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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 Sun, 24 Jun 2012 01:06:10 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.3.3 https://www.aoiusa.org/patriach-bartholomew-coddles-environmental-extremists/ https://www.aoiusa.org/patriach-bartholomew-coddles-environmental-extremists/#comments Sun, 24 Jun 2012 01:01:51 +0000 https://www.aoiusa.org/?p=11937 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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– Taking care of the environment involves more than clean air, clean water, recycling and the other factors that we usually associate with responsible stewardship. It also involves ideas about the economy, human relationships, structuring communities, the meaning and value of work, the value of the unborn and aged and so forth. Every environmental program […]]]> https://www.aoiusa.org/patriach-bartholomew-coddles-environmental-extremists/feed/ 21 https://www.aoiusa.org/christian-environmentalism-costs-nothing/ https://www.aoiusa.org/christian-environmentalism-costs-nothing/#comments Thu, 21 Jun 2012 22:48:10 +0000 https://www.aoiusa.org/?p=11924 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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By John Couretas In his June 18 keynote address at the opening ceremony of the Halki Summit in Turkey, Ecumenical Patriarch Bartholomew looked forward to the start of the Rio +20 United Nations Conference on Sustainability, June 20-22. He noted that attendees at his environmental gathering were “deeply frustrated with the stubborn resistance and reluctant […]]]> https://www.aoiusa.org/christian-environmentalism-costs-nothing/feed/ 27 https://www.aoiusa.org/how-do-we-explain-natural-disasters-like-earthquakes-and-tsunamis/ https://www.aoiusa.org/how-do-we-explain-natural-disasters-like-earthquakes-and-tsunamis/#comments Mon, 21 Mar 2011 00:13:51 +0000 https://www.aoiusa.org/?p=9563 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 essay below that Fr. David Hudson sent along is timely. I have a small parish now which means that after the Divine Liturgy we always have a discussion about any topic that people want to talk about. Today we had the question: How do we make sense of the tsunami in Japan? It wasn’t […]]]> https://www.aoiusa.org/how-do-we-explain-natural-disasters-like-earthquakes-and-tsunamis/feed/ 20 https://www.aoiusa.org/enviromentalism-as-religion-doesnt-the-ep-get-it/ https://www.aoiusa.org/enviromentalism-as-religion-doesnt-the-ep-get-it/#comments Fri, 22 Oct 2010 22:40:38 +0000 https://www.aoiusa.org/?p=8169 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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Do you want to understand why the Ecumenical Patriarch’s coddling of environmentalism is not only wrong-headed but dangerous? First read Environmentalism as Religion in the New Atlantis magazine. Then recall that His All Holiness threw the full moral weight of his office behind of the Geneva Protocols, a crown jewel of environmental activism, during the […]]]> https://www.aoiusa.org/enviromentalism-as-religion-doesnt-the-ep-get-it/feed/ 2 https://www.aoiusa.org/papal-environmentalism-pro-life-and-pro-marriage/ https://www.aoiusa.org/papal-environmentalism-pro-life-and-pro-marriage/#comments Sat, 20 Feb 2010 20:04:58 +0000 https://www.aoiusa.org/?p=5929 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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Ethics and Public Policy Center | George Weigel In his January 11 address to the diplomatic corps accredited to the Holy See, Pope Benedict XVI continued to carve out an interesting Catholic position on ecology. The Pope insists that care for creation is a moral obligation that falls on both individuals and governments. His very […]]]> https://www.aoiusa.org/papal-environmentalism-pro-life-and-pro-marriage/feed/ 2 https://www.aoiusa.org/response-to-the-patriarchal-address/ https://www.aoiusa.org/response-to-the-patriarchal-address/#comments Sat, 07 Nov 2009 19:06:40 +0000 https://www.aoiusa.org/?p=4468 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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While the Patriarchal address has much to commend it, the leveling of ideas it exhibits is troubling. The essay below was originally written as a comment, but I posting it here for comment and analysis. Frankly, the ideas in this speech are muddled. It sounds like it an American wrote it who has only a […]]]> https://www.aoiusa.org/response-to-the-patriarchal-address/feed/ 62 https://www.aoiusa.org/ecumenical-patriarch-releases-agenda-for-mississippi-symposium/ https://www.aoiusa.org/ecumenical-patriarch-releases-agenda-for-mississippi-symposium/#comments Sat, 27 Jun 2009 16:05:22 +0000 https://www.aoiusa.org/?p=2644 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 Greek Orthodox Archdiocese released the schedule for Ecumenical Patriarch Batholomew’s visit to the United States in October. Separately, a detailed agenda for his upcoming environmental symposium has been posted online. The patriarch’s “Symposium VIII — Restoring Balance: The Great Mississippi River” offers a rare opportunity to present Orthodoxy’s distinctive, sacramental understanding of the stewardship […]]]> https://www.aoiusa.org/ecumenical-patriarch-releases-agenda-for-mississippi-symposium/feed/ 28 https://www.aoiusa.org/patriarch-bartholomew-on-world-environment-day/ https://www.aoiusa.org/patriarch-bartholomew-on-world-environment-day/#comments Sat, 06 Jun 2009 13:44:54 +0000 https://www.aoiusa.org/?p=2437 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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Message from His All Holiness (June 5, 2009). The patriarch’s full text follows: Today’s World Environment Day is an opportunity as well as an invitation for all of us, irrespective of religious background, to consider the ecological crisis. In our time, more than ever before, there is an undeniable obligation for all to understand that […]]]> https://www.aoiusa.org/patriarch-bartholomew-on-world-environment-day/feed/ 19