Category: Blog Archive
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John Finnis on the Moral Status of the Fetus
From the American Catholic blog. Look at the clear thinking going on, the direct challenge to secularists and others working to establish the culture of death. Then compare this to our preoccupation with global warming and other dubious fads, the confusion (as the essay below states) between morality and moral status in our didactic discourse,…
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Vatican II and the Orthodox Bishops
Fr. Tom asks: Is it possible that the teaching of the Second Vatican Council about the ministry of bishops in the Roman Catholic Church is now being taught and practiced in an adapted and altered form in our Orthodox churches today? It’s a cogent and sober warning about the subversion of Orthodox ecclesiology that unfortunately…
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The Episcopal Assembly, the OCA, and the future Orthodox Church of the USA
By Fr. Thomas Hopko It’s not clear what is now happening for the establishment of an autocephalous Orthodox Church of the United States made up of the member churches of the former SCOBA. These are my questions: What concrete steps are now being taken to establish an autocephalous Orthodox Church of the United States that…
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Quad City Times: Archbishop talks about DNA, faith
Source: Quad City Times Genetics and faith. The 100-year-old staying power of St. George Greek Orthodox Church, Rock Island, is all about DNA and believing – just as it is for the church as a whole. That is one of the messages being delivered this weekend by Archbishop Demetrios of the Greek Orthodox Archdiocese of…
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Abp. Chaput: “Those who deny the sovereignty of God over human society are the most dangerous enemies of human liberty”
Good things here for the Orthodox too. You may know the name of John Courtney Murray. He’s worth remembering. Father Murray was the American Jesuit who helped craft the Second Vatican Council’s landmark Declaration on Religious Liberty. A year after World War II ended, with millions dead and Europe and Japan in ruins, Murray wrote…