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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 Sat, 20 Oct 2012 21:58:08 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.3.3 https://www.aoiusa.org/agreement-reached-on-rebuilding-st-nicholas-in-new-york-city/ https://www.aoiusa.org/agreement-reached-on-rebuilding-st-nicholas-in-new-york-city/#comments Sat, 20 Oct 2012 21:51:50 +0000 https://www.aoiusa.org/?p=12287 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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St. Nicholas Greek Orthodox Church that was destroyed in the terrorist attack on 9/11 will be rebuilt. This is good. Archbishop Demetrios said that “when St. Nicholas Church is completed it will be a place of praying, a place of comfort, openness and reconciliation where the relatives of the almost three thousand victims of 9/11 […]]]> https://www.aoiusa.org/agreement-reached-on-rebuilding-st-nicholas-in-new-york-city/feed/ 1 https://www.aoiusa.org/james-taranto-common-sense-is-to-be-avoided-just-because-it-is-common/ https://www.aoiusa.org/james-taranto-common-sense-is-to-be-avoided-just-because-it-is-common/#comments Sat, 28 Aug 2010 16:50:25 +0000 https://www.aoiusa.org/?p=7592 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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James Taranto in Oikophobia: Why the liberal elite finds Americans revolting (from the Wall Street Journal, available for seven days only) discusses the cultural divide made evident by the Ground Zero Mosque debate and what it reveals about America’s self-appointed elites. Read Besieged liberals resort to their last refuge: the bigotry charge by Charles Krauthammer […]]]> https://www.aoiusa.org/james-taranto-common-sense-is-to-be-avoided-just-because-it-is-common/feed/ 2 https://www.aoiusa.org/george-patsourakos-get-holy-trinity-rebuilt/ https://www.aoiusa.org/george-patsourakos-get-holy-trinity-rebuilt/#comments Wed, 25 Aug 2010 21:50:33 +0000 https://www.aoiusa.org/?p=7553 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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“New York state and its Port Authority officials need to hang their heads in shame,” says George Patsourakos, on his blog Theology and Society. Patsourakos, a regular commentator on the AOI blog writes: The September 11, 2001 terrorist attacks at the World Trade Center — attacks by extremist Muslims — resulted in the deaths of […]]]> https://www.aoiusa.org/george-patsourakos-get-holy-trinity-rebuilt/feed/ 7 https://www.aoiusa.org/george-demos-governor-pataki-ground-zero-press-conference/ https://www.aoiusa.org/george-demos-governor-pataki-ground-zero-press-conference/#comments Tue, 24 Aug 2010 13:27:12 +0000 https://www.aoiusa.org/?p=7514 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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]]> https://www.aoiusa.org/george-demos-governor-pataki-ground-zero-press-conference/feed/ 1 https://www.aoiusa.org/former-gov-pataki-george-demos-we-must-rebuild-greek-orthodox-church-at-ground-zero-updated-%c2%bb/ https://www.aoiusa.org/former-gov-pataki-george-demos-we-must-rebuild-greek-orthodox-church-at-ground-zero-updated-%c2%bb/#comments Tue, 24 Aug 2010 01:07:22 +0000 https://www.aoiusa.org/?p=7499 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: New York Daily News By Celeste Katz (Many thanks to our Erik Badia for his help with this report:) Former Gov. George Pataki joined NY-1 congressional hopeful George Demos and clergy at the former site of the St. Nicholas Greek Orthodox Church in an attempt to get stalled negotiations between the Port Authority and […]]]> https://www.aoiusa.org/former-gov-pataki-george-demos-we-must-rebuild-greek-orthodox-church-at-ground-zero-updated-%c2%bb/feed/ 2 https://www.aoiusa.org/moral-myopia-at-ground-zero/ https://www.aoiusa.org/moral-myopia-at-ground-zero/#comments Fri, 20 Aug 2010 12:13:15 +0000 https://www.aoiusa.org/?p=7487 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: National Review Online By Charles Krauthammer Supporters of the mosque fail to see its true significance. It’s hard to be an Obama sycophant these days. Your hero delivers a Ramadan speech roundly supporting the building of a mosque and Islamic center at Ground Zero in New York. Your heart swells and you’re moved to […]]]> https://www.aoiusa.org/moral-myopia-at-ground-zero/feed/ 23 https://www.aoiusa.org/god-and-man-at-ground-zero/ https://www.aoiusa.org/god-and-man-at-ground-zero/#comments Thu, 19 Aug 2010 15:25:24 +0000 https://www.aoiusa.org/?p=7471 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: Hot Air By J.E. Dyer In which a bemused observer tries to make sense of man, religion, and the state Here’s my bottom-line problem with the concatenation of events and trends surrounding the Ground Zero mosque: I see privilege being accorded to Islam, as against situations in which the civil authorities have de-privileged Christianity […]]]> https://www.aoiusa.org/god-and-man-at-ground-zero/feed/ 7 https://www.aoiusa.org/why-no-support-for-ground-zero-church-from-giannoulias/ https://www.aoiusa.org/why-no-support-for-ground-zero-church-from-giannoulias/#comments Wed, 18 Aug 2010 22:46:11 +0000 https://www.aoiusa.org/?p=7457 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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Illinois Democratic Senate candidate Alexi Giannoulias made waves earlier this week when he announced his support for the Ground Zero Mosque. Giannoulias’s support for the mosque isn’t particularly surprising; he’s far behind his Republican opponent, Mark Kirk, in the money race and can’t afford to alienate the White House, or risk no more presidential fundraising trips.  […]]]> https://www.aoiusa.org/why-no-support-for-ground-zero-church-from-giannoulias/feed/ 16 https://www.aoiusa.org/krauthammer-no-to-mosque-at-ground-zero/ https://www.aoiusa.org/krauthammer-no-to-mosque-at-ground-zero/#comments Fri, 13 Aug 2010 14:11:35 +0000 https://www.aoiusa.org/?p=7417 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: National Review Online A place is made sacred by a widespread belief that it was visited by the miraculous or the transcendent (Lourdes, the Temple Mount), by the presence there once of great nobility and sacrifice (Gettysburg), or by the blood of martyrs and the indescribable suffering of the innocent (Auschwitz). When we speak […]]]> https://www.aoiusa.org/krauthammer-no-to-mosque-at-ground-zero/feed/ 19 https://www.aoiusa.org/ground-zero-is-american-holy-ground-no-mosque-near-ground-zero/ https://www.aoiusa.org/ground-zero-is-american-holy-ground-no-mosque-near-ground-zero/#comments Tue, 27 Jul 2010 05:37:47 +0000 https://www.aoiusa.org/?p=7286 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 my essay that appeared on Catholic Online today. Don’t Let Muslims Define 9-11 NAPLES (Catholic Online) – Muslims have it over secularists, but not Christians – at least the clear thinking ones anyway. The Muslim proposal to build a mosque two blocks from Ground Zero is not only an affront to all people […]]]> https://www.aoiusa.org/ground-zero-is-american-holy-ground-no-mosque-near-ground-zero/feed/ 55 https://www.aoiusa.org/no-mosque-at-ground-zero/ https://www.aoiusa.org/no-mosque-at-ground-zero/#comments Sat, 17 Jul 2010 17:00:28 +0000 https://www.aoiusa.org/?p=7247 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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Tough words, certainly politically incorrect, but true. Source: Jihad Watch. Pat Condell on Ground Zero mosque: “Is it possible to be astonished, but not surprised?”]]> https://www.aoiusa.org/no-mosque-at-ground-zero/feed/ 25 https://www.aoiusa.org/archbishop-demetrios-to-hold-memorial-service-at-ground-zero/ https://www.aoiusa.org/archbishop-demetrios-to-hold-memorial-service-at-ground-zero/#respond Wed, 09 Sep 2009 23:12:14 +0000 https://www.aoiusa.org/?p=3409 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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NEW YORK — His Eminence Archbishop Demetrios of America will hold a memorial service on Friday, September 11, at 2:30 p.m. at Ground Zero on the site of St. Nicholas Greek Orthodox Church, the only religious edifice destroyed in the 9/11 attacks. The location where the service will be held is near Gate 7, corner […]]]> https://www.aoiusa.org/archbishop-demetrios-to-hold-memorial-service-at-ground-zero/feed/ 0 https://www.aoiusa.org/rebuilding-at-ground-zero/ https://www.aoiusa.org/rebuilding-at-ground-zero/#respond Thu, 03 Jul 2008 11:29:05 +0000 https://www.aoiusa.org/?p=67 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 New York Times has a detailed story about the long-delayed rebuilding of St. Nicholas Greek Orthodox Church, crushed when the South Tower of the World Trade Center collapsed after the terrorist attack of Sept. 11, 2001. The Times reports that the rebuilding effort is “a microcosm of the seven-year, $16 billion, problem-plagued effort to […]]]> https://www.aoiusa.org/rebuilding-at-ground-zero/feed/ 0