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39th Anniversary of US Supreme Court Ruling on Abortion: “Roe vs Wade”

Defenders of infants’ right to life recognize January 23, 2012 as a reminder of the day when the US judicial system ceased to defend the truly innocent. It was on…

January 24, 2012No CommentRead More

Policy to Unite Christians in Catholicism “A Truly Ecumenical Act” – William Johnstone

With the establishment of a second Ordinariate in America – recently announced as the Ordinariate of the Chair of St Peter – the process of healing the wounds of the…

January 6, 2012No CommentRead More

The United States Anglican Ordinariate and Conversion of Anglicans to Catholicism

The Anglican Ordinariate that was created by the Roman Catholic Church as a means of permitting the conversion of disaffected Anglicans and Episcopalians to the Church of Rome is ethically…

January 3, 20123 CommentsRead More

Why a Plan B? – Archbishop Gennadius on The Morning After Pill

One of the many sentiments reverberating across the American continent following the painful economic collapse and lost feelings of security is the matter of responsibility. Considering the widespread suffering that…

December 14, 20111 CommentRead More

Visual Representations of the Holocaust and Religion

Representations of the Holocaust have been debated for a long time, almost since the end of World War II in 1945. For some representations per se are problematic, because they…

December 6, 2011No CommentRead More

The Myth of Entitlements and Class Warfare

As America struggles to extricate herself from the enormous accumulated debt that bought the country to a financial standstill and the threatening precipice of economic ruin, many of our most…

November 17, 2011No CommentRead More

Ramadan – A Time to Consider the Poor and Needy

The Islamic Council of Victoria (‘ICV’) is the peak body for Muslim organisations in Victoria, Australia. The ICV represents Victoria’s more than 120,000 Muslims; through its 41 member organisations located…

August 2, 2011No CommentRead More

Faith: Is Religion the Real Problem in the Middle East?

Those who enjoy the blame-game prefer it not to be a multiple choice question. A problem has to be all the fault of religion; for example the headline is “religious riots” if…

March 15, 2011No CommentRead More

Supreme Court Ruling Handed Down to Westboro Baptist Church

The Westboro Baptist Church first gained notoriety after it protested outside the funeral of Matthew Shepherd, murdered because he was gay. In recent times the church has picketed at various locations,…

March 2, 2011No CommentRead More

Religion: California Death Row Investment – A Moral Dilemma?

+Catholicos Scholarios-Gennadius III is the OSB Vicar General of America and All-Canada Archbishop New York & East Coast of America Ecumenical Canonical Orthodox Church Metropolitan-Archbishop at the The Holy Orthodox…

February 10, 20115 CommentsRead More