Orthodoxy

This past fall I had the opportunity to visit a construction project that is nothing short of a miracle. I saw a group of mostly volunteers and amateurs, working with small donations, building a ch…

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Eastern Orthodoxy, one of the three major doctrinal and jurisdictional groups of Christianity. It is characterized by its continuity with the apostolic church, its liturgy, and its territorial churches. Its adherents live mainly in the Balkans, the Middle East, and former Soviet countries.

Editor’s Note: This essay was originally written in Russian by master iconographer Anton Daineko of Minsk, Belarus. It beautifully explores the paradox of creativity within iconography from the ver…

Orthodoxy in pictures

Archbishop Terrence Prendergast of Ottawa, Ontario, right, holds a bottle of holy water while blessing a crowd of people during a prayer vigil outside The Koven nightclub in Ottawa, prior to a satanic black mass on Aug. 17, 2019. About 200 people held the prayer vigil as a satanic black mass occurred Aug. 17 at a heavy metal club in the Canadian capital. (Credit: John Pacheco/The Catholic Register via CNS.) Orthodoxy is the Church founded by Christ for the salvation of mankind, and therefore…