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PAST HEADLINES

5.5.08 New Reflection
The Real Scandal of the OCA
by Fr. Ted Bobosh, Dayton OH
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5.3.08

Six Million Dollar Lawsuit Filed Against OCA, Others
• Employment Discrimination and Retaliation
Alleged by Maryland Couple
• Contend Priest Breached Seal Of Confession

To Embarrass, Harm Them

(Read more here)

From the "Tundra Drums", Yukon Delta
‘Alcoholism’ plays role in attacks
against bishop, chancellor claims

by ALEX DeMARBAN

(Read more here)

From KTUU TV, Anchorage
Russian Orthodox bishop leaving Alaska

by Sean Doogan
(Read more here)

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4.30.08

News From Around the OCA

• Western Pennsylvania Election Postponed
• Paffhausen To Be Vicar for the South
• Fr. Isidore Says +Nikolai Victim of "Slander"
(Read more here)

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4.19.07
(Editor's note: As has been our custom, OCAnews.org will not be posting new articles or reader's comments during Holy Week. We will resume regular publication on Bright Wednesday, April 30th.We wish you all a joyous Pascha.)

ALASKAN PAPERS REACT TO +NIKOLAI'S DEPARTURE

From the Anchorage Daily News:
Alaska bishop goes on leave
RUSSIAN ORTHODOX:
Nikolai's leadership under investigation.
By MEGAN HOLLAND

From the Kodiak Daily Mirror:
Bishop Nikolai put on leave
By RALPH GIBBS
Mirror Writer
(Read those stories here)
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4.17.08
+NIKOLAI TO LEAVE ALASKA
     • Controversial Bishop of Alaska Agrees to Leave
     • +Herman, +Benjamin To Administer Diocese
     • Other Important Decisions Made
(Read more here)

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4.11.08 Voices From the Church, Part 5

Let God Arise!

Priest Paul Burholt, Kerrville TX

(Read it here)

Open Letter to Metropolitan Herman and the Synod of Bishops

Mr. Monroe Causley

(Read it here)

Core Issues Facing the OCA

Deacon John Zarras, Southbury CT

(Read it here)

Letter to Metropolitan Herman

Holy Trinity Cathedral, Chicago IL

(Read it here)

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4.14.08 The Metropolitan Council

The Rest of the Story

• Metropolitan Council Discusses Church Crises

in Closed Session
• Motion For +Herman To Resign Tabled
• Audits Requested of All Stavropegial Institutions

(Read more here)

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4.11.08 Voices From the Church, Part 4

Dr Meyendorff’s Proposal:
Is it enough?
by Archpriest John M. Reeves
State College, PA

(Read it here)

The Synod of Bishops:

In The Wrong Place in Egypt
by David Barrett, Southbury CT

(Read it here)

Additional Names Posted To The "Alaskan Church Workers Letter"

(Read it here)

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4.9.08 Voices From the Church, Part 3

Letter to the Inquiring Bishops

by Fr. Peter Askoar, Russian Mission, AK

(Read it here)

St. Andrew House Establishes Fund

from Dean Calvert, Detroit MI

(Read it here)

To the Synod of Bishops and the Faithful

of the Orthodox Church in America

by Matushka Mariam Vernak, Paramus NJ

(Read it here)

IN THE MEANTIME…

by Fr. Timothy Lowe, Fairfield CT

(Read it here)

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4.8.08 Voices From the Church, Part 2

Open Letter to the Bishops and Faithful of the OCA

by Matushka Juliana Schmemann, Montreal QC

(Read it here)

Joint Letter of Thirty-Seven Former Church Workers in Alaska

(Read it here)

Former SVS Faculty Speak Out

(Read it here)

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4.7.08

Preconciliar Commission holds consultation on 15th All-American Council

(Read more here)

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4.3.08 Breaking News
Synod to Meet Again

on Alaskan Crisis

• +Job Calls For Synod Meeting: +Herman Agrees
• St. Vladimir's Alumni Launch On-Line Petition
• Metropolitan's Account of Oleksa Incident

Challenged

(Read more here)

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4.2.08

Council Unanimously Asks Synod

To Reverse +Nikolai Decision

In a short letter to the Synod of Bishops of the OCA, the Metropolitan Council has expressed its concern over the crisis in the Diocese of Alaska. The statement, released this evening by Syosset, was adopted by the Council unanimously at its meeting at the Chancery, which ended this afternoon.

