St. Nectarios Educational Series –
Heresy and heretics have existed from the time of the Apostles and exist today whether as sects outside the Church or heretics in disguise within the Church (or so it appears). [Read more…]
Heresy
Ungodly Errors and Heretical Teachings of Archbishop Elpidophoros
Archbishop Elpidophoros has a long history of heretical and ungodly behavior. He supports legalizing abortion and gay marriage, and has infamously baptized surrogate children of “married” homosexuals. [Read more…]
Abp Elpidophoros Compares Greek Bishops Against Gay Marriage Law to Fascists
In recent interview Abp. Elpidophoros affirmed he will baptize children of gay couples again. He also compared hierarchs of the Greek Church who openly protested the legalization of gay marriage in Greece with Nazis. [Read more…]
Lazar Puhalo: Morality and Virtue are Evolutionary Constructs
Deposed Deacon Puhalo, who masquerades as an “archbishop” with the blessing and implicit consent of the OCA Synod, continues to spread heretical and false teaching, using the authority granted to him by the same Synod, to directly contradict the truth, the Scriptures, and the teaching of the Orthodox Church.
On October 26 on his Facebook page, Lazar Puhalo made several outrageous and categorically false statements about morality and virtue. Here’s a sampling of his latest non-Orthodox and non-Christian declarations:
“Morality is an evolutionary construct, it is not a product of religion.” [Read more…]
Orthodox Church Has Mission to Guard the True Faith Against False Prophets, Teachings, and Practices
by Fr. Basil Ross Aden –
A primary mission of the Orthodox Church is to guard the true faith against false prophets, teachings, and practices. To be Orthodox is to be committed to the truth: the truth of the Gospel, the Holy Trinity, the scriptures, and the Holy Tradition
The word for today is “false.” In today’s reading of 2 Corinthians 11:5-21, we note how seriously St. Paul takes the false teachers who are misleading the congregation at Corinth. The Apostle is so concerned—and incensed—that he is willing to defend himself on the low level of his adversaries. [Read more…]
Melissa Walker Braun Proudly Supports Homosexuality, Bisexuality, Transgenderism, and Gay Marriage
by Jennifer Davis –
Melissa Walker Braun describes herself as a “Proud Pride Mom” and an LGBTQ “Mama Bear.” For several years now, Melissa has been proudly and publicly promoting all things LGBTQ+ on Facebook. She “unhesitatingly and wholeheartedly supports” homosexual, lesbian, bisexual, transgender, and queer pride. She is also a supporter of gay “marriage.”
Melissa is the wife of Deacon Gary Braun under the Antiochian Orthodox Christian Archdiocese and serves at St. Athanasius Antiochian Church, in Santa Barbara, California. [Read more…]
Apostasy in the Orthodox Church Supported by Certain Clergymen and Hierarchs
by Archbishop Averky (Taushev) –
The enemy of the human race is employing all his efforts and all his means to pull it [the Orthodox Church] down, and he is widely supported in this by open and secret apostates from the true faith and Church, including even those who have betrayed their high vocations and oaths as clergymen and even as hierarchs heading certain individual churches.
In truth, we are experiencing a terrible time — a time such as has never before been seen in the history of Christianity, in the history of mankind! A time of almost total instability! [Read more…]
Nicholas Denysenko: Official Church Teaching on Homosexuality Doesn’t Represent a Consensus
Excerpts from To Baptize or Not: God’s Love and Image article written by Dcn. Nicholas Denysenko in defense of Abp. Elpidophoros baptism of surrogate children of two “married” homosexual men. [Read more…]
Woke Academics Promoting Homosexuality and Subverting Orthodox Christianity in US
Listed below are Part 1 and Part 2 of the full transcript of a documentary film entitled ‘The Secret Subversion of American Orthodoxy‘. The video documents how billion dollar NGOs and Catholic universities are providing lavish funding to a group of radical left ‘Orthodox’ ‘scholars’ and clerics and their organizations and publications.
The film profiles 16 prominent ‘Orthodox’ scholars and clerics, including bishops. A list of them, and other personalities featured in the film, has been provided at the beginning of the transcript. It includes well-known Orthodox personalities such as Sister Vassa Larin and Archbishop Elpidophoros (the head of the Greek Church in America), and left-radical publications such as ‘Public Orthodoxy’ (run by George Demacopoulos and Aristotle Papanikolaou) and ‘The Wheel’ (run by Inga Leonova). [Read more…]
Lazar Puhalo is Not a Canonical Orthodox Bishop, He’s a Deposed Deacon
by Fr. Ioannes Apiarius –
Puhalo is an impostor and illegitimate hierarch of the Church. His views are not only not Orthodox, they are not even Christian.
Retired “Archbishop” Lazar Puhalo is not a canonical bishop of the Orthodox Church. Puhalo remains a deposed deacon (Lev Puhalo) who was defrocked in 1981 for heretical teaching and rebellion against his bishop. He was found guilty of multiple violations of Church canons and laicized by the Synod of ROCOR. Puhalo was never canonically reinstated as a deacon, or rightly ordained a priest, or properly elevated as a bishop by any canonical Orthodox Church or legitimate Orthodox jurisdiction anywhere. [Read more…]