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https://www.aoiusa.org A Research and Educational Organization that engages the cultural issues of the day within the Orthodox Christian Tradition Tue, 14 Sep 2010 01:41:01 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.3.3 https://www.aoiusa.org/russian-metropolitan-blasts-anglican-communions-sexual-innovations/ https://www.aoiusa.org/russian-metropolitan-blasts-anglican-communions-sexual-innovations/#comments Tue, 14 Sep 2010 01:37:26 +0000 https://www.aoiusa.org/?p=7689 Deprecated: trim(): Passing null to parameter #1 ($string) of type string is deprecated in /home/aoiusa/public_html/wp-content/plugins/sexybookmarks/public.php on line 388

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Hilarion praises Global South stand on marriage. Absence of heresy deplored. Our Church must sever its relations with those churches and communities that trample on the principles of Christian ethics and traditional morals. Here we uphold a firm stand based on Holy Scripture. By David W. Virtue www.virtueonline.org Sept. 13, 2010 In a groundbreaking address […]]]> https://www.aoiusa.org/russian-metropolitan-blasts-anglican-communions-sexual-innovations/feed/ 9 https://www.aoiusa.org/the-decr-chairman-%e2%80%9cwe-vigorously-oppose-atheism-perceived-as-a-%e2%80%98common-denominator%e2%80%99-of-all-religions%e2%80%9d/ https://www.aoiusa.org/the-decr-chairman-%e2%80%9cwe-vigorously-oppose-atheism-perceived-as-a-%e2%80%98common-denominator%e2%80%99-of-all-religions%e2%80%9d/#respond Mon, 25 Jan 2010 20:30:02 +0000 https://www.aoiusa.org/?p=5650 Deprecated: trim(): Passing null to parameter #1 ($string) of type string is deprecated in /home/aoiusa/public_html/wp-content/plugins/sexybookmarks/public.php on line 388

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We vigorously oppose atheism perceived as a ‘common denominator’ of all religions, as secular politicians sometimes try to present it, saying, ‘There are differences among religions; therefore, let us proceed from atheistic prerequisites so that no religion feels offended.’ This position is absolutely false and unacceptable to us. We state that traditional religions have much […]]]> https://www.aoiusa.org/the-decr-chairman-%e2%80%9cwe-vigorously-oppose-atheism-perceived-as-a-%e2%80%98common-denominator%e2%80%99-of-all-religions%e2%80%9d/feed/ 0 https://www.aoiusa.org/archbishop-hilarions-interview-with-der-spiegel/ https://www.aoiusa.org/archbishop-hilarions-interview-with-der-spiegel/#comments Wed, 16 Dec 2009 22:34:09 +0000 https://www.aoiusa.org/?p=5141 Deprecated: trim(): Passing null to parameter #1 ($string) of type string is deprecated in /home/aoiusa/public_html/wp-content/plugins/sexybookmarks/public.php on line 388

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Source: Moscow Patriarchate Archbishop Hilarion of Volokolamsk, chairman of the Moscow Patriarchate department for external church relations, answered questions from Der Spiegel magazine. Below is the text of the talk His Eminence Hilarion had with the magazine’s correspondents. The interview was published in Der Spiegel’s issue No. 51, 2009. (This transcript is the source of […]]]> https://www.aoiusa.org/archbishop-hilarions-interview-with-der-spiegel/feed/ 3 https://www.aoiusa.org/moscow-thanks-pope-for-not-pressing-on-meeting/ https://www.aoiusa.org/moscow-thanks-pope-for-not-pressing-on-meeting/#comments Wed, 16 Dec 2009 22:20:58 +0000 https://www.aoiusa.org/?p=5137 Deprecated: trim(): Passing null to parameter #1 ($string) of type string is deprecated in /home/aoiusa/public_html/wp-content/plugins/sexybookmarks/public.php on line 388

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From Interfax (2009-12-16): Moscow — The Moscow Patriarchate is grateful to Pope Benedict XVI for understanding problems between the two Churches and not pressing on with visiting Russia and meeting with the Patriarch. “Pope Benedict XVI perfectly understands the existing difficulties and therefore is not pressing on his meeting with the Patriarch, not to mention […]]]> https://www.aoiusa.org/moscow-thanks-pope-for-not-pressing-on-meeting/feed/ 2 https://www.aoiusa.org/europe-spiritual-homeland/ https://www.aoiusa.org/europe-spiritual-homeland/#comments Sun, 13 Dec 2009 04:32:05 +0000 https://www.aoiusa.org/?p=5070 Deprecated: trim(): Passing null to parameter #1 ($string) of type string is deprecated in /home/aoiusa/public_html/wp-content/plugins/sexybookmarks/public.php on line 388