The statement, in full, follows:

"Your Beatitude, Your Eminences, Your Graces:

At its spring meeting the Metropolitan Council unanimously approved the following statement to the Holy Synod of the Orthodox Church in America concerning the crisis in the Diocese of Alaska.

After long and heartfelt discussion during our meeting March 31 to April 2, 2008, the Metropolitan Council recognizes that the current crisis in Alaska is a source of paralyzing dysfunction in our whole Church. This problem requires careful investigation and consideration of fact, and we fully understand that the competency to take such action rests with the Holy Synod, to bring it to a decisive outcome without delay.

Taking account of the anxieties, fears and pain of the Orthodox faithful of Alaska, and the deep concern expressed by all the faithful of the Orthodox Church in America, the Metropolitan Council is profoundly disappointed by the Holy Synod's decision to lift the leave of absence of His Grace, Bishop Nikolai before a proper solution has been determined, and respectfully asks our hierarchs - in faith, hope and love - to immediately reverse this decision."

A report on the Council's decisions - including a motion asking the Metropolitan to resign that was eventually tabled - will be posted on Friday.

- Mark Stokoe

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4.1.08

"We are Compelled to Speak..."

- St. Vladimir’s Faculty Issues

Statement On OCA Crisis

(Read the whole statement here)

More News From Around the OCA

(Updated 3:30 PM EDST)

(Read more here)

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3.31.08 A New Series: Voices from the Church

An Open Letter To The Orthodox Faithful

by Roy Madsen, Kodiak, Alaska (Read it here)

Synodal Leadership: An Oxymoron?

By Protodeacon Eric Wheeler (Read it here)

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3.28.08

The Morning After

(Read more here)

3.27.08

+NIKOLAI RESTORED BY SYNOD

At 1 PM this afternoon the OCA posted the following:

"SYOSSET, NY [OCA Communications] – On March 27, 2008, the Holy Synod of Bishops of The Orthodox Church in America, meeting at the OCA Chancery in Oyster Bay Cove, NY, issued the following statement:

“The Holy Synod of Bishops is aware of the concerns of clergy and faithful of the Diocese of Alaska. It recognizes the expressed desire of their diocesan hierarch to address these concerns, and to take whatever action is necessary to restore peace.

“Therefore, the Holy Synod has designated His Eminence, Archbishop Nathaniel, and His Grace, Bishop Tikhon to travel to Alaska, to inquire into these concerns in the week of March 31, 2008, and to report to the next Regular Meeting of the Holy Synod in May 2008. “The Holy Synod of Bishops, accepting the assurances of His Grace, Bishop Nikolai of full cooperation with the bishops being sent, withdraws the leave of absence previously imposed.”

3.26.08
ALASKAN, OTHER CRISES MOVE EAST

• Alaskan Television Reports +Nikolai
On Way to New York
• Alaskan clergy meet: Fr. Oleksa,
Mother Capitolina elected to MC
• Synod Meeting To Be Short
• Monk Silver Claims To Have “Moscow” Tape;
Nescott Responds (Read more here)

3.25.08 Kodiak Daily Mirror
Investigation Into Bishop May Expand
To Include Land Deals (Read the story here or here)

3.24.08 March 31- April 2nd in Syosset
Metropolitan Council To Discuss Current Situation, Confidentiality, Future (Read more here)

3.21.08 Kodiak Daily Mirror

+NIKOLAI TO ATTEND SYNOD

(Read the article here or here)

3.19.08

SYNOD CALLS EXTRAORDINARY MEETING

(Read more here)

3.17.08
INVESTIGATIVE MEMO CONTRADICTS +NIKOLAI
(Read more here)

LETTER TO ALASKA
from Fr. Nicholas Molodyko-Harris (Read the letter here)

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3.13.08
Nikolai’s Supporters:

It’s Really All About Money
(Read more here)
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3.11.08
+Nikolai Orders Clergy to Disobey Metropolitan
(Read more here)
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3.10.08
Garklavs Named Administrator For Alaska

(Read more here)

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3.08.08

+Nikolai Refuses To Leave
• Synod May Be Forced to Suspend Bishop
• Vansuch Reportedly Declines Administrator Position
(Read more here)

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3.7.08 "mandatory Leave of Absence"

