May
9
Further Challenges to Greek Orthodox Clergy-Laity Conference
May 9, 2008 | Comments Off
The Take Our Church Back! blog affirmed a recent letter to the editor challenging the GOA’s misconduct policy and commitment to child safety and had this to say:
We join Mrs. Metropoulos in imploring that delegates attending the Clergy-Laity Conference this summer challenge the Archdiocese’s Clergy Sexual Misconduct Policy. We must:
Question the hierarchy’s commitment to child […]
Apr
18
The Pope and the Orthodox: Serious About Sexual Misconduct Reform?
April 18, 2008 | Comments Off
by Theophan Zarras
The media is widely reporting news of the Pope’s current visit to the United States and his comments on the sexual abuse crisis.
The pontiff called the scandal a cause of “deep shame”, and spoke of the “enormous pain” that communities have suffered from such “gravely immoral behaviour” by priests. Source
The pope went […]
Feb
1
Rod Dreher: The treason of the bishops
February 1, 2008 | Comments Off
Rod Dreher, former Roman Catholic, now an Orthodox convert, posted an article on his blog which speaks very frankly about the current sex scandals within the Orthodox church.
First he gives some background:
Some readers are aware that the Orthodox Church in America, my church, is undergoing a huge scandal now centered on the hierarchy — especially […]
Nov
19
Preconceived notions of child abuse
November 19, 2007 | Comments Off
Guess columnist Erin comments on Rod Dreher’s blog on the current state of the Catholic abuse crisis:
We Catholics have been facing up to the reality of clerical child abuse for the past several years now. Some of us were unafraid to confront it; others wanted to deny it or excuse it; but the fact remains […]
Nov
16
It’s Always the Cover-up That Gets Them
November 16, 2007 | Comments Off
The Orthodox of America are asking themselves many questions regarding the scandals of our day. What did the Orthodox Hierarchs know about the unethical practices of our clergy, and when did they know it? The National Herald today asked:
Did members of our Church’s ecclesiastical framework, at various levels of the Church’s administrative strata, have prior […]
May
9
The Abomination of Child Molestation
May 9, 2007 | 2 Comments
By Fr. Vladimir Berzonsky
“But whoever causes one of these little ones who believe in Me to sin, it would be better for him if a millstone were hung around his neck, and he were drowned in the depths of the sea” (Matthew 18:6)
Through the millennia and the translations from Aramaic through Greek and into […]
May
2
Avoiding Uncanonical Churches
May 2, 2007 | 5 Comments
When worshiping at Orthodox churches, make sure it is a canonical church in communion with the worldwide autonomous and autocephalous canonical Orthodox churches.
While even canonical churches have their fair share of problems, a schismatic church accountable to no one is more likely to be a haven for abuse than churches who are inter-dependant with other […]
Mar
22
Our Church Should Insist on Disclosure and Transparency
March 22, 2007 | 1 Comment
A call for accountability on sex abuse lawsuit payouts in a letter to the Editor of The National Herald:
Our Church Should Insist on Disclosure and Transparency
March 20, 2007
To the Editor:
It is dismaying to read Theodore Kalmoukos’ articles in your March 10 edition concerning allegations of sexual abuse involving a longtime Greek Orthodox priest. What is […]
Mar
15
More Tough Questions on Katinas Situation
March 15, 2007 | 1 Comment
Further tough questions are being raised by the The National Herald regarding how the Katinas situation has been handled:
Mar
12
Rod Dreher: What is it about bishops?
March 12, 2007 | 5 Comments
Conservative author, editorial columnist for the Dallas Morning News, Beliefnet conservative politics and religion blogger, and recent convert to Orthodoxy from Catholocism, has this to say on the Katinas scandal:
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