“Young Elders and Confession” by Fr. Anthony Perkins Good Guys Wear Black (AFR Podcast) In this episode Fr. Anthony talks about the problem of "young elders" in the post-Soviet Russian Orthodox Church (and in our own) and then, after a commercial break, shares his approach and advice on Con … [Read more...]
A Risk-Averse Approach to Confession
There is a tradition among some Orthodox bishops not give a blessing for newly ordained priests to hear confessions. Presumably this is in recognition of the tremendous harm even well-meaning but ill-formed confessors can do (and have done, as with the "mladostartsi" or "young elders" in the p … [Read more...]
