13 July 2015 – ACL Media Release Today’s editorial in The Australian and a commentary piece in the Weekend Australian by Editor-at-Large Paul Kelly represent welcome if not belated discussion about the consequences of legislating a new definition of marriage. Australian Christian Lobby Managing Director Lyle Shelton welcomed the raising of freedom of conscience and freedom of religion issues by the mainstream media. “We have …

When our Lord and God and Saviour Jesus Christ instructed His Apostles to render unto Caesar the things which are Caesar’s, and unto God the things that are God’s (Matthew 22:21), He foretold of the future what was already true in the days in the Roman Empire: that a Christian would never be one who sat dismissively apart from the world and …

St. Gregory Palamas ca. 1296-1359 Although St Paul called the body ‘death’ when he said, ‘Who will deliver me from the body ‘of this death?’ (Rom. 7 : 24), this is simply because the materialistic, carnal mentality is body-like, and so he rightly called it a body when comparing it to the spiritual and divine mind. Further, he did not say simply …

Saint Nicholas Velimirovich  All the prophets have from the beginning cried out to my soul, imploring her to make herself a virgin and prepare her­self to receive the Divine Son into her immaculate womb; Imploring her to become a ladder, down which God will descend into the world, and up which man will ascend to God;1 Imploring her to drain the …

7 July 2015 Americans need to understand that the endgame of the LGBT rights movement involves centralized state power—and the end of First Amendment freedoms. I am one of six adult children of gay parents who recently filed amicus briefs with the US Supreme Court, asking the Court to respect the authority of citizens to keep the original definition of …

 Also related to the foregoing is the teaching of both Holy Scripture and the holy Fathers about the taxing of souls. At this point we shall examine the subject thoroughly, as it has a bearing on the terrible mystery of death. We find this topic in the whole biblico-patristic tradition and it corresponds to a reality which we need to …