Category: Blog Archive
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Fr. Patrick Henry Reardon: Delegation to Syria
Source: Antiochian Archdiocese | Fr. Patrick Henry Reardon During this past September 13-18, I was part of a delegation sent to Syria by Metropolitan PHILIP to investigate the internal political situation in that country, particularly with respect to its Christian minority. Our group consisted of six priests of the Antiochian Archdiocese: Fathers Dimitri Darwich (our…
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La Stampa: Divisions in Orthodox Church Hinder Pope’s Meeting with Patriarch of Moscow
We are getting more news from the Catholic/Italian press than we are from Orthodox sources. This report appears reliable; the author has a good grasp of the ecclessiological disagreements between Constantinople and Moscow, particularly the conflict about what constitutes primacy in Orthodoxy. This question must be settled before a Pan-Orthodox Council can take place and…
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![Interview with Met. Hilarion on Unity and Primacy in the Orthodox Church [AUDIO]](https://www.aoiusa.org/wp-content/uploads/2010/03/hilarion-sitting.png)
Interview with Met. Hilarion on Unity and Primacy in the Orthodox Church [AUDIO]
I published the article below earlier, but after listening to the recording of the interview, there’s a lot more to report. The planning for a Pan-Orthodox Council continues, and one of the benefits is that thorny issues raised in the past such as the granting of autocephaly, the role of the Patriarch of Constantinople in…
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![The Legacy of Communism, Abortion, and Other Anti-Life Philosophies in Russia [VIDEO]](https://www.aoiusa.org/wp-content/uploads/2011/10/population-control.png)
The Legacy of Communism, Abortion, and Other Anti-Life Philosophies in Russia [VIDEO]
Population Research Institute Ideas have consequences, and the legacy of bad ideas is self-destruction. This video examines the legacy of the anti-life and anti-family ideas of that Communist ideology imposed on Russia after the Bolshevik Revolution. These same ideas that ravaged the Russian nation are today prevalent in the West. Abortion, the redefinition of marriage,…
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Hadley Arkes. From California: Another Front in the Culture Wars
Source: Ruth Institute | By Hadley Arkes From California again we get a glimpse of the future – or the future that a political class is consciously seeking to prepare for us in reshaping the culture. During the summer the legislature enacted, and Governor Jerry Brown signed into law, SB48, as an amendment to “the…