+NIKOLAI PLACED ON LEAVE, ORDERED TO QUIT DIOCESE
• Investigation to be conducted

• Fr. Vansuch appointed Administrator

(Read more here)

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3.7.08 From the Kodiak Daily MIrror
Russian Orthodox church leaders mum on bishop removal
By RALPH GIBBS
Mirror Writer

(Read more here or here)

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3.6.08 Front Page of Today's Anchorage Daily News

Bishop Nikolai fires critic from teaching position
RUSSIAN ORTHODOX: Pastor challenged boss's authority in Daily News interview.
By ELIZABETH BLUEMINK

(Read the story here or here)

From the Orthodox Forum:
Off My Chest...
by Bruce Little
(Read more here)

Meanwhile, in Syosset...

The Lesser Synod meeting ended. For the second day the OCA remained silent about the situation in Alaska.

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3.5.08 Breaking News
Synod Debates +Nikolai
While Alaskan Priests Boycott

• +Nikolai Responds In Web Letter
• Decision Expected This Afternoon

• Minneapolis Deanery Offers Support to Yup'ik Clergy

• Berzonsky: "Their Finest Hour"

(Read more here)

Letter to Fr. Garklavs, OCA Chancellor

by Raisa Baldwin, Kodiak Alaska (Read more here)

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3.4.08 As the Lesser Synod Meets Today

The Point of No Return

by Mark Harrison (Read more here)

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3.3.08

Former Kodiak Island Priest Speaks Out
By Mike Rostad

(Read more here)

The Significance of Yup'ik Eskimo Clergy Speaking Out

by George Owletuck

University of Alaska, Fairbanks

(Read more here)

An Open Letter to Metropolitan Herman and the Synod of Bishops
by John Richard Dauenhauer
(Read the letter here)

Documents Challenge +Nikolai's Account, Actions

by Mark Stokoe
(Read more here)

+Nikolai Likens His Priests to "Adolescents Acting Out"
(Read the full interview here)
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3.1.08

BETWEEN DESPAIR & DIGNITY:
ALASKA TURMOIL DEEPENS, SPREADS

• +Nikolai 'Dumbfounded' By Criticism,

Dismisses Fr. Oleksa After ADN article
• Chancellor of St. Vladimir's Joins Outcry

Against +Nikolai
• Fr. Vasily Fisher's Letter to Synod

(Read more here)

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2.28.08 "We have seen priests punished, suspended, deposed and we kept silent out of fear."

MORE ALASKAN CLERGY SPEAK OUT, RECOUNTING ABUSE

(Read more here)

2.28.08

REFLECTION

by Fr. John Garvey (read it here)

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2.26.08
KUSKOKWIM CLERGY
CALL ON +NIKOLAI TO RESIGN

(Read more here)

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2.25.08
ANSONIA FIRM ON WITHHOLDING

(Read more here)

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2.22.08 "We feel imprisoned in our own country..."

"Alaska Today"

by Fr. Michael Oleksa

(Read more here)

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Alaska Reps Resign
From Metropolitan Council,

As Clergy Protest Grows

In a letter to OCA Chancellor Fr. Alexander Garklavs, Archimandrite Isidore (Brittain) and Ms. Mina Jacobs have resigned from the Metropolitan Council. More Alaskan native clergy have published letters asking the Synod of Bishops for assistance, including Fr. Phillip Alexie, of the Presentation of the Theotokos parish in Nunapichuk, a village in the Kuskokwim River region of western Alaska. (Read more here)

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2.21.08

Citing Fear and Abuse, Alaskan Clergy Cry Out Against +Nikolai (Read more here)

2.20.08
Protodeacon Eric Wheeler's "Letter to Ansonia"
(Read it here)

2.18.08 From the Connecticut Post

"Parish in dispute with national church
KATE RAMUNNI kramunni@ctpost.com

(Read more here)

2.15.08 Interview with the Kodiak Daily Mirror
+Nikolai: "I Don't Run Away"
• "Makes no apology" for tonsuring Dushkin
• Sidebottom's allegations "unsubstantiated"
• Fr. Innocent (Dresdow): “Our enemies .....
(Read more here)

2.15.08
A Proposal for the 2008All-American Council
by Spencer Estabrooks
Director, St. Arseny Orthodox Theological Institute
Winnepeg, Manitoba, Canada (Read it here)

