If Romfea is to be believed, this is already been decided and agreed upon. While remarriage of clergy has been (rarely) allowed in terms of economy, never has the rule of being the “husband of one wife” been overturned. Until now. It is unclear as to the motivations of the change. To read the full...

The news on the break in communion between Moscow and Constantinople is coming in so quickly, that it is probably best to just note what is being said right from official organs at this point: we here at NFTU have never seen anything like this. Don’t ask us: we’re just watching. Read more for...

Over the past year, discussion were held between the Bishops of the Autonomous Orthodox Metropolia and the Churches of Metropolitan Anghelos of Avlona and Metropolitan Seraphim over the question of acceptance of the heresy of Imyaslavie. Satisfied with the reversal of the Greek and Russian positions, communion was restored, with the approval of the...

(Russia Insider) Solzhenitsyn's Damning History of the Jews in Russia - a Review "The Jews accumulated wealth by cooperating with each other. (p. 31)." "They made profits by taking the peasants’ grain to the point of impoverishing them (and causing famine), turning it into brandy, and then encouraging drunkenness. (p. 21, 24)." "Jews forced peasants into lifelong debt...

Proceedings of the RTOC Synod of Bishops Meeting in January 2018 Date of publication on web-site: 16.03.2018 The Synod of Bishops of the Russian True Orthodox Church was held from the 19 January/ 1 February to 21 January/ 3 February 2018, in the city of Dimitrov of Moscow region. The Synod made the following decisions: - To sever...

  Introduction A question that has not seen much public discussion is: "To what extent are the texts we have of the Latin Fathers interpolated in favour of later Filioquist teachings?"  It seems that the standard reply of some Orthodox in recent decades has been to simply concede that what we have is exactly what we...

The following is from the book "Reflections of a Russian Statesman", translated by Robert Crozier Long.  Pobedonostsev was the ober-procurator of the Holy Synod, a jurist, and a Russian Orthodox ecclesiastical writer and political philosopher.  That which is founded on falsehood cannot be right. Institutions founded on false principles cannot be other than false themselves....

The Russian religious news site "Portal-Credo" is reporting of a continuing breaching between the Russian True Orthodox Church centred in Omsk, under Archbishop Tikhon, and the Serbian True Orthodox Church, led by Bishop Akakije. In machine translation form via google translate we have the following from "Portal-Credo":   The Serbian True Orthodox Church, governed by the...

The translation of St. Aldhelm of Sherborne's existing prose works in "Aldhelm: The Prose Works", made by Anglo-Saxon and Medieval Latin scholars Michael Lapidge and Michael Herren, helps provide much needed information for the student of the Anglo-Saxon Church.  The work was originally published in 1979. It is as a translation enjoyable and readable,...

A Public Statement on Orthodox Deaconesses by Concerned Clergy and Laity   The Patriarchate of Alexandria’s appointment of six “deaconesses” in the Congo in February 2017 has prompted calls in some corners for other local churches to follow suit. In particular, a group of Orthodox liturgical scholars has issued an open statement of support for Alexandria, declaring...

NFTU: More from the "Official" and so-called "Canonical Orthodoxy" https://news.fordham.edu/university-news/83996/ Together with the University of Exeter in the United Kingdom, Fordham’s Orthodox Christian Studies Center has been awarded a research grant from the British Council in the USA to examine LGBTQ rights alongside Eastern Orthodox identity. As part of the British Council’s Bridging Voices project, the grant...

NFTU was asked to post the following paper on the subject of cessation of communion. The document was composed by the Romanian speaking Moldovan Non-Commemorator Brotherhood of St. Ignatius Brianchaninov . Here is the document in pdf format 369539740-Breaking-Communion-With-Heretics-and-the-15th-Canon-I-II-Constantinople.   It may also be read on Scribd.