Introduction: His Eminence Hierotheos Vlachos, Metropolitan of Nafpaktos and Agios Vlassios in Greece, is regarded as one of the foremost authorities on the Orthodox spiritual life and Patristic theology. He has taught theology in the Theological School of Balamant, of the Church of Antioch, in the Holy Cross College in Boston, and in the Tacoma Pacific Lutheran University. A prolific writer, he has...

In our day and age, in which spiritual delusion, heresy, occultism, New Age spirituality, black magic, and so many other spiritual diseases are circulating, is it possible for the Orthodox Church to follow the second Vatican Council and other heterodox Christians in basically ignoring the presence of heresy?

There is the idea within ecumenical circles that we can no longer speak of heresy, that...

The idea of full and partial communion, so central to the new ecclesiology, is inconsistent with this understanding of the organic un ity of the Church. Once again, in this regard as well, Vatican II was not a return to the patristic vision of the Church, but rather a further step away from it. As Metropolitan Kallistos Ware has written:...

(This is something of an update to (and confirmation of) what I said in my recent lecture, "From the Second Vatican Council to the Pan Orthodox Council".)

The hierarchy of the Church of Greece has met and has unanimously decided to except nearly every correction proposed by the hierarchs and to send those corrections to the Great and Holy Council for a thorough revision of the pre-synodical...

Metropolitan Paul of Siatista says that anyone who has only been legally married at the county office but not married in the church cannot commune of the holy mysteries and cannot become a sponsor in baptisms or marriage. Of course, the metropolitan is only repeating the standard position of the church, but it bears repeating for few are employing it and many are neglecting it.

He says,...

Recunoașterea botezului eterodocșilor ca bază pentru o nouă eclesiologie (în consonanță cu Conciliul Vatican II) <

de Protopopul Peter Heers, Rector al Biserici Sfântului Proroc Ilie, Petrokerasa, Grecia

Prin presiunea acceptării la nivel panortodox a textului pre-sinodal, "Relațiile Bisericii Ortodoxe cu restul lumii creștine", se încununează cu succes un proces de un veac de...