2.12.08 New From the Kodiak Daily Mirror

OCA officials concerned about Alaska diocese
By RALPH GIBBS
Mirror Writer (Read more here)

2.11.08
Open Letter to the Pre-Conciliar Commission
by Dr Paul Meyendorff
Fr Alexander Schmemann Professor of Liturgical Theology St Vladimir's Orthodox Theological Seminary (Read it here)

2.7.08 From the AP, Fox News.com, The Anchorage Daily News and the Kodiak Daily Mirror...
Complaint Made Against Orthodox Official
By JEANNETTE J. LEE, ANCHORAGE, Alaska (AP)

(Read more here)

2.07.08
FEDERAL COMPLAINT
FILED AGAINST OCA BISHOP

OF ALASKA, CHANCELLOR
(Read more here)

2.5.08
News From the OCA
         • Reader Dushkin Suspended
         • +Theodosius Ill
         • +Nikolai To Press Charges Against +Job
         (Read more here)

2.4.08 Reposted from Rod Dreher's "Crunchy Con"

The Treason of the Bishops
(Read more here)

2.1.08
"A Reflection"
Proto-Deacon Anthony Kruge,

Three Saints Church, Ansonia, CT

"Cyprian of Carthage and the
Fruitful Exercise of Episcopal Authority"
by Archpriest Lawrence R. Farley
Langley, B.C., Canada

1.30.08
Midwest Parish, Seeking Answers,

Withholds AAC Special Assessment

(Read more here)

1.28.08

Major New England Parish Votes To Withhold: Bishop Calls for Special Meeting to "Revisit" Decision

(Read more here)

1.25.08 The Kondratick Papers: Part Two

Letters and Affidavits (Read more here)

1. 21.08
Troubles On The Coasts;

Prayers in the Middle

(Read more here)

1.17.08
"Democratic Perspectives"
Fr John A. Jillions, Ottawa, Ontario, Canada

1.15.08

KONDRATICK DOCUMENTS

MADE PUBLIC

(Read more here)

1.11.08

+JOB Confirms Deposition Attempt

Read the Archbishop’s letter here.

1.11.08 UPI Picks UP Alaska Story
Molester allowed to become Orthodox reader

(Read the whole article here or here)

1.10.08 From the Anchorage Daily News:

Church gives sex offender a role in step toward the priesthood

By BETH BRAGG

(Read the whole article here or here)

1.9.08

Archbishop Job:

"The Allegations Were True"

(Read more here)

1.7.08

Back To Square One

by a Priest of the OCA

1.4.08

New Year Begins With Old Lawsuit

(Read more here)

-2008 -

12.22.07 Two New Reflections
"Caught in the Crossfire"

by Fr. Basil Biberdorf, The Woodlands, TX
"Twelve Steps for Healing the Church"

By Mr. David Barrett, Southbury CT

12.21.07
News From Around the OCA
     • Attempt to Depose Archbishop Job Fails
    • Alaskan Investigation Ends With No Action Taken

12.19.07
The Metropolitan's Message: Part Two

Struggling Harder & Harder

12.17.07
The Metropolitan's Message: Part One
Canned Goods

12.13.07
Kondratick Appeal Denied,

"Summary Report of Preliminary Report" Re-issued

(Read the Metropolitan's Statement here)

12.10.07
News From Around The OCA

12.10.07
"A St. Nicholas Day Reflection"
by Fr. Thomas Hopko

12.06.07
More Tangled Webs:
The Dismissal of Paul Bodnar

12.4.07
The Crucial Moment
A Letter to Archbishop Job by Fr. Vladimir Berzonsky

12.1.07
BODNAR ABRUPTLY DISMISSED
AS SECRETARY OF OCA

11.28.07
Bethesda Parish Calls
On Metropolitan to Resign

11.26.07 Editorial
Truth & Misinformation

11.23.07

News From Around The OCA

11.22.07
EPA Diocese Assembly

11.17.07
Bishop of Alaska, Chancellor

Decry Internet, “Enemies”

1.13.07
Kucynda Bids Farewell

in Bombshell Email To Synod, Council

11.9.07

News From Around the OCA

11.6.07
The Winter of Discontent

11.2.07
Reliable Reporting
or Disingenuous Distorting?
How to Critically Read an “Investigative Report”
by Robert Wachter, Esq.

