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2.07.10 The Archbishop of Canterbury receives honorary doctorate from St. Vladimir’s (Read the SVS account here.) Commentary Archbishop Rowan William’s Lecture at St. Vladimir’s The Archbishop's Question and Answer Session Transcribed by Lydia Berzonsky (Read it here.) __________________________________________________________________
1.30.10 Diocese of Midwest Launches Selection Process The Diocese of the Midwest (OCA) has offered its first glimpse into the process of selecting a bishop to succeed the late Archbishop Job. A press release issued on January 28th on the diocesan website at www.MidwestDiocese.org stated: (Read more here.) Commentary The Archbishop, The Seminary and the Controversy by Lydia Berzonsky (OH) (Editor's note: OCANews.org has asked Lydia Berzonsky, who wrote last summer about the SVS conference, to share her thoughts and impressions about the Archbishop of Cantebury's speech at SVS this weekend. Here is her first installment..} Controversy continues to rumble around Archbishop of Canterbury Rowan Williams’ upcoming lecture at Saint Vladimir’s Orthodox Theological Seminary and the decision to confer upon him an honorary degree. (Read more here.) ____________________________________________________________________ 1.25.10 A Brief Note From OCANews.org Dear Friends: After a brief, but unavoidable hiatus, with this posting OCANews.org completes its fourth year of publication, and enters its fifth. (Read more here) News From Across The Orthodox World •Belgrade, Serbia On the 40th Day of The Falling Asleep of Archbishop Job To Love Is To Remember _________________________________________________________________ 1.4.10 News From Across The OCA (Read more here.) From the Philadelphia Inquirer SPECIAL REPORT: A FRAYED CONNECTION By David O'Reilly, Inquirer Staff Writer (Read the article here.) Four Tributes to Archbishop Job Archbishop Job and the Struggle for Light by Fr. Vladimir Berzonsky, Parma, OH (Read more here.) Observations From A Distance by Fr. Steven Kostoff, Cincinnati, OH (Read more here.) Memory Eternal! by Fr. Oliver Herbel, Fargo, ND (Read more here.) (Reprinted with permission from here.) “A Noble Task”: The Ministry of +Archbishop Job (Read more here.) ____________________________________________________________________ 12.21.09 News From Orthodox America • Syosset, NY More on Archbishop Job from the Chicago Tribune (here) ___________________________________________________________________________________________ 12.19.09 From The Chicago Tribune Orthodox Archbishop Job of Chicago dies Archbishop Job, the head of the Orthodox Church of America in Chicago and the Midwest, died unexpectedly Friday morning, according to a church official. He was 63. (Read more here.) _________________________________________________________________________________________
12.18.09 +Archbishop Job Unexpectedly Succumbs to Pneumonia The Archbishop passed away at 11:25 this morning at a hotel in Maumee, Ohio, where he had stopped for the night on his way from a deanery meeting in Cleveland back to Chicago. He was taken by paramedics to the hospital, where he was pronounced dead shortly after he arrived. Fr. John Zdinak, Chancellor of the Archdiocese, spoke with the Archbishop this morning, and offered details of the Archbishop's passing on Ancient Faith Radio here. Ironically, the Midwest Diocesan Council committee organized to detail the process and schedule by which +Job's successor was to be nominated, in an effort to be proactive in light of the Archbishop's announced retirement in 2011, had its first telephone conference call last evening. The OCA has posted a brief biography of the late Archbishop together with details of his funeral arrangements in both Chicago and Cleveland here. All those Orthodox Christians who uphold the principles of transparency, accountability and conciliarity in Church life have lost champion today, as well as a gentle teacher of the spiritual freedom the true life in Christ brings. Little of what has been accomplished in the OCA in the last four years would have been possible but for the late Archbishop's courage and steadfastness in the face of constant opposition. May his memory be eternal. ------ A Note to Readers: The Comments section has been incapacitated as Go-Daddy, our host, migrated all its sites to new servers 10 days ago. We are still working on the problem, and apologize for the inconvenience. __________________________________________________________________ 12.09.09 With Financial Controversies Unresolved, Trojan War Expands The battle for financial transparency and accountability in St. George’s parish has spilled outside church walls to involve neighbors and potentially, the city of Troy, Michigan itself. In addition to the conflicts involving the parish priests, parish council members, the former treasurer, multiple parishioners, retired clergy, HUD, state tax authorities, the diocesan bishop and most recently the Metropolitan (read that story below), a December 4th letter has emerged complaining that the parish, through its Church hall, has been routinely violating its permitted usages. (Read more here.) _______________________________________________________________ 12.07.09
