Category: Blog Archive
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Orthodox Priest to Conduct March for Life Benediction
Source: The Times-Tribune An Orthodox priest from Jermyn will have a key role at Monday’s annual March for Life in Washington, D.C. The Very Rev. Archpriest John Kowalczyk, pastor of St. Michael’s Orthodox Church in Jermyn and chancellor of the Diocese of Eastern Pennsylvania, will conduct the benediction preceding the anti-abortion march. The Rev. Kowalczyk…
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Orthodox Lead the Tulsa Pro-Life March
Orthodox Christian led the March for Life in Tulsa, Oklahoma last Saturday. This was the second March for Life in Tulsa. George Michalopulos, a frequent contributer to the AOI Observer, is one of the organizers. Good work, George!
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Muresan: Spinning – Is Anyone Serious About the Episcopal Assembly?
Source: Orthodox Christian Laity By Ronald Andre Muresan I was four years old in 1960, the year the SCOBA Orthodox bishops’ council was formed, under ever-mounting calls (GOYA, SOYO, CEOYLA, etc.) for a North American Orthodox Synod, independent of the Old World, neither more nor less than the countries our ancestors came from. My father…
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Peter and Helen Evans: Bishops wont act? Ask for a blessing, then do it yourself!
Peter and Helen Evans edit the Politics and Prayer website. We read comments on this blog and also hear people complaining that “the Bishops should proclaim…” a Day of Prayer or March for Life or any number of semi-public events. Let us suggest that we don’t have to wait for a proclamation. We don’t have…
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Episcopal Assembly Responds: Remember the Victims of Abortion
It is good to see this public statement by the Episcopal Assembly released today. Hopefully it is the beginning of a unified Orthodox voice that can bring moral clarity to the larger culture. I wish the statement drew clearer distinctions but given Constantinople’s statement of moral equivocation and the moral confusion it reveals, it’s hard…