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The Church and the Terror State

Posted on 13 December 2008

With the death last week of Patriarch Alexy II, Russian Orthodox Christians lost their first “post-Soviet” leader. The patriarch presided over the resurrection of the world’s largest Orthodox Church, a faith community that had been targeted for annihilation by communist…

Solzhenitsyn and His Critics

Posted on 08 August 2008

The world justly celebrates the life of Alexander Solzhenitsyn, a great man whose work and witness seems most aptly summed up in a single word: prophetic. But, as prophets are in a habit of doing, he made some people feel…

Who Will Protect Kosovo’s Christians?

Posted on 27 May 2006

Last week, Montenegro voted to end its union with Serbia, the last remaining alliance of the former Yugoslav federation. News accounts of the vote frequently add matter-of-factly that Kosovo, the Serb province placed under the administration of the United Nations…

Trespassing Mt. Athos

Posted on 27 September 2003

There must be an unwritten law which holds that, as programs for universal government and world courts advance, the exercise of religious morality in public life becomes increasingly hopeless.



Case in point: The European Parliament has issued a new report on…

Book Review: And Why Not?, by François Michelin

Posted on 27 June 2003

Imagine that you are a career counselor at a university and you are making a case to a group of students about a promising career track. You point out that a field of great opportunity awaits them, one that gives…

FCC Deregulation and the Church Page

Posted on 13 June 2003



“How often we recall, with regret, that Napoleon once shot at a magazine editor and missed him and killed a publisher. But we remember with charity, that his intentions were good.” — Mark Twain

No sooner had the Federal Communications Commission…

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