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The Holy Synod approved Metropolitan Tikhon’s proposal that he and the Chancellor, Archpriest John Jillions, represent the OCA at the inauguration of Pope Francis in Rome on Tuesday, March 19. It was noted that the OCA has been represented by a bishop and priest at the inauguration of each new...

This is a very good post.

Why not, it's not like the regime he founded runs a network of secret prison camps where people are starved and killed.

So was it entirely up to Archbishop Dmitri to allow the priest in question after being defrocked to take on the role of administrator in a parish? What sort of national oversight is there? I would assume many of the people in positions of power when these decisions were made are still in power.

Is that what happened to the former Metropolitan?

If this person was defrocked, it would seem to me that putting this same person in charge of a parish would more or less be letting the Fox guard the hen house. It defies common sense. I looked on the OCA web site and it appears there is no bishop of the South, unless I'm missing something.

How would one categorize the treatment of the Armenians in the early 20th century?

Probably the same number as people who are content as Methodist, Hindu, Eastern Orthodox, insert your faith here ______, etc.

Aftershock by Robert Reich.

Goldman is right, and anyone who values the open sharing of information should be worried about what the government is doing.  That is true on several fronts.

I think many jurisdictions are going to be in scramble mode when looking for candidates given how few (at least as far as I can tell) monastics or unmarried and/or widowed priests there are around as potential candidates.  I think it's unfortunate that one of the main criteria may be whether the...

It's not me in question, but I think it was noted it wasn't the persistent scandals.  My feeling in reading through the posts that I have is its a combination of competing, self-constructed visions of American Orthodoxy and liturgical fetishization.

Except when they don't, hence the reason I think OCA News exists.

I was more thinking of modern era American converts.  ;D

There's a difference between fanning the flames, and dealing with them openly to put them out.  Regardless, one can ignore a fire, but that doesn't mean it isn't there.  It seems part of the issue with the previous crisis may have been the Ostrich approach.  It seems like that may not have...