By Subdeacon Nektarios, M.A. In 2023, while researching, writing, and compiling the Orthodox Patristic Witness Concerning Catholicism for Uncut Mountain Press, I came across an obscure and long-forgotten book published in 1991 by New Sarov Press with the blessing of then Bishop Hilarion (Kapral), the future Metropolitan of ROCOR. The book, titled A Call from the Holy Mountain , had been written and published by the Monastery of Philotheou on Mount Athos and authored by the now well-known...

By Subdeacon Nektarios, M.A. According to many in the "Orthobro" community, who are either entirely ignorant or in some cases outright deceitful, they continually insist that one cannot canonically break communion with a bishop who publicly preaches heresy until an Ecumenical Council is convened to condemn that heresy. This claim is found nowhere in the history of the Church until these heretical, micro-famous YouTubers began promoting it. However, as we see in the writings of the famous...

By Subdeacon Nektarios, M.A. During November 4–6, 2025, various jurisdictions within World Orthodoxy participated in yet another heretical ecumenist event, officially sponsored by the Huffington Ecumenical Institute of Hellenic College Holy Cross (HCHC), the seminary of the Greek Orthodox Archdiocese of America (GOARCH) in Boston, Massachusetts. This heretical gathering, entitled “Eastern and Oriental Orthodox Churches: Moving the Dialogue Forward,” was an utterly disgraceful display of...