DOES THE RUSSIAN ORTHODOX CHURCH WANT PEACE?

 Andrew Sorokowski . Religious Information Service of Ukraine

…the Russian Church has long been so closely tied to the state that it is not in the habit of “speaking truth to power.”

IS THE RUSSIAN ORTHODOX CHURCH REALLY PRO-LIFE?

 Sviatohirska Lavra April 21, 2020

PLAGUE AND PIETY

Andrew Sorokowski

…more detailed prescriptions from … bishops, and energetic execution of these directives by both clergy and laity, will help limit the spread of COVID-19 through the Coronavirus. It may also dispel some of the lingering public suspicion about the Church’s alleged indifference to science.

TOO SOON FOR A PATRIARCHATE?

Andrew Sorokowski

…the Kyivan patriarchate envisioned in the 1620s was conceived as a joint Uniate-Orthodox entity, remaining in communion with both Rome and Constantinople. Forces on both sides sank this ambitious dream. Could it be revived today?

WHAT THE OCU AND THE UGCC CAN TEACH EACH OTHER

Andrew Sorokowski

ARCHIMANDRITE ROBERT F. TAFT, SJ: CRITIC AND DEFENDER OF THE CHRISTIAN EAST

Andrew Sorokowski

If Christianity is to survive as a viable lifestyle attractive to modern men and women, it will not be as an obscurantist, anti-intellectual culture of folklore and ritualism, sustained by the rejection of modernity and change…. – Archimandrite Robert F. Taft, SJ

AUTOCEPHALY IN A NUTSHELL

Religious Information Service of Ukraine
Andrew Sorokowski

… the Moscow Patriarchate is busy both in Ukraine and the outside world agitating against such a grant of autocephaly to the UOC-KP and the UAOC, which it regards as schismatic. But its ability to influence world Orthodoxy is limited…