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In “For Rome and Moscow, It’s Spring Again,” Sandro Magister on Chiesa looks at the book, in Italian and Russian, presented to Pope Benedict recently by Archbishop Hilarion of Volokolamsk. It is a collection of the main speeches of Benedict, as cardinal and pope, on European culture made over the past ten years. The title […]]]> https://www.aoiusa.org/europe-spiritual-homeland/feed/ 13 https://www.aoiusa.org/archbishop-hilarion-responds-to-u-s-state-dept-report-on-religious-freedom/ https://www.aoiusa.org/archbishop-hilarion-responds-to-u-s-state-dept-report-on-religious-freedom/#comments Thu, 03 Dec 2009 16:36:21 +0000 https://www.aoiusa.org/?p=4950 Deprecated: trim(): Passing null to parameter #1 ($string) of type string is deprecated in /home/aoiusa/public_html/wp-content/plugins/sexybookmarks/public.php on line 388

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In late October, the State Department released the 2009 Report on International Religious Freedom, a study annually submitted to Congress. Remarks on the study by Michael H. Posner, Assistant Secretary, Bureau of Democracy, Human Rights, and Labor, are available here. (The country report for Turkey is available here.) The Russian foreign ministry said, on publication […]]]> https://www.aoiusa.org/archbishop-hilarion-responds-to-u-s-state-dept-report-on-religious-freedom/feed/ 14 https://www.aoiusa.org/russian-orthodox-launch-the-st-gregory-nazianzus-foundation/ https://www.aoiusa.org/russian-orthodox-launch-the-st-gregory-nazianzus-foundation/#comments Sun, 15 Nov 2009 00:18:08 +0000 https://www.aoiusa.org/?p=4600 Deprecated: trim(): Passing null to parameter #1 ($string) of type string is deprecated in /home/aoiusa/public_html/wp-content/plugins/sexybookmarks/public.php on line 388

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Robert Moynihan, editor of the Inside the Vatican newsletter, is in Moscow visiting with Archbishop Hilarion of Volokolamsk and other church people. He reports that “the Russian Orthodox have now decided to engage with Catholics, and others, in a collaboration which can be compared to an actual alliance against the great social evils of our […]]]> https://www.aoiusa.org/russian-orthodox-launch-the-st-gregory-nazianzus-foundation/feed/ 7 https://www.aoiusa.org/archbishop-hilarion-on-orthodox-catholic-relations/ https://www.aoiusa.org/archbishop-hilarion-on-orthodox-catholic-relations/#respond Sat, 14 Nov 2009 16:09:28 +0000 https://www.aoiusa.org/?p=4588 Deprecated: trim(): Passing null to parameter #1 ($string) of type string is deprecated in /home/aoiusa/public_html/wp-content/plugins/sexybookmarks/public.php on line 388

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From the Moscow Patriarchate, Nov. 12, 2009: During his meeting with foreign media people on 11 November 2009, Archbishop Hilarion spoke on burning issues of inter-Christian relations. He said in particular that considerable improvements took shape in relations with the Roman Catholic Church in recent years. ‘There is a regular mechanism of mutual consultations and […]]]> https://www.aoiusa.org/archbishop-hilarion-on-orthodox-catholic-relations/feed/ 0 https://www.aoiusa.org/archbishop-hilarion-on-social-problems/ https://www.aoiusa.org/archbishop-hilarion-on-social-problems/#comments Sat, 14 Nov 2009 16:06:05 +0000 https://www.aoiusa.org/?p=4583 Deprecated: trim(): Passing null to parameter #1 ($string) of type string is deprecated in /home/aoiusa/public_html/wp-content/plugins/sexybookmarks/public.php on line 388

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From the Moscow Patriarchate, Nov. 12, 2009: During his meeting with foreign journalists on 11 November 2009, Archbishop Hilarion of Volokolamsk answered questions concerning urgent problems of society today. Asked about the Church’s view of some problems of bioethics, especially the use of artificial life-support systems to prolong the life of a patient, he said, […]]]> https://www.aoiusa.org/archbishop-hilarion-on-social-problems/feed/ 8 https://www.aoiusa.org/ecumenical-patriarch-bartholomew-at-fordham/ https://www.aoiusa.org/ecumenical-patriarch-bartholomew-at-fordham/#comments Thu, 29 Oct 2009 21:28:30 +0000 https://www.aoiusa.org/?p=4253 Deprecated: trim(): Passing null to parameter #1 ($string) of type string is deprecated in /home/aoiusa/public_html/wp-content/plugins/sexybookmarks/public.php on line 388

