Tag: Environment
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Ecumenical Patriarch Bartholomew at the White House
From the Greek Orthodox Archdiocese of America (Nov. 4, 2009): President Obama receives Ecumenical Patriarch Bartholomew in the Oval Office WASHINGTON – His All Holiness, Ecumenical Patriarch Bartholomew was received today at the White House in the Oval Office by President Barack Obama. This reciprocal visit to the one paid by President Obama earlier this…
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Ecumenical Patriarch Bartholomew at Georgetown
Address of His All Holiness Ecumenical Patriarch Bartholomew “A Changeless Faith for a Changing World” Center for American Progress and Georgetown University Gaston Hall of Georgetown University Washington, DC (November 3, 2009) Remarks as Prepared for Delivery ———— Thank you very much, Professor James J. O’Donnell, Provost of Georgetown University, and John Podesta, President of…
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Ecumenical Patriarch Bartholomew launches a think tank
From his speech today at the Brookings Institution, “Saving the Soul of the Planet”: … in addition to our international ecological symposia, the Orthodox Church has decided to establish a center for environment and peace. Hitherto, the Ecumenical Patriarchate has endeavored to raise regional and global awareness on the urgency of preserving the natural environment…
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The Patriarch, the Environment and the Enlightenment
His All Holiness, Ecumenical Patriarch Bartholomew recently published an op-ed piece in the Wall Street Journal (“Our Indivisible Environment,” 26 October 2009) in which he argues that “just as God is indivisible, so too is our global environment.” He asserts that as the “molecules of water that comprise the great North Atlantic are neither European…
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A Patriarch who ‘Generally Speaking, Respects Human Life’
By John Couretas Reading Andrew Estocin’s fine essay, “Constantinople’s Moral Oversight,” I was reminded once again of the long running institutional silence — a scandal really — from the Greek Orthodox Archdiocese on sanctity of life issues. But that attitude of indifference comes down from the top — the Phanar. Here is a direct quotation…