Category: Blog Archive
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![Checkmate – A Short Documentary about St. Gregory of Nyssa [VIDEO]](https://www.aoiusa.org/wp-content/uploads/2011/01/st-gregory-nyssa-icon.png)
Checkmate – A Short Documentary about St. Gregory of Nyssa [VIDEO]
St. Gregory is the brother of St. Basil the Great and St. Macrina. He served as a priest while married to his wife, Theosebia. The Prologue says that he was consecrated Bishop of Nyssa after being widowed. Some accounts say that they each voluntarily became monastics. Some accounts know of a definite close relationship between…
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Harry Coin: Wag the Dog
By Harry Coin How much grand significance and control is due the old world churches? Consider these few arial photography offerings by the BCC offering a unique perspective by superimposing the old world places aiming to direct the future of Orthodoxy …onto …. well … see for yourself (link opens new tab): Rome’s boundaries laid…
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![Trifkovic: Liberal Totalitarianism More Oppressive than Communism [VIDEO]](https://www.aoiusa.org/wp-content/uploads/2011/01/srdja-trifkovic.png)
Trifkovic: Liberal Totalitarianism More Oppressive than Communism [VIDEO]
H.L. Mencken Club Distinguished Speaker Series: Srdja Trifkovic on Western Postmodernia vs. “Real Socialism” Americans love telling themselves “it’s a free country,” but Srdja Trifkovic relates that in terms of (self-)censorship on key issues like race and immigration, American is a place less open to honest communication than the Soviet Bloc.
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WAPO: Eastern Orthodox believers hit the streets
Source: Washington Post | Julia Duin | HT: Byzantine, TX To be on the Mall around noon Monday was to be confronted with a vast crowd of what appeared to be mostly Catholics assembled for the annual Right to Life March. There were students wearing hats and scarves bearing the name of seemingly every Catholic…
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On Anniversary of Roe v. Wade, Obama Corrupts Political Language
Source: Contentions | Peter Wehner On the 38th anniversary of the Supreme Court’s pro-choice decision in Roe v. Wade, President Obama said in a statement that Roe “affirms a fundamental principle: that government should not intrude on private family matters.” To which one might ask: since when is lethal violence used on the defenseless and…