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(sigh) Ecumenical Patriarch Bartholomew was at Fordham University in New York to receive an award yesterday and give a speech. A number of things jump out. First, a recap. In his post, “The Patriarch, the Enlightenment, and the Environment,” here on the Observer, Fr. Gregory Jensen reminds us that the human heart needs communion with […]]]> https://www.aoiusa.org/ecumenical-patriarch-bartholomew-at-fordham/feed/ 1 https://www.aoiusa.org/hilarion-and-chrysostomos-meet-on-cyprus-issues/ https://www.aoiusa.org/hilarion-and-chrysostomos-meet-on-cyprus-issues/#comments Fri, 23 Oct 2009 17:04:13 +0000 https://www.aoiusa.org/?p=4120 Deprecated: trim(): Passing null to parameter #1 ($string) of type string is deprecated in /home/aoiusa/public_html/wp-content/plugins/sexybookmarks/public.php on line 388

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The Russian Orthodox influence in the Mediterranean grows. Source: Moscow Patriarchate. On 22 October 2009, the Chairman of the Moscow Patriarchate Department Archbishop Hilarion of Volokolamsk met with His Beatitude Archbishop Chrysostomos II of Nea Justiniana and All Cyprus. Taking part in the meeting that took place in Paphos, Cyprus, was Metropolitan Isaiah (Kykkotis) of […]]]> https://www.aoiusa.org/hilarion-and-chrysostomos-meet-on-cyprus-issues/feed/ 4 https://www.aoiusa.org/catholic-orthodox-dialogue-off-to-rocky-start-on-cyprus/ https://www.aoiusa.org/catholic-orthodox-dialogue-off-to-rocky-start-on-cyprus/#comments Mon, 19 Oct 2009 17:12:27 +0000 https://www.aoiusa.org/?p=4001 Deprecated: trim(): Passing null to parameter #1 ($string) of type string is deprecated in /home/aoiusa/public_html/wp-content/plugins/sexybookmarks/public.php on line 388

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.From the Sunday Mail (Cyprus): Members of Orthodox Christian unions along with clerics and monks yesterday disrupted a Paphos conference between Orthodox and Catholic Christians. The unions, monks from Stavrovouni monastery and Larnaca clerics were protesting against the conference and demanding that Archbichop Chrysostomos II cancel it. It was day one of the conference of […]]]> https://www.aoiusa.org/catholic-orthodox-dialogue-off-to-rocky-start-on-cyprus/feed/ 27 https://www.aoiusa.org/the-primacy-problem-catholic-and-orthodox/ https://www.aoiusa.org/the-primacy-problem-catholic-and-orthodox/#comments Thu, 15 Oct 2009 02:11:46 +0000 https://www.aoiusa.org/?p=3960 Deprecated: trim(): Passing null to parameter #1 ($string) of type string is deprecated in /home/aoiusa/public_html/wp-content/plugins/sexybookmarks/public.php on line 388

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In an interview with the National Catholic Register’s Edward Pentin, Archbishop Hilarion of Volokolamsk talks about his first official visit to Rome in September as chairman of the Moscow Patriarchate’s Department for External Church Affairs. He offers a caution about any Catholic-Orthodox union, something that media reports and at least one Catholic bishop said was […]]]> https://www.aoiusa.org/the-primacy-problem-catholic-and-orthodox/feed/ 3 https://www.aoiusa.org/stalin-russianness-and-orthodoxy/ https://www.aoiusa.org/stalin-russianness-and-orthodoxy/#comments Fri, 09 Oct 2009 13:36:52 +0000 https://www.aoiusa.org/?p=3834 Deprecated: trim(): Passing null to parameter #1 ($string) of type string is deprecated in /home/aoiusa/public_html/wp-content/plugins/sexybookmarks/public.php on line 388

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AsiaNews, the Roman Catholic news service, looks at how some elements in Russian society are working to rehabilitate Stalin’s reputation and sees the Russian Orthodox Church “co-opted” into this process. The makeover of Stalin’s image and the Soviet Era go together with an attempt by Russian rulers to restore the country’s cultural identity, an impossible […]]]> https://www.aoiusa.org/stalin-russianness-and-orthodoxy/feed/ 7 https://www.aoiusa.org/archbishop-hilarion-be-like-christ/ https://www.aoiusa.org/archbishop-hilarion-be-like-christ/#comments Wed, 07 Oct 2009 19:34:51 +0000 https://www.aoiusa.org/?p=3789 Deprecated: trim(): Passing null to parameter #1 ($string) of type string is deprecated in /home/aoiusa/public_html/wp-content/plugins/sexybookmarks/public.php on line 388

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From an interview in the Russian publication Argumenty I Fakty, republished on the site of the Moscow Patriarchate. Worth reading in its entirety. Excerpts: Should the Church do something to attract young people? Should it seek a special approach to them? I believe that the search for real freedom is a worthy thing not only […]]]> https://www.aoiusa.org/archbishop-hilarion-be-like-christ/feed/ 1