Incommunion Content by Category – Incommunion, Essays, Peace, OPF

VIII. War and peace

VIII. 1. War is a physical manifestation of the latent illness of humanity, which is fratricidal hatred (Gen. 4:3-12). Wars have accompanied human history since...

Merciful stories

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A Patriarch Calls on Soldiers in the Soviet Army Not to Shed Blood On August 19, 1991, Soviet KGB and party hard-liners returned from their...

IX. Crime, punishment, reformation

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IX. 1. Christians are called to be law-abiding citizens of their homeland on earth, accepting that every soul should be "subject unto the higher powers"...

X. Personal, family and public morality

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X. 1. The difference between the sexes is a special gift of the Creator to human beings He created. "So God created man in his...

XI. Personal and national health

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XI. 1. At all times the Church has been concerned for the human health, both spiritual and physical. From the Orthodox perspective, however, the physical...

Advice on Peacemaking from the Saints

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St. John Chrysostom: Do you wish to honor the Body of the Savior? Do not despise it when it is naked. Do not honor it...

XII. Problems of bioethics

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XII. 1. The rapid development of biomedical technologies, which have invaded the life of modern man from birth to death, and the impossibility of responding...

XIII. The Church and ecological problems

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XIII. 1. The Orthodox Church, aware of her responsibility for the fate of the world, is deeply concerned for the problems generated by the contemporary...

XIV. Secular science, culture and education

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XIV. 1. Christianity, having overcome heathen prejudice, demythologised nature, thus contributing to the development of natural science. With time, science, both natural and humanitarian, became...

XV. Church and mass media

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XV. 1. The mass media play an ever-increasing role in the contemporary world. The Church respects the work of journalists called to provide the public...

XVI. International relations

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Problems of globalisation and secularism XVI. 1. Nations and states enter into economic, political, military and other relations with one another. As a result, states...