By Nicholas Karakas I wonder as you pray in church, at home or just anywhere, do you ever become conflicted that our faith has become more crisis oriented in the realm of its social-economic dealings as, too complex and too...
SOURCE: ORTHODOX CHRISTIAN LAITY (OCL.ORG) The Orthodox Christian Laity (OCL) has been advocating for accountability and transparency in Church governance for more than three decades.  The success of OCL’s advocacy can be measured by the increasing use of those terms...
By Nick Stamatakis "Did we not work together, with Fr. Alex Karloutsos, Michael Jaharis and many other dedicated individuals over these past 17 years to fight for St. Nicholas Greek Orthodox Church at the World Trade Center?"  asks Jerry Dimitriou...
By George N. Papathanasopoulos The ecclesiastical issue of Ukraine and on its behalf, the Ecumenical Patriarchate's recognition as an autocephalous Church of this country's schismatics has caused the breakup of Orthodoxy. It is a very serious pastoral, spiritual and ecclesiastical...
Του Γιώργου Ν. Παπαθανασόπουλου Το εκκλησιαστικό ζήτημα της Ουκρανίας και η εκ μέρους του Οικ. Πατριαρχείου αναγνώριση ως αυτοκεφάλου Εκκλησίας των σχισματικών της χώρας αυτής έχει προκαλέσει τη διάσπαση της Ορθοδοξίας. Πρόκειται για σοβαρότατο ποιμαντικό, πνευματικό και εκκλησιαστικό πρόβλημα, που...
PHOTO. A unique photo from a St.Demetrios School graduation showing all four main characters (from the left): Andriotis, Eliades, Fr. Apostolos Koufalakis, (AB Demetrios) and Koularmanis... By Nick Stamatakis Very few people outside the Greek “ghetto” of Astoria, New York, can...
UPDATE SUNDAY 12.00 PM: AUDIO OF MICAHEL PSAROS SPEECH (at the end of this text).. ALSO: AB Elpidophoros owes the faithful a clarification about "open communion for non-Orthodox spouses"... A tremendous uproar has been created about this issue among clergy...
By Nick Stamatakis On Monday, we had noted the courageous stance that Metropolitan Nicholas had showed in deciding to talk openly about past and present corruption in the GOA... But we also reported that efforts were made to force him...
EDITOR'S NOTE: Yesterday we quoted directly from the Leadership 100 website and explained how their own guidelines and criteria were violated...  Please take a look below at "Requests that will not be considered" (under 3) which specifically prohibits “capital...
A last minute effort with the early announcement of a $5 million donation by Leadership 100 to the “Friends of St.Nicholas” will cause more trouble than relief as it violates the Fund's own charter…  If this could be done,...