10.31.07
News From Around the OCA

10.30.07
Two New Reflections on the Crisis
An Archpastoral Letter from Bishop Nikon, Bishop of Boston
"Responsibility and Choice" by Archpriest Ted Bobosh, Dayton OH

10.29.07
News From Around the OCA

10.26.07
PART TWO: THREE DAYS IN OCTOBER
The Opening Address of the Metropolitan

10.24.07

Members Of 'New Special Investigative Committee' Announced

10.22.07
+DMITRI Confirms Fr. Kucynda Out, Affirms Kondratick's "Innocence"

10.20.07 Five Part Series Begins: Three Days in October
Major Resolution Passed; Little Resolved by Metropolitan Council

10.18.07
Synod Issues Statement On Appeal of Former Chancellor

10.17.07

Compromise "Special Investigative Committee" Begins; Fr. Kucynda Ends?

10.16.07
Summary Report of the Preliminary Report of the Special Investigative Committee and the Proceedings of the Spiritual Court for Robert Kondratick

10.16.07
Opening Address of Metropolitan Herman to the Synod and Council

10.16.07
Synod, Metropolitan Council Meet Oct. 16-18, 2007

10.15.07 Editorial

Stepping Up and Stepping Down

10.15.07 More from Western Pennsylvania

Report of Your Metropolitan Council Representatives

10.14.07
Showdown In Mingo Junction: W. PA Joins in Saying “No”
to +Herman

10.12.07
News From Around the OCA

10.10.07 Syosset Strikes Back: Part Three

On Reconstituting the Special Commission

10.8.07 Syosset Strikes Back: Part Two of Three
It’s Not About the Money:
Why the Resolution from the West Misses the Mark

10.6.07 Syosset Strikes Back: Part One of Three
The Axe Swings Broad, But Not Deep At Syosset

10.5.07
Midwest Votes: No Confidence, No Money, No +Herman

10.4.07 Fourth in a Series: The End of the Special Commission
Expressing 'No Confidence' in the Metropolitan's Leadership, Archbishop Job Calls on Primate to Step Down

10.2.07 Third in a Series: The End of the Special Commission
A Church in Denial Addendum to the Report 46th Diocesan Assembly of the Diocesan Representatives to the Metropolitan Council

By Archpriest Vladimir Berzonsky

10.1.07 Second in a Series: The End of the Special Commission
The Shame and the Sham:
Why I Resigned from the Special Commission

by Archpriest John M. Reeves

9.28.07 First in a Series: The End of the Special Commission

SPECIAL COMMISSION DISSOLVED

9.24.07
NEWS FROM AROUND THE OCA
(Read more here)

9.19.07

National On-Line "No Confidence" Petition Launched From St. Mark's, Bethesda, MD

(Read more of the story here)

9.17.07Fr. Berzonsky's Report to the Midwest:
"Everything Must Be Laid Out; Hiding Nothing That is Known. Nothing."

(Read the Report here)

9.15.07 BREAKING NEWS

CHAIRMAN, MAJORITY OF MEMBERS RESIGN FROM SPECIAL COMMISSION IN PROTEST

(Read more here)

9.14.07

SPECIAL COMMISSION IN CRISIS

• Job Informs Metropolitan of Intent to Reconvene

• Commission to Include Nescott
• In Reply, +Herman Reasserts Suspension Of Both

(Read more here)

9.12.07 Reflection
A Letter to the Metropolitan

by Fr. Ted Bobosh, Dayton OH

9.11.07

Question Of The Day (Read it here)

9.10.07
Email Reveals Millions Misused

(Read more here)

9.6.07 Reflection
Meeting the Challenge
by Robert J. Klancko, P.E., CSP, CHCM

Woodbridge CT

9.3.07 Editorial

New Year: Same Old Lies

(Read more here)

8.30.07 From the Washington Post
"Religion News in Brief"
By The Associated Press
Thursday, August 30, 2007; 12:05 PM

(Read more here)

8.29.07

Kondratick Appeals Deposition

(Read more here)

8.27.07
Two Withholdings, And The OCA In Between

(Read more here)

8.24.07
The Episcopacy: A Scriptural Challenge
by David Barrett, Southbury CT

8.22.07
On Sexual Misconduct
by Matushka Ellen Gvosdev, Phd, Ft. Lauderdale FL

8.20.07 The Secret Report, part 3

WARNINGS WERE GIVEN

(Read more here)

8.18.07 "I'm not under investigation from anybody,

and there are no allegations against me"

