

Vatican Returns Parthenon Marbles to Greece
Completed in the fifth century BC in devotion to the pagan goddess Athena, the Parthenon represents both Athens’ architectural and civilisational apex.
Completed in the fifth century BC in devotion to the pagan goddess Athena, the Parthenon represents both Athens’ architectural and civilisational apex.
In 1989, with the fall of what Ronald Reagan rightly called the “evil empire,” this magnificent Church of martyrs emerged from the catacombs of communism, not liquidated, not re-educated, but forged like gold in the furnace of persecution.
The incident comes one month after an assailant hurled Molotov cocktail at the Russian House of Science and Culture, an important cultural institution in Paris that promotes Franco-Russian relations.
“As an American citizen, I can’t wrap my mind around this, how people who share the same faith—because Russia is predominantly Orthodox, and Ukraine is predominantly Orthodox—could be so evil to each other. But then, we have to think about Cain and Abel, he killed his brother, so, nothing new under the sun, unfortunately,” Rev. Tomson said.