of Diocesan Bishops • Orders Parish Councils to “Disregard” All Directives Not Bearing His Signature Mistake” After a four-month truce Metropolitan Philip dramatically re-opened the battle over the authority of the diocesan bishops in the Antiochian Archdiocese by issuing a two page directive instructing parish councils to “...disregard any directives regarding new policies or procedures for your parishes you may have received or may receive in the future unless they are issued from my office under my signature”. The new, unexpected demand took clear aim at Bishop Mark of Toledo, complaining about “a directive... sent out by His Grace, Bishop MARK implementing a new financial system of checks and balances for our parishes in the Diocese of Toledo.” (Read more here.) _________________________________________________________________
"Reading Fr. Washburn’s reflection (11.09.09) was like spending time with old friends - in this case the Seven Dwarfs..." (Read more here.) Fr. Washburn Replies to "Antiochian Priest" He referred repeatedly to my “thesis,” which surprised me a bit because I didn’t think I had stated one. It seemed like it might be a good idea to respond by stating my thesis, but when I tried it didn’t seem to work. Why? I think it was because my comments here for the most part are less “thesis” than “anti-thesis.” And it is pretty hard to clearly state an antithesis when the other people’s thesis has not been clearly delineated in the first place..." (Read more here.) _________________________________________________________________ 11.20.09 In a letter sent to his priests today, Bishop Mark of the Antiochian Diocese of Toledo and the Midwest has ordered financial review committees be immediately established in every parish throughout his diocese in light of newly-discovered financial misconduct that has left one parish $110,000 poorer, and one priest with an $18,000 debt on his personal credit card. The Antiochian Bishop’s letter and instructions read: (Read more here.) News From Around the Orthodox World • New York, NY Evangelical, Roman Catholic and Orthodox Christian leaders have signed a declaration saying they would not cooperate with laws that they claim could be used to compel religious institutions to participate in abortions, or to bless or recognize same-sex couples. The declaration is described by the NY Times as "an effort to rejuvenate the political alliance of conservative Catholics and evangelicals that dominated the religious debate during the administration of President George W. Bush." The signers included 9 Roman Catholic archbishops and Metropolitan Jonah, the primate of the Orthodox Church in America. (Read the full NY Times story here.) _________________________________________________________________ 11.12.09 Three New Reflections (Read it here.)
(Read it here.) A Comment Concerning Fr. Washburn's Reflection (Read it here.) _________________________________________________________________
News From Across Orthodox America • Syosset, NY The Minutes of the September 2009 joint meeting of the Synod and Metropolitan Council of the OCA were posted this past Saturday, November 7th, complete with financials. You can read them here. • Washington, DC Fr. Ray Velencia, who was elected as the clergy delegate from the Diocese of Washington in late August, has stepped aside from the OCA’s Metropolitan Council at the request of Metropolitan Jonah. He has been replaced by the alternate, Fr. John Vitko. (Read more here.)
New Reflection A Reflection "....I believe that it might do us good to consider McLuhan’s idea in the context of this site and the role it purports to play in the shaping of Orthodoxy in North America. In short I would like to suggest that the nature of the medium, in this case the internet and blogosphere, is itself the message we get here even more than the content that people purport to communicate and consider. ..." (Read more here.) _____________________________________________________________________________________ 11.6.09 TROJAN WARS • Amid Hints of Tax Problems, Parish President Now Suggests Internal Audit Amid a flurry of letters, irenic, angry and notarized, the battle in St. George parish, Troy MI, over questions concerning parish finances raised by the former parish Treasurer, Mr. George Samra, continues. (Read more here.)
(Read it here.) New Reflection Two Short Essays (Read it here.)
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