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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 Wed, 05 Oct 2011 02:40:53 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.3.3 https://www.aoiusa.org/a-russian-in-rome-video/ https://www.aoiusa.org/a-russian-in-rome-video/#respond Wed, 05 Oct 2011 02:40:01 +0000 https://www.aoiusa.org/?p=11026 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: Inside Vatican The end of state atheism in Russia in 1991 and the return to Christian faith in that country, at least in a modest way, in the years since — opinions on the extent of Russia’s religious renewal are sharply divided — seemed something impossible in the 1960s, 1970, 1980s… Pope John Paul […]]]> https://www.aoiusa.org/a-russian-in-rome-video/feed/ 0 https://www.aoiusa.org/human-events-the-unseen-riots-of-london-american-media-tries-very-hard-not-to-notice-a-world-capitol-in-flames/ https://www.aoiusa.org/human-events-the-unseen-riots-of-london-american-media-tries-very-hard-not-to-notice-a-world-capitol-in-flames/#comments Wed, 10 Aug 2011 23:07:16 +0000 https://www.aoiusa.org/?p=10679 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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This is what the collapse of the welfare state looks like. Source: Human Events For the past four days, the city of London has been in flames. The UK Telegraph reports over 20,000 calls to the police on a single night: Officials said all police cells in London were now full and that any new […]]]> https://www.aoiusa.org/human-events-the-unseen-riots-of-london-american-media-tries-very-hard-not-to-notice-a-world-capitol-in-flames/feed/ 3 https://www.aoiusa.org/met-hilarion-an-alliance-of-faith-orthodox-catholic-cooperation/ https://www.aoiusa.org/met-hilarion-an-alliance-of-faith-orthodox-catholic-cooperation/#comments Thu, 24 Mar 2011 19:10:18 +0000 https://www.aoiusa.org/?p=9606 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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Highlight: Our challenges “…are first and foremost the challenges of a godless world, which is equally hostile today to Orthodox believers and Catholics, the challenge of the aggressive Islamic movement, the challenge of moral corruption, family decay, the abandonment by many people in traditionally Christian countries of the traditional family structure, liberalism in theology and […]]]> https://www.aoiusa.org/met-hilarion-an-alliance-of-faith-orthodox-catholic-cooperation/feed/ 10 https://www.aoiusa.org/a-greek-orthodox-response-to-rabbi-david-rosen/ https://www.aoiusa.org/a-greek-orthodox-response-to-rabbi-david-rosen/#comments Mon, 17 Jan 2011 14:20:40 +0000 https://www.aoiusa.org/?p=8808 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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This article rebuts Jewish charges of anti-Semitism in the the Greek Orthodox Church after Greek Bishop blamed Jews for Greece’s financial collapse in public comments last month. I wish it went to an editor first (the story of Archbishop Damaskinos should have led the piece) but overall all it’s a serviceable editorial. Source: Greek America […]]]> https://www.aoiusa.org/a-greek-orthodox-response-to-rabbi-david-rosen/feed/ 23 https://www.aoiusa.org/bartholomew-i-we-will-continue-to-dialogue-with-the-pope-and-islam/ https://www.aoiusa.org/bartholomew-i-we-will-continue-to-dialogue-with-the-pope-and-islam/#comments Tue, 21 Dec 2010 15:23:39 +0000 https://www.aoiusa.org/?p=8505 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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HT: Byzantine TX. Source: Asia News Istanbul (AsiaNews) – On the eve of the holiday season, Bartholomew I delivered a major address before an highly qualified audience from the Orthodox world, defending the Ecumenical Patriarchate’s choice for inter-faith dialogue. “We will insist on dialogue, despite the criticism that we suffer,” he said. “There