+Nikolai Denies Investigation Launched Into His Actions,

Denies Even Being Accused

Read the ADN story here)

8.16.07 From the Kodiak Daily Mirror

Trustees talk seminary budget

at board meeting
By BRYAN MARTIN
Mirror Writer

(Read more here)

8.16.07 From the Kodiak Daily Mirror

Bishop Nikolai asked to keep out of church probe of accusations
By BRYAN MARTIN
Mirror Writer

(Read the article here)

8.16.07 The Secret Report Pt. 2
Behind +Nikolai's "Request" for Assistance Is A Report And A Letter

(Read more here)

8.15.07 Breaking News!

Diocese of the Midwest

Begins Withholding

(Read the Archbishop's letter here)

www.MidwestDiocese.org.

8.14.07 Breaking News!

Office of Primate To Conduct Investigation

8.14.07 The Secret Report: Part 1
Additional Allegation Surfaces

Against +Nikolai in Secret Report

(Read more here)

8.13.07
SHS BOARD OF TRUSTEES

TO MEET THIS WEEK

(Read more here)

8.11.07 From the " Kodiak Daily Mirror"

Accusations Cloud Seminary Opening
By BRYAN MARTIN- Mirror Writer

(Read the whole article here)

8.10.07

Report Confirms Synod Failed To Deal

With Alaskan Allegations

(Read the entire report here)

8.8.07

Allegations of Sexual Harassment, Assault, Domestic Violence, Neglect

& Malpractice Hit Alaskan Diocese

(Read more here)

8.7.07 Decision Announced

KONDRATICK DEPOSED

(Read more here)

8.6.07
+Herman Stalls: +Job Pays:

+Nikolai Walks

(Read more here)

8.2.07

Canadian MC Report Offers Robust Defense of Syosset

(Read Dr. Schneider's report here)

7.31.07

KONDRATICK VERDICT IN,

TO BE RELEASED "IN DUE COURSE"

(Read more here)

7.30.07 Synod of Bishops Meets Tommorrow

Why Is the OCA Important For Us?

(Read the Reflection here)

7.28.07
Second Board Member Protests +Nikolai's Actions

(Read more here)

7.26.07
Board Member Protests +Nikolai's Action

(Read more here)

7.26.07 Turmoil At St. Herman's
Board Member Protests +Nikolai's Action
(Read more here)

7.25.07

"..It Appears As If There Is Some Hiding Going On..."
(Read more here)

7.23.07

NEWS FROM AROUND THE OCA
• +JOB Asks Withholding Midwest Parishes for Support
• More Turmoil in Alaska
• New OCA Chancellor Writes Clergy
• Old Habits Die Hard, Though (Read more here)

7.20.07
+Dmitri Calls Deposition of Kondratick “Unthinkable”
(Read more here)

7.18.07
Fear, Anonymity and The Gospel
by Alice Carter, Boston MA

7.16.07
The Metropolitan Council Minutes:

Straining Gnats and Swallowing Camels
(Read more here)

7.10.07 The Metropolitan's Address Pt. 2:
Denial of Reality

(Read more here)

7.07.07
On Meaningful Change

by Alexis Troubetzkoy, Toronto, Ontario

7.5.07

Trial Set To Resume July 6th

(Read more here)

6.28.07

Just the Beginning:

A Reflection on the Ongoing Crisis in the Orthodox Church in America
by Fr. John Hopko, Terryville CT

6.28.07 EDITORIAL
A Benchmark For Reinstatement,

Renewal and Revelation

(Read more here)

6.27.07
MIDWEST CREATES BENCHMARKS

TO CONTINUE FUNDING
(You can read the Council's full statement here.)

6.26.07

OCA Publishes 2006 Financial Documents

(Read the Draft Statement in full here)

6.25.07

A Report to the Midwest Diocesan Council of the Metropolitan Council Meeting in
Syosset, NY, June 12-13, 2007

(Read the full Report here)

6.25.07 The Metropolitan's Address Pt. 1
Denial of Responsibility

(Read more here)

6.25.07

DAY OF PRAYER AND FASTING

6.21.07

Comments and Clarification
on "Best Practices"

by Protodeacon Peter Danilchik

6.19.07

News From Around the OCA

(Read more here)

6.17.07

+Kyrill Passes

6.16.07
Turning the Barge, Pumping Bilge

6.12.07
Metropolitan Opens Council

With Speech Defending His Actions, Attacking "Relentless" Critics

6.11.07 New Reflection
Is There a Way Out?
"An Open Letter to the Synod of Bishops and the Metropolitan Council of the Orthodox Church in America"
by Fr. Ted Bobosh, Dayton, OH.

