OCA summarizes Met. Hilarion’s visit
September 1, 2010 by Fr. Johannes Jacobse · 1 Comment
Note (from the release): “Metropolitan Hilarion affirmed the Russian Orthodox Church’s commitment to uphold its granting of autocephaly to the Orthodox Church in America in 1970,” said Father Alexander Garklavs after the meeting. My question: While I welcome the affirmation, does the Church that grants autocephaly actually have the power to rescind it? I wouldn’t [...]
Met. Hilarion: Our concern is to preserve and consolidate unity of Russian Orthodox Church
July 20, 2010 by Fr. Johannes Jacobse · Leave a Comment
On July 17, 2010, Metropolitan Hilarion of Volokolamsk, head of the Moscow Patriarchate’s department for external church relations, speaking in Church and World talk show, answered questions from anchorman Ivan Semenov concerning the work of the DECR as a church external policy department. – Does an Orthodox Christian in his everyday life ever encounter the [...]
A Holy Alliance between Rome and Moscow Is Born
May 24, 2010 by Fr. Johannes Jacobse · 4 Comments
Again, almost incomprehensible just a few short years ago. Highlight: “The common objective: the “new evangelization” of Europe. A delegation of the Russian Orthodox Church visits the Vatican, which publishes an anthology of the patriarch’s writings. A meeting between Kirill and Benedict XVI keeps getting closer.” by Sandro Magister Chiesa Espresso ROME, May 24, 2010 [...]
Russian Orthodox leader says church will not interfere in politics
May 1, 2010 by Fr. Johannes Jacobse · 11 Comments
Ecumenical News International / 30 April 2010 By Jonathan Luxmoore Warsaw, 30 April (ENI)–A leader in the Russian Orthodox Church has insisted his church has no wish to be an official State denomination and will never side with any single political force. “The threat that the church will be used by government doesn’t exist today,” [...]
Metropolitan Hilarion to visit Italy
April 19, 2010 by Fr. Johannes Jacobse · 58 Comments
Moscow clearly has taken the lead in world Orthodoxy. +++++++++++++++++ Metropolitan Hilarion of Volokolamsk, Chairman of the Moscow Patriarchate’s Department for External Church Relations, will visit Italy from May 14th to 20th, 2010, with the blessing of His Holiness Patriarch Kirill of Moscow and All Russia. The programme of his stay will include a visit [...]
Metropolitan Hilarion of Volokolamsk: Culture is at risk of becoming anti-culture without the Church
March 10, 2010 by Fr. Johannes Jacobse · 2 Comments
Brilliant! Met. Hilarion’s warning deals with what Nietzsche called the “transvaluation of values” — what his dark prophesy warned would happen in the West because “God is Dead,” by which he meant that Western culture was entering into a period where it functioned within the cultural structures shaped by Christianity but without concrete, existential communion [...]
Russian church leaders defend marriage, speak out on family crisis
February 5, 2010 by Fr. Johannes Jacobse · 2 Comments
Russian Orthodox Church leaders called on Christians on Thursday to be firm in defending traditional marriage and lamented the family crisis in the country. According to some estimates, over half of the marriages in Russia end in divorce. Women in the 140-million-strong country undergo some 1.5 million abortions annually. “We, Christians of different denominations, should [...]
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