Questions and Answers (March 2019) From Recent Correspondence
The Parish Church Q: Where is the Colchester church financed from? A: St John of Shanghai Church in Colchester was bought and equipped in 2008 with money donated for 95% by English Orthodox. The rest...
View ArticleThe Centre Can Hold Because of the Cleansing of the Church
Things fall apart; the centre cannot hold; Mere anarchy is loosed upon the world, The blood-dimmed tide is loosed, and everywhere The ceremony of innocence is drowned; William Yeats, The Second Coming...
View ArticleDivisions of the Russian Orthodox Church
Introduction: Divisions Outside the Church The Western world began its separate and exclusivist existence when the Roman Papacy destroyed the Local Church entrusted to its care by enforcing a radical...
View ArticleHeresies, Schisms, Divisions and the Consequences of the Ukrainian Tragedy
The misfortune that has befallen Russia is the direct result of grievous sins and her rebirth is only possible through cleansing from them. However, so far there has been no real repentance. Bishop...
View ArticleThe History of the Schism of the New ROCOR from the Church
Introduction The schism of the new ROCOR from the Orthodox Church has its origin in the mentality of certain US ROCOR converts, of woman-hating ‘incels’ and ‘orthobros’. This mentality first raised its...
View ArticleUnlocking the Crisis in the Orthodox World
The 200 million-strong Orthodox Church is in an unheard-of state of schism between the clerical leaders of 14 million Greek Orthodox and the clerical leaders of 140 million Russian Orthodox. This...
View ArticleThe End of a World
Politics Catastrophic predictions and apocalyptic undertones are here. Even the name of a place in the Holy Land, Armageddon, is on some people’s lips. The US elite is threatening to invade Chinese...
View ArticleAmerica, the Ukraine, Russia, the Church: Temptation, Tragedy, Challenge and...
Foreword The world is now becoming a post-globalist world. The Globalists (Americans) have been defeated by the Sovereignists. Despite the attempts by the US elite, the power behind the throne, to keep...
View ArticleWhat Went Wrong With ROCOR?
In 1974 I asked the then Fr Kallistos (Ware) what the situation in ROCOR was. He told me that he had met the future St John of Shanghai (+ 1966) in the 1950s and had seriously thought about...
View ArticleFive Years of Schisms: The Church Torn by Needless Divisions
2024 opens in sadness for all the Local Orthodox Churches. In 2021 well over half the Russian Orthodox Church Outside Russia (ROCOR) Diocese in England left that New York-based branch of the Moscow...
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