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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 Mon, 11 Jul 2011 02:08:10 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.3.3 https://www.aoiusa.org/bp-nicholas-dimarzio-catholic-church-must-influence-marriage-debate/ https://www.aoiusa.org/bp-nicholas-dimarzio-catholic-church-must-influence-marriage-debate/#comments Sun, 10 Jul 2011 01:55:37 +0000 https://www.aoiusa.org/?p=10391 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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So far the only Orthodox bishops offering more than pro-forma defenses of the moral tradition are Met. Job and Bp. Michael of the OCA. Below is an example of how moral authority is rightly exercised. Roman Catholic Bp. Nicholas DiMarzio offers a very reasoned and accessible analysis and defense of the major points in the […]]]> https://www.aoiusa.org/bp-nicholas-dimarzio-catholic-church-must-influence-marriage-debate/feed/ 4 https://www.aoiusa.org/seal-of-confession-goes-on-trial/ https://www.aoiusa.org/seal-of-confession-goes-on-trial/#respond Mon, 21 Sep 2009 17:53:11 +0000 https://www.aoiusa.org/?p=3567 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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I only recently heard about this case where a confession being heard by priest in a federal prison was recorded by authorities. It raises the most fundamental legal questions about Church and State separation. Church and State Face Off in Court By Annamarie Adkins SALEM, Oregon, AUG. 26, 2009 (Zenit.org).- When Father Timothy Mockaitis heard […]]]> https://www.aoiusa.org/seal-of-confession-goes-on-trial/feed/ 0 https://www.aoiusa.org/bureaucratic-church-and-imperial-state/ https://www.aoiusa.org/bureaucratic-church-and-imperial-state/#comments Wed, 19 Aug 2009 19:14:48 +0000 https://www.aoiusa.org/?p=3212 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 response to comments here on this blog about whether the Byzantines will one day “save” the American Church, the answer to that, as has been observed, is that there are no Byzantines remaining to save us. What’s more, there would be little support among American Orthodox Christians for the sort of deep involvement by […]]]> https://www.aoiusa.org/bureaucratic-church-and-imperial-state/feed/ 36 https://www.aoiusa.org/medvedev-supports-religion-education-in-schools/ https://www.aoiusa.org/medvedev-supports-religion-education-in-schools/#comments Tue, 21 Jul 2009 17:31:38 +0000 https://www.aoiusa.org/?p=3012 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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Patriarch Kirill offers a caution. From RIA Novosti: BARVIKHA, July 21 — Russian President Dmitry Medvedev on Tuesday expressed his support for a proposal to teach religious education in Russian state schools. He also backed the suggestion that chaplains should be employed in Russia’s armed forces. “I decided to support both proposals,” the president said […]]]> https://www.aoiusa.org/medvedev-supports-religion-education-in-schools/feed/ 2 https://www.aoiusa.org/radio-free-europe-the-price-of-influence/ https://www.aoiusa.org/radio-free-europe-the-price-of-influence/#comments Wed, 15 Jul 2009 20:04:37 +0000 https://www.aoiusa.org/?p=2956 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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Writing on the RadioFreeEurope/RadioLiberty Power Vertical blog, Brian Whitmore suggests that there may be a little too much symphonia in a recent move by Russian Patriarch Kirill to work closely with the United Russia political party. Whitmore: What motivated United Russia and Patriarch Kirill I to reach an agreement giving the Russian Orthodox Church an […]]]> https://www.aoiusa.org/radio-free-europe-the-price-of-influence/feed/ 7 https://www.aoiusa.org/interview-a-mission-in-the-world/ https://www.aoiusa.org/interview-a-mission-in-the-world/#comments Mon, 06 Jul 2009 16:48:23 +0000 https://www.aoiusa.org/?p=2842 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 Department for External Church Relations of the Moscow Patriarchate distributed “A Mission in the World,” an interview of Archbishop Hilarion of Volokolamsk by Expert Magazine (Issue No. 23 (661) June 15, 2009). Expert Magazine Your Eminence, one hundred days have passed since the enthronement of Patriarch Kirill of Moscow and All Russia. What has […]]]> https://www.aoiusa.org/interview-a-mission-in-the-world/feed/ 2 https://www.aoiusa.org/fr-alexander-schmemann-on-primacy-in-the-orthodox-church/ https://www.aoiusa.org/fr-alexander-schmemann-on-primacy-in-the-orthodox-church/#respond Sat, 11 Apr 2009 12:49:28 +0000 https://www.aoiusa.org/?p=1615 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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Many of the current jurisdictional controversies within the Orthodox Church involving the Ecumenical Patriarch, relations between Constantinople and Moscow, the status of the “autocephalies” — even the future of the American Orthodox Church — hinge on the question of primacy. While Orthodox Christians have rejected the Roman model of primacy as “supreme power” over the […]]]> https://www.aoiusa.org/fr-alexander-schmemann-on-primacy-in-the-orthodox-church/feed/ 0 https://www.aoiusa.org/srdja-trifkovic-on-patriarch-aleksy/ https://www.aoiusa.org/srdja-trifkovic-on-patriarch-aleksy/#respond Wed, 18 Feb 2009 14:40:09 +0000 https://www.aoiusa.org/?p=1034 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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Cultural commentator Srdja Trifkovic writes on Patriarch Akeksy in the latest issue of Chronicles Magazine: Aleksy II, Patriarch of Moscow and head of the Russian Orthodox Church, died of heart failure on December 5, 2008, at the age of 79… Aleksy II came to the throne just as the Soviet state was beginning to disintegrate. […]]]> https://www.aoiusa.org/srdja-trifkovic-on-patriarch-aleksy/feed/ 0 https://www.aoiusa.org/invocation-prayer/ https://www.aoiusa.org/invocation-prayer/#comments Wed, 17 Sep 2008 19:00:47 +0000 https://www.aoiusa.org/?p=93 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 following prayer was offered by Fr. John A. Peck (see his Orthodox Church of Tomorrow below) at the Prescott (Ariz.) City Council meeting on Sept. 9. Fr. John is pastor of Prescott Orthodox Church, The “Mile High” Mission. Invocation Prayer O God, the God of principalities and powers, authorities and dominions, we ask You […]]]> https://www.aoiusa.org/invocation-prayer/feed/ 2