Saint Gregory the Theologian wrote: ‘God that created man, since the very beginning let him free and self-governing. He honoured man with self-government, so that good belongs to whom that he choses it not less than to the one who gave him the seeds of good. So that with self-government, i.e. with freedom, man becomes complete and his actions are not irresponsible. Each one of our actions obtains moral value because the involuntary is unstable, tyrannical and alien to the spirit of Christ.’ Continue reading “‘Free man’ is the responsible man”
What does an abortion cost? A human life!
Like everyone else, you probably know exactly when you were born. But, did you ever imagine your ‘self’ before it was born? Your mother has never forgotten your first capers inside her body, or your movements later on as a baby, telling her how you wanted to come out, into the light! Continue reading “What does an abortion cost? A human life!”
Nature is not God
A study by Th. I. Riginiotis
Translation A. N.
In our day and age there is a noticeable increase in people who have been unearthing from oblivion and reliving the worship of ‘gods’ belonging to ancient pagan religions. This appears to be a worldwide phenomenon, which is intensifying as contemporary peoples seek their cultural roots, and while western peoples are seeing that they can now shake off the oppressive and imperialist versions of Christianity which took shape in the West during the past thousand years: Catholicism and Protestantism. Continue reading “Nature is not God”
Secular Psychotherapy and the Therapeutic Method of the Orthodox Church
Is secular “psychotherapy” compatible with the principles and the anthropology of the Orthodox Church?
An interview with Dr Jean Claude Larchet (*), University Professor who holds a doctorate in the Humanities, and has studied Psychopathology, Philosophy and the Eastern Church Fathers, and has also had clinical experience in psychiatric hospitals.
This is a transcribed excerpt from “Radio-Paraga”, a program on the official radio station of the Church of Greece. It was broadcast on Sunday, 6 February 2000, under the title: “Is Psychoanalysis and Psychotherapy a Science?”. The program was presented by Father Konstantinos Stratigopoulos.
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Four in ten 11-year-olds have seen their parents break up: Modern youngsters four times as likely to see family collapse as those in the 1960s
- 20% of children born in year 2000 were not living with both parents by 11
- Ease of divorce and lack of shame felt by couples who separate is blamed
- Around 92% of those born to married couples were still living with parents
- But for those cohabiting proportion was only 55%, according to research
- Study also found 1 in 7 had been through more than one family break-up
Four in ten children born in the year 2000 were not living with both parents by the age of 11. Continue reading “Four in ten 11-year-olds have seen their parents break up: Modern youngsters four times as likely to see family collapse as those in the 1960s”
CDC study: Traditional, two-parent biological family the safest environment for children
A new study just released by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) reveals that children living in traditional, two-parent biological families are overwhelmingly safer than children living with just one biological parent or with non-parental caregivers. Continue reading “CDC study: Traditional, two-parent biological family the safest environment for children”
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