Uploaded January 2025 | Updated September 2026, 2 weeks ago

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Father John Whiteford and Father Joseph Suaiden try to hash out the different perspectives on who is the authentic Orthodox Church and what difficulties are posed by the other side.

Topics:

-KGB/FSB involvement & Sergianism vs Peter the Great's "reforms"
-Is ROCOR getting more liberal due to MP influence?
-The WCC 
-Political motivations for union between ROCOR and MP
-Is Global Orthodoxy graceless?
-New calendar saints (Paisios for example)
-Old Calendar" saints (Elder Ieronymos of Aegina, Elder Kallinikos the Hesychast, and Elder Philoumen of Jacob's Well)
-ROCOR anathemas 
-Fragmented nature of TO 
-Tangental communion prior to 2000
-Conciliarity and the Adoption of the New Calendar in 1924 
-Intercommunion between Alexandria-Antioch and the Monophysites?

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