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Fr Chad Arneson’s Analysis of Harry Potter, A Quarter of a Century Overdue

July 26, 2026July 26, 2026 Editor

From the Patristic Orthodoxy Substack by Fr Chad Arneson: The Illusion of Baptized Magic Harry Potter, John Granger, and the...

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Two Natures before Chalcedon: Patristic Dyophysite Language

February 26, 2020February 26, 2020 Bishop Enoch 0 Comments

Introduction Were there Church Fathers prior to Chalcedon [or even Ephesus] that used the language of not only “in Two

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Bishop Ulrich of Imola in Defense of Married Clergy

January 28, 2020 Bishop Enoch 0 Comments

[Translation by Fr. Marco Gorgi] ABOUT THE AUTHOR AND THE LETTER We know very few things concerning the author

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Tomos of Synod of Blachernae in 1285 Against the Filioque

August 16, 2017November 3, 2019 NFTU NEWS 0 Comments

Source: http://www.oodegr.com/english/oikoumenismos/filioque_beccus.htm?fref=gc By the most holy and ecumenical Patriarch, Lord Gregory of Cyprus, who was attacked by certain individuals, and for

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Letters of Pope St. Gregory II (+731) to Emperor Leo Against Heresy of Iconoclasm

August 12, 2017October 28, 2023 NFTU NEWS 0 Comments

This letter, by Pope St. Gregory II, was presumably written in the year 729. We can gather this because his

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Fr. Vladimir (Guettee) on St. Augustine and the Papacy

July 28, 2017 NFTU NEWS 1 Comment

Further down is an extract from Fr. Vladimir Guettee’s useful book “The Papacy”, which he wrote after his conversion to Orthodoxy.

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Archbishop Arnulf of Orleans (+1003) and the Synod of Verzy (991AD) on the Papacy

July 9, 2017 NFTU NEWS 0 Comments

“Looking at the actual state of the papacy, what do we behold? John [XII.] called Octavian, wallowing in the sty

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The Fight for True Orthodoxy in Romania

February 27, 2017November 3, 2019 NFTU NEWS 0 Comments

[Reposted from the site https://traditiaortodoxa.wordpress.com Original post: https://traditiaortodoxa.wordpress.com/2007/06/25/persecution-in-romania/ ] During this period, the True Orthodox Christians of Romania were also undergoing persecution.

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St. Basil the Great’s “Address to Young Men on the Right Use of Greek Literature”

February 14, 2017 NFTU NEWS 0 Comments

I. Many considerations, young men, prompt me to recommend to you the principles which I deem most desirable, and which

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Autocephalous Church of Ravenna Resists Early Attempts at Roman Encroachment

December 14, 2016 NFTU NEWS 0 Comments

[Source] “It happened in that time, that the Roman pope sent a legation to [Maurus] telling him to hasten to

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