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from DW News (Deutsche Welle)
Broadcasting & Media Production Company in Bonn, Germany
Ukrainian church wins independence battle against Moscow Patriarchate
Ukraine should have its own Orthodox church, independent from Moscow, the Istanbul-based Ecumenical Patriarchate has ruled in a bitter row. Representatives of Russia's Patriarch Kirill slammed the move as "catastrophic."
Ukrainian church wins independence battle against Moscow Patriarchate
Ukraine should have its own Orthodox church, independent from Moscow, the Istanbul-based Ecumenical Patriarchate has ruled in a bitter row. Representatives of Russia's Patriarch Kirill slammed the move as "catastrophic."
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from Intellectual Takeout
Nonprofit Organization in Bloomington, Minnesota
Why All Good Social Justice Warriors Support Presumption of Innocence
I have a friend in Papua New Guinea named Monica Paulus who was accused of casting sorcery spells because a person died in her village. Her neighbors almost murdered her until she fled the region. Now she works to save other women falsely accused of sorcery who are targets of torture and killing. She recognizes the classic Western civilization value of presumption of innocence. To millions of Americans, Brett Kavanaugh seems just as guilty as Monica seemed to her accusers. They sincerely believe, because the power groupthink has over the human mind, that Kavanaugh has all the signs of their suspected profile of an abuser of women. Millions of people have repeated this so often that it feels deeply true. Plus, there were accusations! Monica can sympathize. Once the first accusation was levied, it was easy for others to believe it was true. In Monica's culture, belief in the power of sorcery to kill children and cause calamity has been universal for millenia.
Why All Good Social Justice Warriors Support Presumption of Innocence
I have a friend in Papua New Guinea named Monica Paulus who was accused of casting sorcery spells because a person died in her village. Her neighbors almost murdered her until she fled the region. Now she works to save other women falsely accused of sorcery who are targets of torture and killing. She recognizes the classic Western civilization value of presumption of innocence. To millions of Americans, Brett Kavanaugh seems just as guilty as Monica seemed to her accusers. They sincerely believe, because the power groupthink has over the human mind, that Kavanaugh has all the signs of their suspected profile of an abuser of women. Millions of people have repeated this so often that it feels deeply true. Plus, there were accusations! Monica can sympathize. Once the first accusation was levied, it was easy for others to believe it was true. In Monica's culture, belief in the power of sorcery to kill children and cause calamity has been universal for millenia.
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from National Review
RIGHT BIAS
Sorry, Democrats, Progressive Mob Action Is a Real Problem
That the mainstream media pretends otherwise doesn’t make it any less true.
What happens when you combine the classic “Republicans pounce” media narrative with a healthy dose of whataboutism? You get the sad spectacle of the last few days, in which the media has rationalized and minimized genuinely menacing, troubling left-wing mob action — because, after all, there can be only one villain on the national stage.
Sorry, Democrats, Progressive Mob Action Is a Real Problem
That the mainstream media pretends otherwise doesn’t make it any less true.
What happens when you combine the classic “Republicans pounce” media narrative with a healthy dose of whataboutism? You get the sad spectacle of the last few days, in which the media has rationalized and minimized genuinely menacing, troubling left-wing mob action — because, after all, there can be only one villain on the national stage.
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from Orthodox Christianity
Organization in Moscow, Russia
Following the end of today’s session of the Holy Synod of the Ecumenical Patriarchate, an announcement was read out by Metropolitan Emmanuel of France, flanked by the Patriarchal Exarchs to Ukraine, Archbishop Daniel of Pamphilon and Bishop Ilarion of Edmonton.
The head of the Serbian Orthodox Church, His Holiness Patriarch Irinej, has sent two letters to His All-Holiness Ecumenical Patriarch Bartholomew, advocating that the provision of a new autocephaly is possible only with the consent of all local Orthodox Churches.
Greek media is reporting that the Holy Synod of the Ecumenical Patriarchate resolved today to remove the anathemas from the two leaders of Ukraine’s schismatic Orthodox bodies. With reference to their respective Church sources, Romfea and orthodoxia.info are reporting that the Synod has removed the anathemas placed upon “Patriarch” Philaret Denisenko of the “Kiev Patriarchate” (KP) and “Metropolitan” Makary (Maletich) of the “Ukrainian Autocpehalous Orthodox Church” (UAOC).
The Holy Synod of the Patriarchate of Constantinople will not decide to grant the long-awaited tomos of autocephaly, as expected, but rather it will announce the opening of its own podvoriye, or official representation/dependency in Ukraine, sociologist, historian, and publicist Nikolay Mitrokhin writes on his Facebook page today.
The issue of granting a tomos of autocephaly to create a new church in Ukraine has been postponed and will not be decided upon at the ongoing meeting of the Holy Synod of the Ecumenical Patriarchate. The Synod’s 3-day session will come to an end today. The Ecumenical Patriarchate will make a decision on the Ukrainian issue at a later point, His Eminence Metropolitan Arsenios (Kardamakis) of Austria and Exarch of Hungary commented, noting that the issue has been postponed until “the right time comes,” reports Deutsche Welle.
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from The Spokesman-Review
Newspaper in Spokane, Washington
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