A move to require clergy to report child abuse even when it is revealed during the sacrament of confession is in sharp ...

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Worshippers, including an Orthodox priest wearing a black cassock, walk on the dusty streets of Kwethluk, Alaska, on June 19, 2025, heading to St. Nicholas Orthodox Church for the canonization ...

Matushka, from Russian for mother, is a term of respect for Orthodox priest's wives. "St. Olga of Kwethluk, Matushka of All Alaska," as she is officially known, was canonized on June 19 as the ...

Most of the state’s Orthodox priests, serving about 80 parishes, are Alaska Natives. More than a dozen are from Kwethluk. A debate, now resolved, over Olga's remains ...

The first female Orthodox saint in North America was an Indigenous woman who spent her entire life with her Yup'ik family and neighbors in a village in southwest Alaska.

The humble Yup’ik mother and midwife known as Matushka Olga is now officially a saint in the Orthodox church, after a historic two-day gathering that drew hundreds to her home village of ...

Why Olga’s gender and ethnicity matter For a church led exclusively by male bishops and priests, the glorification of Olga, the first Yup’ik saint, is significant.