6.11.07

Kondratick Trial Begins

6.8.07
+Job Calls For Extraordinary Synod

Meeting in July
• In Letter to Midwest Clergy, Archbishop Announces
Day of Prayer and Fasting on June 25th
• Purpose is to "Beg God's Mercy on OCA In This

Time of Crisis"
• With Support of Other, Unamed Bishops, Petitions
+Herman for Special July Meeting of Synod

6.08.07 New Series: Initiating Change
The Primate, The Council and the Future

6.6.07 New Reflection
The Test of Our Integrity
by Igumen Philip (Speranza)

6.4.07
+Job Sends " A Sorrowful Epistle"

to Midwest Clergy
• Promises Special Commission is "Not Dead"
• Recent Events Have Caused Some To "Change
Positions" On Withhholding, New Vote on June 26th
• "Day of Fasting and Prayer" To Be Announced

6.4.07 New Series: Initiating Change
CAESAR'S DECREES:
Fiduciary Duties in a Hierarchical Church

6.2.07 A New Series: Initiating Change

FAILED STEWARDSHIP

An Open Letter to the Diocesan Council of the Midwest

5.31.07

"Reflection"

by Fr. John Garvey, East Meadow LI

5.29.07 The Nescott Dismissal: Part Three
“No Reason Why He Shouldn’t Serve”

+Kyrill Resinstates Nescott to Council

5.22.07
Metropolitan Herman Officially

Suspends Special Commission

5.17.07 New Reflection
"A Statement"
by Lawrence Smith, Harrisburg PA

5.14.07 Part Two In A Series

The Nescott Dismissal:
Silencing Opposition

5.11.07
REVELATIONS, HESITATION HIGHLIGHT MIDWEST MINUTES

& ROMANIAN LETTER

5.9.07 Part One of A Series
The Nescott Dismissal:

“Breach of Confidentiality”

5.7.07 EDITORIAL

The Darkness Within

5.4.07
Withholding Gets Tacit Nod From Archbishop

5.2.07

The Rule of Love:
Re-imagining, Renewing the Church

by Fr. Michael Plekon

Earthly Princes

or Stewards of Episcopal Grace?
By Mark Harrison

4.30.07 Kondratick Trial Update
Archbishop Removes Himself as “Accuser”

4.25.07

"The 'Heresy' of Apostolic Autocracy

By Ken Tobin

"Q&A on Authority in the Church"

by Fr. Vladimir Borichevsky (+1990)

4.25.07 First of Six Reflections

"Why People Leave"

By Fr. John Garvey, Commonweal Magazine

"In the Shadow of Pseudo-Dionysius"

by Fr. John Jillions, Ottawa, Ontario

4.23.07
The Trial of Fr. Kondratick

4.20.07

Fr. Kondratick Suspended

4.19.07 New Reflection Posted
"What is Truth?"by Chaplain (MAJ) Nicholas A. Czaruk, US Army (Ret.)

4.17.07
LATEST DEVELOPMENTS

4.16.07

EDITORIAL

3.31.07

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3.30.07

LATEST DEVELOPMENTS

3.29.07 New Reflection Posted
"The Year 2002 " by Wayne Tatusko

3.29.07 New Reflection Posted
"Maccabean Times" by Fr. Ted Bobosh

3.28.07
+Dmitri Defends The Indefensible

3.27.07
Cries of Anger, Denial, Confusion, Resolve

3.24.07 This is Restoring Order?

BLACK FRIDAY
• Herman Dismisses Nescott from Commission, Metropolitan Council

• Synod Has 'No Plans' To Release Special Commission's Report

• +Dmitri Now Refuses To Release Kondratick, Says Charges 'Unproven'

3.22.07 DAYS OF DECISION IN SYOSSET
STUNNING SYNODAL STATEMENT

CONCLUDES HISTORIC MEETING
• Synod: "We were wrong..."
• Kondratick's Explanations:
"Neither Credible Nor Persuasive"
• Former Chancellor To Be Suspended
As Metropolitan Council Recommended