In yesterday’s post, I pointed out that there are some very negative things that are said about the future Church in some parts of the New Testament. There are also some very positive things said about the Church. In fact, we tend to concentrate so much on the positive things that we forget or minimize […]
Sin in the Church should not be a surprise to anyone
Yesterday I had a couple of people over to my house, along with two grandchildren. We were setting up a Christmas tree, having some hot chocolate, and generally having some Advent fun. Well, some questions started coming my way. One of them was whether the Orthodox Church had ever engaged in sin as serious as […]
FBI Hate Crime statistics for 2009
Listed below are the Hate Crime statistics for 2009 collected by the Federal Bureau of Investigation under the Uniform Crime Reporting Program. Let me mention that this is the program through which statistics are collected from police forces from all over the country. It is from these reports that we get our national crime statistics […]
Healthcare law survives its second legal challenge
On December 01, a Federal judge in Virginia ruled that the healthcare law supported by President Obama and passed by Congress is legal as it stands. Let me quote from Bloomberg Businessweek, but I urge you to go read the entire article: Nov. 30 (Bloomberg) — The Obama administration’s health- care overhaul survived a federal […]
Mixed feelings about Wikileaks
By now, the subject of Wikileaks has become a phenomenon discussed in many of the world capitals, and certainly a subject of the current news cycle. Julian Assange, the founder of Wikileaks, is being sought both under Intepol and American warrants. What is his crime? Well, it depends to whom you talk? Of course, Sweden […]
Rosa Parks 2010
Today is the 55th anniversary of the arrest of Rosa Parks on 01 December 1955 for refusing to give up her seat in the front of a Montgomery, AL bus and move to the rear. Here is part of the story as told today by the Montgomery Advertiser: When Rosa Parks refused on the afternoon of […]
On the necessity for swift and decisive pastoral discipline of priests
Sadly, the following story was recently posted on the online version of the American Bar Association Journal (ABA Journal): A Catholic priest already facing criminal sexual-assault charges in a Texas has been re-arrested and jailed in lieu of $700,000 bail in Dallas County after allegedly seeking a contract hit on the claimed victim, who is […]
On doctrinal canons and disciplinary canons
There is a division found in the Orthodox Church that is also found in the Roman Catholic Church and also the Anglican Church. It is a division that is so old, that is predates the division between East and West. That is the division between what are called doctrinal canons and disciplinary canons. This has […]
Orthodoxy and Alcoholics Anonymous
The same nun about whom I wrote yesterday commented to me that many priests do not know how to deal with people with addictions. In particular, she commented to me about dealing with alcoholism. She mentioned, in particular, the group Alcoholics Anonymous as being a very helpful group. Alcoholics Anonymous has always had trouble with […]
Anorexia and Orthodox fasting rules
Recently I received an e-mail from an Orthodox nun which said in part: I have also discovered, through speaking with people with eating disorders, that priests tend to know very little in that area as well. It is difficult for someone with a tendency to anorexia to fast in a moderate way. In yesterday’s post, […]
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