A Treatise Offered in a Time of Pestilence by St. Cyprian of Carthage

The Plague of Cyprian was a pandemic that afflicted the Roman Empire from about AD 249 to 262. The plague is thought to have caused widespread manpower shortages for food production and the Roman army, severely weakening the empire during the Crisis of the Third Century. Its modern name commemorates St. Cyprian, Bishop of Carthage, an early Christian writer who witnessed and described the plague. The agent of the plague is highly speculative due to sparse sourcing, but suspects include smallpox, pandemic influenza and viral hemorrhagic fever (filoviruses) like the Ebola virus.

Coronavirus and the Church: An Interview With Metr. Hierotheos of Nafpaktos

Coronavirus and the Church

An Interview with Metropolitan Hierotheos of Nafpaktos and Agiou Vlasiou

Question 1: What is the coronavirus (covid-19)?

Answer: It is a virus which, like most viruses, consists of RNA's, and uses the structure, the nucleus and the DNA of cells to function.

It is known that the genetic information from the DNA, which is in the nucleus of the cell, is transferred to the RNA, which is in the cytoplasm, and is then transcribed into proteins. This copying, transcription and translation is the central doctrine of biology.

However, the reverse flow of information from RNA to DNA disrupts that central doctrine of biology. To make sense of it, I will use the image of the hijacker, who does not have his own airplane, he does not know how to fly, but he uses the aircraft's instruments and the pilot for his own purpose.

What a Greek Bishop Did When an Epidemic of Cholera Ravaged a Community in 1854

In the Greek scientific journal Mnemon (Μνήμων) 14 (1992, pp. 49-69) there is an informative article by Christos Loukos titled "Epidemic and Community. Cholera in Ermoupolis, Syros (1854)." The article examines the problems faced by the community of Ermoupolis on the Greek island of Syros when it faced an epidemic of cholera in 1854. In this article we also read about the stance taken by the local ecclesiastical community. Loukos writes: