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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 Thu, 04 Mar 2010 03:28:24 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.3.3 https://www.aoiusa.org/more-to-the-ecumenical-patriarchs-recent-encyclical-than-meets-the-eye/ https://www.aoiusa.org/more-to-the-ecumenical-patriarchs-recent-encyclical-than-meets-the-eye/#comments Thu, 04 Mar 2010 03:07:07 +0000 https://www.aoiusa.org/?p=6016 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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As I mentioned last week, I recently became a columnist for Catholic Online. They just posted my latest piece. (They are fast. I submitted it just this afternoon.) ++++++++++++++++++++++++++ Last week Orthodox Ecumenical Patriarch Bartholomew released an encyclical castigating what he called Orthodox “fanatics” who object to Orthodox ecumenical involvement. The encyclical was well received […]]]> https://www.aoiusa.org/more-to-the-ecumenical-patriarchs-recent-encyclical-than-meets-the-eye/feed/ 35 https://www.aoiusa.org/odds-ends/ https://www.aoiusa.org/odds-ends/#comments Fri, 16 Oct 2009 18:41:30 +0000 https://www.aoiusa.org/?p=3972 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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— A new book claims that the “Greek mafia” controlled not only the drug trade in Tarpon Springs but the local Greek Orthodox Church, too. Some say the book is “a bunch of garbage.” — Church of Greece bishops are anxious about the new Socialist government’s plan to tax church property. Don’t forget about property […]]]> https://www.aoiusa.org/odds-ends/feed/ 5 https://www.aoiusa.org/ecumenicism-in-the-trenches/ https://www.aoiusa.org/ecumenicism-in-the-trenches/#comments Tue, 09 Jun 2009 15:49:58 +0000 https://www.aoiusa.org/?p=2474 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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Two National Rabbinic Groups Issue Religious Ban on Voting for Pro-Homosexual Agenda Politicians; Call on Pope and other Denominations to Follow Suit BROOKLYN, NY, May 27 /Christian Newswire/ — In light of recent developments in the ongoing push to legislate a Federal Hate Crimes Bill in Congress and same gender marriage legislation in New York […]]]> https://www.aoiusa.org/ecumenicism-in-the-trenches/feed/ 1 https://www.aoiusa.org/interview-with-bp-hilarion-of-vienna-and-austria/ https://www.aoiusa.org/interview-with-bp-hilarion-of-vienna-and-austria/#respond Sun, 02 Nov 2008 22:10:25 +0000 https://www.aoiusa.org/?p=295 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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Reflections on the American Orthodox experience by foreign leaders are often interesting. Sometimes they are even insightful. That’s what we see in the recent interview with Bp. Hilarion of Vienna and Austria conducted by Dr. Peter Bouteneff, Associate Professor of Dogmatic Theology at St. Vladimir’s Seminary in New York. Discussion ranged from the American jurisdictional […]]]> https://www.aoiusa.org/interview-with-bp-hilarion-of-vienna-and-austria/feed/ 0 https://www.aoiusa.org/ecumenism-the-moral-imperative-based-on-the-priestly-prayer-of-jesus/ https://www.aoiusa.org/ecumenism-the-moral-imperative-based-on-the-priestly-prayer-of-jesus/#comments Mon, 10 Mar 2008 17:08:54 +0000 https://www.aoiusa.org/2008/03/10/ecumenism-the-moral-imperative-based-on-the-priestly-prayer-of-jesus/ 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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Holy Father, keep them in thy name, which thou hast given me, that they may be one, even as we are one (John 17:11). In just a few short weeks most of the Eastern Churches (and Western Churches as well) will be reading this passage from St. John’s Gospel during Holy Week. Are we one, […]]]> https://www.aoiusa.org/ecumenism-the-moral-imperative-based-on-the-priestly-prayer-of-jesus/feed/ 6