is, unfortunately, […]]]> https://www.aoiusa.org/bartholomew-i-we-will-continue-to-dialogue-with-the-pope-and-islam/feed/ 30 https://www.aoiusa.org/met-hilarion-patriarch%e2%80%99s-meeting-with-pope-getting-nearer/ https://www.aoiusa.org/met-hilarion-patriarch%e2%80%99s-meeting-with-pope-getting-nearer/#comments Mon, 29 Nov 2010 15:18:50 +0000 https://www.aoiusa.org/?p=8427 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: Orthodox Church Media Network November 26, 2010 Moscow, November 26, Interfax – The meeting between the Moscow Patriarch and the Pope is getting nearer each day, the Russian Orthodox Church said. “Each day brings us closer to this meeting between the Pope and Patriarch,” head of the Moscow Patriarchate Department for External Church Relations […]]]> https://www.aoiusa.org/met-hilarion-patriarch%e2%80%99s-meeting-with-pope-getting-nearer/feed/ 32 https://www.aoiusa.org/eastern-tradition-of-canon-law-links-catholic-orthodox-churches-pope-notes/ https://www.aoiusa.org/eastern-tradition-of-canon-law-links-catholic-orthodox-churches-pope-notes/#comments Tue, 12 Oct 2010 15:34:49 +0000 https://www.aoiusa.org/?p=7990 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’m not sure if the Pope is speaking of the Byzantine Rite Catholics or the Orthodox Churches here, but the admission of a distinctive tradition is good. Source: Catholic Culture The Eastern Catholic churches should protect and maintain their own distinctive traditions, Pope Benedict XVI said on October 9 during an audience with participants in […]]]> https://www.aoiusa.org/eastern-tradition-of-canon-law-links-catholic-orthodox-churches-pope-notes/feed/ 2 https://www.aoiusa.org/moscow-patriarchate-freezes-ecumenical-journey-pope-never-commanded-in-the-east/ https://www.aoiusa.org/moscow-patriarchate-freezes-ecumenical-journey-pope-never-commanded-in-the-east/#comments Wed, 29 Sep 2010 14:30:07 +0000 https://www.aoiusa.org/?p=7777 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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More on the clarification from Moscow. Source: Asia News A statement from Metropolitan Hilarion, chairman of the Department for External Relations of the Patriarchate, challenges the very foundations of the recent meeting of the Mixed Commission between Catholics and Orthodox on the role of the bishop of Rome in the Church of the first millennium, […]]]> https://www.aoiusa.org/moscow-patriarchate-freezes-ecumenical-journey-pope-never-commanded-in-the-east/feed/ 4 https://www.aoiusa.org/metropolitan-hilarion-of-volokolamsk-allegations-about-a-%e2%80%98breakthrough%e2%80%99-in-orthodox-catholic-dialogue-are-untrue/ https://www.aoiusa.org/metropolitan-hilarion-of-volokolamsk-allegations-about-a-%e2%80%98breakthrough%e2%80%99-in-orthodox-catholic-dialogue-are-untrue/#respond Tue, 28 Sep 2010 19:04:18 +0000 https://www.aoiusa.org/?p=7747 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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See my notes in the post immediately preceding this one. Source: As has been stressed by the chairman of the Moscow Patriarchate’s department for external church relations, Metropolitan Hilarion of Volokolamsk, the working document of the Joint International Commission for Orthodox-Catholic Dialogue, publicized so widely by some media, does not reflect the attitude of the […]]]> https://www.aoiusa.org/metropolitan-hilarion-of-volokolamsk-allegations-about-a-%e2%80%98breakthrough%e2%80%99-in-orthodox-catholic-dialogue-are-untrue/feed/ 0 https://www.aoiusa.org/met-hilarions-speech-at-the-nicean-club-dinner-full-version/ https://www.aoiusa.org/met-hilarions-speech-at-the-nicean-club-dinner-full-version/#comments Tue, 14 Sep 2010 14:43:24 +0000 https://www.aoiusa.org/?p=7702 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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Address by Metropolitan Hilarion of Volokolamsk Chairman of the Moscow Patriarchate’s Department for External Church Relations to the Annual Nicean Club Dinner (Lambeth Palace, 9 September 