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Monday, March 31, 2025

Justinian Code on heresy

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This article is in response to Fr. Ambrose M. an online hieromonk claiming Catholics saints we defended execution for heresy are in Hell.  F...
Saturday, March 29, 2025

Dialogue on James, brother of the Lord

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Protestant : [Meme on the Matthew 13:55-56 (brothers of the Lord)] Catholic : deal with Galatians 1:19 EXPLICITLY naming a brother of the Lo...

Donation of Constantine in post Schism Byzantine and Russian Church

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This article is still a draft with much more to be done including looking for primary sources. Eastern Orthodox are often quick to point out...
Saturday, August 24, 2024

Did the Acts of Chalcedon deny the authority of the Papacy?

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The following is taken from a Russian Orthodox priest named Fr Ambrose M.:  Chalcedon and the Rejection of Rome's Authority. At the com...

Lateran Council AD 649 Eastern delegates on the Papacy

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The following are excerpts taken from Fr Richard Price's translation of the Acts of the Lateran Council of 649 that reflect a high view ...
Wednesday, August 21, 2024

Christ Our Savior Cathedral, Russian Orthodox Church in Moscow

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Some Orthodox traditionalists mock western iconography as simply "art" or "secular art" and deny they are icons. Some mo...
Sunday, August 11, 2024

Tikkun Olam--Sikhun Olam? Funny dialectical result

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Years ago I was given an example of the difference of Hebrew "dialects" ie Sefardic and Ashkenazi Hebrew. In many languages "...
Friday, June 7, 2024

"She is the subject of preaching and worship" Mary worship?

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This meme has been circulating among some Protestant polemicists who go after Catholicism. "Having entered deeply into the history of s...
Tuesday, April 2, 2024

Divine Office, Menaion, Mass on who is damned

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  Divine Office, Menaion, Mass, Catechism on who is damned: The Byzantine version of Divine Office where Arius and Macedonius are declared d...
Saturday, March 30, 2024

Pope Sylvester in Byzantine Menaion

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Sometimes Orthodox apologists claim Rome was largely, if not completely, irrelevant in the first ecumenical council of Nicea (Nicaea). Howev...
Tuesday, February 6, 2024

Tsar Nicholas II family/court and the Occult

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Sources, many primary and secondary claiming "St." Nicholas II, Emperor of Russia dabbled in the occult. The last Emperor of Russi...