Kaleb of Atlanta
Kaleb of Atlanta has offered our readers his views and analysis regarding the famous “Russian World Declaration” published on Public Orthodoxy.
Metropolitan Luke of Zaporozhye and Melitopol
If you don’t know what to do, do what the statutes say, the law. We have our Church canons, we have the statutes.
For the best part of a century, Russia was a soulless, godless place. The communists made quite sure of that. With the Revolution came a grim determination to stamp out religion. How times have changed. In the new Russia, there's been a Christian revival, a kind of resurrection.
Archpriest John Whiteford
The people at Public Orthodoxy have issued a declaration against the Russian Church in which they accuse the Russian Church of heresy -- which they assert is the idea of "Русский мир" or "The Russian World."
Irina Borshch
We are dealing not with historical science in the service of theology, but with political mythology.
Archpriest Vladislav Tsypin
The supreme judicial authority in every autocephalous Church is carried out absolutely independently, with decisions that are final and not subject to any review other than of an Ecumenical Council.
Fr. Lawrence Farley
It is a heretical reduction to coopt Christ, His Mother, and His saints in the service of nationalism or of any earthly ideology.
Archpriest Andrei Tkachev
Those who visited Europe on occasion, or have had the opportunity to compare how the things were in the 1970s or 1980s with Europe of the twenty-first century, can tell you how the Europe they knew has become a different place.
It is unlikely that a solution to the problem of Serbs in Kosovo will be found in the near future, but efforts should be made to prevent it from spreading all over Serbia.
If we are to return to normal life, it should be a better life. Not the one we had before—partying, clubs, restaurants, drinking, having fun, leading a carefree lifestyle. There should be no place for that lifestyle anymore.
Fr. George Calciu
Why is suffering necessary? I lived an experience of suffering which enriched my soul, and I believe that suffering is necessary for me. But it is very difficult to accept this thing.
Archimandrite Nektary (Haji-Petropoulos)
Head of the Russian Orthodox Mission in Mexico on faith, life and the mutual support of the community.
Archpriest Anatoly Frolov
We have a united parish, and hard of hearing people are involved in parish life along with the other faithful.
A sincere appeal to God will save the world from fratricide, and open the way to peaceful solutions to all our present circumstances.
Priest George Maximov
I believe in African priests and I know that they are able to understand Church issues no less than Russians and Greeks.
Metropolitan Isaac of Germany and Central Europe
As a hierarch who lives in a concise Orthodox part of the so-called Orthodox World, that is in Europe, I would like to express my opinion on this crisis which is growing daily and affecting our existence and continuance.
Jesse Dominick
Based on the Antiochian statements, it can be reasonably suggested that Constantinople has lowered its initial expectations for a council of a revived Pentarchy that will bring the hammer down upon the Russian Church.
Maria Merinova
I have never ever met such a large number of different people united by the same idea.
Alena Plavsic
Now the Mission comprises seven parishes and has around 3,000 members. They are all locals, Haitians.
