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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 Fri, 23 Aug 2013 04:13:31 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.3.3 https://www.aoiusa.org/metropolitan-hilarion-believes-that-western-countries-tend-to-dictatorship/ https://www.aoiusa.org/metropolitan-hilarion-believes-that-western-countries-tend-to-dictatorship/#comments Fri, 23 Aug 2013 04:01:38 +0000 https://www.aoiusa.org/?p=12981 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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Secularization disguised as democratization released a colossal energy of subordination to power in the European states. Met. Hilarion below affirms a thesis I developed in the essay “Homosexual Marriage at the Dusk of Liberty” where I argue that the legal codification of homosexual “marriage” effectively establishes the State as both the source and judge of […]]]> https://www.aoiusa.org/metropolitan-hilarion-believes-that-western-countries-tend-to-dictatorship/feed/ 22 https://www.aoiusa.org/met-hilarion-of-volokolamsk-church-and-state-in-russia/ https://www.aoiusa.org/met-hilarion-of-volokolamsk-church-and-state-in-russia/#comments Mon, 01 Jul 2013 00:09:59 +0000 https://www.aoiusa.org/?p=12833 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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Met. Hilarion of Volokolamsk is the Chairman of the of the Department for External Church Relations Moscow Patriarchate. Key quote: “We remain strongly convinced that the secular nature of the state does not presuppose the ousting of the Church from the public space or her marginalization and placement in a “ghetto”. The Russian Orthodox Church […]]]> https://www.aoiusa.org/met-hilarion-of-volokolamsk-church-and-state-in-russia/feed/ 9 https://www.aoiusa.org/russian-orthodox-bishop-syrian-christians-facing-extermination/ https://www.aoiusa.org/russian-orthodox-bishop-syrian-christians-facing-extermination/#comments Sat, 03 Nov 2012 00:40:18 +0000 https://www.aoiusa.org/?p=12338 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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Over at the Acton Institute blog, John Couretas writes about his recent interview with Russian Orthodox Metropolitan Hilarion of Volokolamsk, chairman of the Moscow Patriarchate’s Department for External Church Relations, about increasing Christian persecution around the world. One focus was the mid-east where the Western “Arab Spring” policy has in fact unleashed a torrent of […]]]> https://www.aoiusa.org/russian-orthodox-bishop-syrian-christians-facing-extermination/feed/ 10 https://www.aoiusa.org/european-civilization-from-the-edict-of-milan-to-christianophobia/ https://www.aoiusa.org/european-civilization-from-the-edict-of-milan-to-christianophobia/#comments Mon, 08 Oct 2012 15:04:06 +0000 https://www.aoiusa.org/?p=12265 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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On October 2, 2012, the DECR chairman spoke at the opening of an international reflection-action conference on ‘Spiritual Feat of Sts Constantine and Helen Equal-to-the-Apostles – the Beginning and Triumph of Christendom in Human History’, which took place at the Russian Academy of Sciences. Dear Participants and Guests of the Conference, Allow me to greet […]]]> https://www.aoiusa.org/european-civilization-from-the-edict-of-milan-to-christianophobia/feed/ 7 https://www.aoiusa.org/interview-with-met-hilarion-on-unity-and-primacy-in-the-orthodox-church-audio/ https://www.aoiusa.org/interview-with-met-hilarion-on-unity-and-primacy-in-the-orthodox-church-audio/#comments Wed, 05 Oct 2011 17:28:43 +0000 https://www.aoiusa.org/?p=11040 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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I published the article below earlier, but after listening to the recording of the interview, there’s a lot more to report. The planning for a Pan-Orthodox Council continues, and one of the benefits is that thorny issues raised in the past such as the granting of autocephaly, the role of the Patriarch of Constantinople in […]]]> https://www.aoiusa.org/interview-with-met-hilarion-on-unity-and-primacy-in-the-orthodox-church-audio/feed/ 2 https://www.aoiusa.org/a-russian-in-rome-video/ https://www.aoiusa.org/a-russian-in-rome-video/#respond Wed, 05 Oct 2011 02:40:01 +0000 https://www.aoiusa.org/?p=11026 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: Inside Vatican The end of state atheism in Russia in 1991 and the return to Christian faith in that country, at least in a modest way, in the years since — opinions on the extent of Russia’s religious renewal are sharply divided — seemed something impossible in the 1960s, 1970, 1980s… Pope John Paul […]]]> https://www.aoiusa.org/a-russian-in-rome-video/feed/ 0 https://www.aoiusa.org/met-hilarion-the-problem-of-religious-intolerance-what-can-we-do-together/ https://www.aoiusa.org/met-hilarion-the-problem-of-religious-intolerance-what-can-we-do-together/#comments Sat, 04 Jun 2011 16:11:39 +0000 https://www.aoiusa.org/?p=10096 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: Department for External Church Relations of the Russian Orthodox Church Highlight: At present we are experiencing a new era of persecution against Christians, which some compare to the time of the Roman emperors of the first three centuries. People in problem-free countries know nothing or do not want to know anything about it. Only […]]]> https://www.aoiusa.org/met-hilarion-the-problem-of-religious-intolerance-what-can-we-do-together/feed/ 2 https://www.aoiusa.org/russian-orthodox-leader-stands-for-principle/ https://www.aoiusa.org/russian-orthodox-leader-stands-for-principle/#comments Mon, 21 Feb 2011 04:09:06 +0000 https://www.aoiusa.org/?p=9199 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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Here we see it unfolding. Orthodox Christianity has much to give the world, and it begins with the Gospel of Jesus Christ, and a vigorous defense of biblical teaching through the wisdom and experience of our Orthodox tradition. And the teachings must be clear on the foundational issues that determine whether a culture and people […]]]> https://www.aoiusa.org/russian-orthodox-leader-stands-for-principle/feed/ 11 https://www.aoiusa.org/met-hilarion-alfeyev-music-and-faith-in-my-life-and-vision/ https://www.aoiusa.org/met-hilarion-alfeyev-music-and-faith-in-my-life-and-vision/#comments Sun, 13 Feb 2011 19:19:46 +0000 https://www.aoiusa.org/?p=9148 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: Catholic University of America Talk given February 9, 2011 at Catholic University of America in Washington, D.C. Mr. President, esteemed members of the Academic Senate, professors, teachers, students, dear friends! First of all, permit me to express my profound gratitude for this invitation. It is a great honour for me to be within the […]]]> https://www.aoiusa.org/met-hilarion-alfeyev-music-and-faith-in-my-life-and-vision/feed/ 1 https://www.aoiusa.org/met-hilarion-unbelief-is-spiritual-blindness/ https://www.aoiusa.org/met-hilarion-unbelief-is-spiritual-blindness/#comments Mon, 31 Jan 2011 12:57:20 +0000 https://www.aoiusa.org/?p=8994 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: Russian Orthodox Church, Department of External Church Relations Dear Brothers and Sisters, today we heard during the Gospel Reading the story of how the Lord Jesus Christ healed a blind man who was sitting at roadside, asking for salvation and healing. The Lord said to him, Go, your faith has healed you (Mk. 10:51-52). […]]]> https://www.aoiusa.org/met-hilarion-unbelief-is-spiritual-blindness/feed/ 1 https://www.aoiusa.org/metropolitan-hilarion-of-volokolamsk-allegations-about-a-%e2%80%98breakthrough%e2%80%99-in-orthodox-catholic-dialogue-are-untrue/ https://www.aoiusa.org/metropolitan-hilarion-of-volokolamsk-allegations-about-a-%e2%80%98breakthrough%e2%80%99-in-orthodox-catholic-dialogue-are-untrue/#respond Tue, 28 Sep 2010 19:04:18 +0000 https://www.aoiusa.org/?p=7747 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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See my notes in the post immediately preceding this one. Source: As has been stressed by the chairman of the Moscow Patriarchate’s department for external church relations, Metropolitan Hilarion of Volokolamsk, the working document of the Joint International Commission for Orthodox-Catholic Dialogue, publicized so widely by some media, does not reflect the attitude of the […]]]> https://www.aoiusa.org/metropolitan-hilarion-of-volokolamsk-allegations-about-a-%e2%80%98breakthrough%e2%80%99-in-orthodox-catholic-dialogue-are-untrue/feed/ 0 https://www.aoiusa.org/catholics-and-orthodox-report-promising-progress-in-latest-round-of-unity-talks/ https://www.aoiusa.org/catholics-and-orthodox-report-promising-progress-in-latest-round-of-unity-talks/#comments Tue, 28 Sep 2010 18:51:14 +0000 https://www.aoiusa.org/?p=7742 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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I was going to post the release below a few days ago but decided against because, well, it had that ring of Constantinopolitan triumphalism to it. I’m jaded by Constantinople’s global warming initiative where the full moral force of the Constantinopolitan Patriarchate (as well as the complete administrative resources of the Greek Orthodox Archdiocese) was […]]]> https://www.aoiusa.org/catholics-and-orthodox-report-promising-progress-in-latest-round-of-unity-talks/feed/ 16 https://www.aoiusa.org/6752/ https://www.aoiusa.org/6752/#respond Mon, 24 May 2010 16:37:36 +0000 https://www.aoiusa.org/?p=6752 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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Pope John-Paul II, long before the fall of Communism said that the spiritual renewal of Western Europe would come from Russia. These were prophetic words as it turns out, but at the time many culture watchers thought they were the idealistic ramblings of a dreamer. Who would have thought just a few short decades ago […]]]> https://www.aoiusa.org/6752/feed/ 0 https://www.aoiusa.org/the-passions-in-orthodox-perception-are-deeply-imbued-with-the-theme-of-the-resurrection-and-radiant-paschal-joy/ https://www.aoiusa.org/the-passions-in-orthodox-perception-are-deeply-imbued-with-the-theme-of-the-resurrection-and-radiant-paschal-joy/#respond Mon, 05 Apr 2010 14:19:29 +0000 https://www.aoiusa.org/?p=6256 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 a good interview in its own right. Note that the title attributed to Constantinople is “First Bishop of the Orthodox Church.” Note too the overall sobriety in Met. Hilarion’s tone. Metropolitan Hilarion’s interview to the Romfea.gr church news portal. – Your Eminence, I would like to begin with a question about your oratorio […]]]> https://www.aoiusa.org/the-passions-in-orthodox-perception-are-deeply-imbued-with-the-theme-of-the-resurrection-and-radiant-paschal-joy/feed/ 0 https://www.aoiusa.org/abp-hilarion-elevated-to-metropolitan/ https://www.aoiusa.org/abp-hilarion-elevated-to-metropolitan/#comments Tue, 02 Feb 2010 10:45:02 +0000 https://www.aoiusa.org/?p=5776 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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Archbishop Hilarion, an emerging and clear voice in world Orthodoxy was elevated to Metropolitan in Russia recently. See pictures here.]]> https://www.aoiusa.org/abp-hilarion-elevated-to-metropolitan/feed/ 1