Number one, when you compare all priests today to all priests 20 years ago, what we find is that priests today are more likely to consider themselves both theologically, orthodox and politically conservative than they did 20 years ago. But again, that’s all priests if you delve into that ...
Please drop in because they always have me on this channel. They don’t always have you. So just from the onset, I want to talk about, there’s common reasons why people stay Orthodox and Catholic, which aren’t intellectually compelling, but the real world are compelling, even if there...
92 Suppl. 5 2022 WHY DID LORD NOVGOROD THE GREAT FALL? S369 was an "ulitsa" ("street"), which was also a self-gov- erned community headed by the ulitsa elders.8 The administrative and territorial structure of the Novgorodian land was complex, heterogenous, and very far from being ...
“Now the Orthodox and the Roman Catholic will say Christ has given authority to the teachers of the church to define dogma and to establish the limits of the faith against heretical opinion. It’s as if they were to say the teacher has given certain students the authority definitively to ...
This Good Friday practice is more common among the Orthodox and Byzantine Catholic churches. According to OrthoChristian.com, "The Holy Shroud is taken out of the altar on Friday afternoon during the Vespers of Great Saturday, at the third hour of Holy Friday—that is, the hour of the dea...
Each year I waited for courtship to start working and for my homeschool friends to start getting married. It never happened. Most of them are still single. Some have grown bitter and jaded. Then couples who did get married through courtship started getting divorced. I’m talking the kind of...
The idea for the Supremacy Myth argument was inspired by my disdain for the intellectually dense philosophy of Singer and Regan, as well as an essay by H.G. Wells in his book The Fate of Man, where he fixated on the chosen people myth in Orthodox Judaism as the cause of anti-Jewish ...
THE BIGGEST LOONIEST DEAL EVER It brought the excessive Eighties to an absurdly fitting end. Robert Campeau's history of nervous breakdowns and volatile behavior was well known to the lenders who financed his ill-conceived takeover binge. So why did they give him all that money?
Why is Thomas Aquinas important to the Catholic Church? Why was Voltaire important in history? Why was the church important to law and order in the medieval period? What reasons does Gregory VII give for excommunicating Henry IV? Why did Henry II and Thomas Becket argue? Why is Moliere impo...
Oy. The Babylonians and the ancient Jews did not just happen to both have 7-day weeks with the 7th day being holy. The Babylonians were excellent astronomers and the Jews adopted the 7-day week from them during their Babylonian captivity. As for the names of the days ...