Critical dossiers on controversial canonizations, popular cult, patristic criteria, and the difference between historical suffering and conciliar sanctity.
Discernment Dossier
A critical section on controversial canonizations, popular cult, patristic criteria, and the difference between historical suffering and conciliar sanctity.
An examination of whether political suffering can, by itself, become patristic confession.
How Father Ilie Lăcătușu's cult moved from the Petru Vodă milieu into The Orthodox Word at Platina before the Romanian Synod's canonization, and what questions this raises.
An Orthodox discernment study on the canonization of Ilie Lăcătușu, the patristic criteria, relics, political detention, and the category of Confessor.