2010) Speech removed until a corrected version arrives. I was informed that the speech by Met. Hilarion that I posted contains some (mostly minor) errors. Since I want to […]]]> https://www.aoiusa.org/met-hilarions-speech-at-the-nicean-club-dinner-full-version/feed/ 11 https://www.aoiusa.org/dr-peter-bouteneff-speaking-the-truth-in-love/ https://www.aoiusa.org/dr-peter-bouteneff-speaking-the-truth-in-love/#comments Mon, 30 Aug 2010 23:14:08 +0000 https://www.aoiusa.org/?p=7603 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 faculty of St. Vladimir’s website will be posting occasional essays on topics of current events. In this essay, Dr. Peter Bouteneff, Associate Professor of Systematic Theology, discusses ecumenical dialogue, particularly how different contexts and settings shape how discussion occurs. Dr. Bouteneff is a reader of the AOI blog and an occasional contributor. Source: St. […]]]> https://www.aoiusa.org/dr-peter-bouteneff-speaking-the-truth-in-love/feed/ 12 https://www.aoiusa.org/progressive-christianity%e2%80%99s-habit-of-%e2%80%98embracing-the-tormenters%e2%80%99/ https://www.aoiusa.org/progressive-christianity%e2%80%99s-habit-of-%e2%80%98embracing-the-tormenters%e2%80%99/#respond Wed, 26 May 2010 15:52:55 +0000 https://www.aoiusa.org/?p=6783 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 Institute on Religion & Democracy’s Faith McDonnell: Conducting “truth commissions” to denounce American armed forces and organizing divestment campaigns to cripple Israel are vital issues to some American church officials. Raising the banner of Intifada and expressing solidarity with Palestinians are also very important to this collection of liberal leaders. They “spiritualize” the Democratic […]]]> https://www.aoiusa.org/progressive-christianity%e2%80%99s-habit-of-%e2%80%98embracing-the-tormenters%e2%80%99/feed/ 0 https://www.aoiusa.org/a-holy-alliance-between-rome-and-moscow-is-born/ https://www.aoiusa.org/a-holy-alliance-between-rome-and-moscow-is-born/#comments Mon, 24 May 2010 19:24:00 +0000 https://www.aoiusa.org/?p=6756 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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Again, almost incomprehensible just a few short years ago. Highlight: “The common objective: the “new evangelization” of Europe. A delegation of the Russian Orthodox Church visits the Vatican, which publishes an anthology of the patriarch’s writings. A meeting between Kirill and Benedict XVI keeps getting closer.” by Sandro Magister Chiesa Espresso ROME, May 24, 2010 […]]]> https://www.aoiusa.org/a-holy-alliance-between-rome-and-moscow-is-born/feed/ 9 https://www.aoiusa.org/6752/ https://www.aoiusa.org/6752/#respond Mon, 24 May 2010 16:37:36 +0000 https://www.aoiusa.org/?p=6752 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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Pope John-Paul II, long before the fall of Communism said that the spiritual renewal of Western Europe would come from Russia. These were prophetic words as it turns out, but at the time many culture watchers thought they were the idealistic ramblings of a dreamer. Who would have thought just a few short decades ago […]]]> https://www.aoiusa.org/6752/feed/ 0 https://www.aoiusa.org/faith-to-faith-russian-patriarch-ending-landmark-armenia-visit/ https://www.aoiusa.org/faith-to-faith-russian-patriarch-ending-landmark-armenia-visit/#comments Thu, 18 Mar 2010 14:43:53 +0000 https://www.aoiusa.org/?p=6128 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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ArmeniaNow.com Patriarch of Moscow and All Russia Kirill is completing today his three-day visit to Armenia during which he and his Armenian counterpart accentuated the strong bonds between the two churches and peoples. As part of the visit staged at the invitation of the Catholicos of All Armenians, the leader of the Russian Orthodox Church […]]]> https://www.aoiusa.org/faith-to-faith-russian-patriarch-ending-landmark-armenia-visit/feed/ 2