The conference of bishops has decided that from now onwards the Church will ask prospective couples to present their HIV test certificate before they are married.

These decisions have been taken to restore the dignity and beauty of marriage and family and for the respect of God's commandments.

And we may presume that God will continue to call both homosexuals and heterosexuals to the priesthood because the Church needs the gifts of both.

One of our great allies at present is the Church itself. Do not misunderstand me. I do not mean the Church as we see her spread out through all time and space and rooted in eternity, terrible as an army with banners. That, I confess, is a spectacle which makes our boldest tempters uneasy. But fortunately it is quite invisible to these humans.

We have the unique distinction of being the only Orthodox church dedicated to Saint Anna in the United States - and her Shrine since we have her relic. The parish has the responsibility of being prepared to offer hospitality to the thousands of people who will visit every year, and that is only proper that we build a church that will accommodate those visitors.

The most sickening church sermons are those you hear during funerals, about how the soul has left the body and that the soul can live without the body and lots of superstitions that we can communicate with dead