope Francis is coming from, both he and his predecessors going back to Pope Saint John X...

True apostolic succession and spiritual validity/efficacy is ended by schism or heresy, with the timetable up to God. But the external form of apostolic succession can be maintained. By oikonomia, the Church can decide not to use the full external form when receiving someone, if the person received ...