Tag: Europe
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Russian Orthodox Church opens seminary in France
H/T: Byzantine, TX The Russian Orthodox Church has opened its first seminary outside the former Soviet Union – in a small French town outside Paris. The institution is starting modestly but has big ambitions: to serve Russia’s growing diaspora and foster closer ties between Eastern and Western Christian churches. It is a bitterly cold afternoon,…
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Thoughts from a great historian
A quote from Catholic historian Christopher Dawson (1889-1970) in “Religion and the Modern State” (1936): Religion gradually retreated into man’s inner life, and left social and economic life to the State and to a civilization which grew steadily more secularized. A man’s debt to religion was paid by an hour or two in church on…