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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, 13 Jul 2013 21:53:27 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.3.3 https://www.aoiusa.org/when-orthodox-bishops-spoke-boldly-clear-teaching-on-marriage-and-family/ https://www.aoiusa.org/when-orthodox-bishops-spoke-boldly-clear-teaching-on-marriage-and-family/#comments Sat, 13 Jul 2013 18:28:14 +0000 https://www.aoiusa.org/?p=12888 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: The Voice Blog | Chris Banescu The current societal moral collapse and the intensifying attacks on traditional marriage and the family were foreseen by previous generations of bishops of the Orthodox Church in America (OCA). Approximately 40 years ago, the Holy Synod of the OCA issued an Encyclical Letter on Marriage warning their flocks […]]]> https://www.aoiusa.org/when-orthodox-bishops-spoke-boldly-clear-teaching-on-marriage-and-family/feed/ 40 https://www.aoiusa.org/met-jonah-encyclical-on-homosexuality/ https://www.aoiusa.org/met-jonah-encyclical-on-homosexuality/#comments Sun, 31 Jul 2011 22:24:14 +0000 https://www.aoiusa.org/?p=10455 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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July 28, 201 Beloved Fathers, brothers and sisters in Christ, If we say we have fellowship with him while we walk in darkness, we lie and do not practice the truth. But if we walk in the light, as he is in the light, we have fellowship with one another, and the blood of Jesus […]]]> https://www.aoiusa.org/met-jonah-encyclical-on-homosexuality/feed/ 11 https://www.aoiusa.org/his-beatitude-metropolitan-jonah-addresses-the-faithful-of-the-archdiocese-of-washington/ https://www.aoiusa.org/his-beatitude-metropolitan-jonah-addresses-the-faithful-of-the-archdiocese-of-washington/#comments Mon, 28 Feb 2011 02:48:40 +0000 https://www.aoiusa.org/?p=9247 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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Talk given by Met. Jonah at St. Nicholas Cathedral (OCA) on Sunday, February 27, 2011. TRANSCRIPT Dearly Beloved in Christ, I greet you with the feast of the Last Judgment as we prepare ourselves for the Great and Holy Lenten Fast. It is with sadness today that I address you, not because of the content […]]]> https://www.aoiusa.org/his-beatitude-metropolitan-jonah-addresses-the-faithful-of-the-archdiocese-of-washington/feed/ 96 https://www.aoiusa.org/holy-synod-announces-changes/ https://www.aoiusa.org/holy-synod-announces-changes/#comments Sat, 26 Feb 2011 22:52:56 +0000 https://www.aoiusa.org/?p=9245 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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Posted on OCA.org 02/25 SYOSSET, NY [OCA] — From February 22-24, 2011, the Holy Synod of Bishops of the Orthodox Church in America participated in a retreat in Santa Fe, New Mexico. His Beatitude, Metropolitan JONAH led the hierarchs in a review of matters affecting the life of the Orthodox Church in America, including the […]]]> https://www.aoiusa.org/holy-synod-announces-changes/feed/ 8 https://www.aoiusa.org/ocanews-org-jonah-placed-on-leave-of-absence-by-synod/ https://www.aoiusa.org/ocanews-org-jonah-placed-on-leave-of-absence-by-synod/#comments Fri, 25 Feb 2011 18:17:14 +0000 https://www.aoiusa.org/?p=9239 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 report is from OCANews.org and recently posted. Obviously there is a significant degree of tension between Syosset (OCA headquarters) and Met. Jonah. I don’t know the ins and outs of the OCA, but it appears that this report, given the extensive detail, was probably prepared for publication before the suspension (the part beginning with […]]]> https://www.aoiusa.org/ocanews-org-jonah-placed-on-leave-of-absence-by-synod/feed/ 59 https://www.aoiusa.org/the-episcopal-assembly-the-oca-and-the-future-orthodox-church-of-the-usa/ https://www.aoiusa.org/the-episcopal-assembly-the-oca-and-the-future-orthodox-church-of-the-usa/#comments Tue, 19 Oct 2010 23:41:25 +0000 https://www.aoiusa.org/?p=8084 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 Fr. Thomas Hopko It’s not clear what is now happening for the establishment of an autocephalous Orthodox Church of the United States made up of the member churches of the former SCOBA. These are my questions: What concrete steps are now being taken to establish an autocephalous Orthodox Church of the United States that […]]]> https://www.aoiusa.org/the-episcopal-assembly-the-oca-and-the-future-orthodox-church-of-the-usa/feed/ 26 https://www.aoiusa.org/oca-released-strategic-plan-for-public-comment/ https://www.aoiusa.org/oca-released-strategic-plan-for-public-comment/#comments Sat, 17 Jul 2010 16:25:11 +0000 https://www.aoiusa.org/?p=7231 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: OCA Website SYOSSET, NY [OCA] — The “Working Draft of a Strategic Plan for the Orthodox Church in America,” prepared by the Strategic Planning Committee of the OCA’s Metropolitan Council, is now available on-line in PDF format on the OCA web site at www.oca.org/PDF/NEWS/2010/2010-0624-strategicplan-v4.6.pdf. The committee, which includes clergy and lay members representing a […]]]> https://www.aoiusa.org/oca-released-strategic-plan-for-public-comment/feed/ 30 https://www.aoiusa.org/the-bishops-are-coming-to-new-york-as-complex-diaspora-question-looms/ https://www.aoiusa.org/the-bishops-are-coming-to-new-york-as-complex-diaspora-question-looms/#comments Sat, 22 May 2010 01:09:14 +0000 https://www.aoiusa.org/?p=6728 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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Read closely. What are the greatest fears? The autocephaly of the OCA (wild card) and the Ligonier Council (precedent). The times are changing folks. The lumbering bureaucratic structures that have sublimated the nascent creativity and energy of American Orthodoxy under the weight Old World self-interest might be loosing their grip. There is more anxiety here […]]]> https://www.aoiusa.org/the-bishops-are-coming-to-new-york-as-complex-diaspora-question-looms/feed/ 82 https://www.aoiusa.org/abp-nathaniel-of-detroit-orthodoxy-in-north-america/ https://www.aoiusa.org/abp-nathaniel-of-detroit-orthodoxy-in-north-america/#comments Wed, 17 Mar 2010 02:35:30 +0000 https://www.aoiusa.org/?p=6114 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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Romanian Orthodox for Enquiry in America “The demands upon our Church’s life by an un-believing society do not allow for any further delay in this process.” Ligonier: Statement on the Church in North America, 1994 I. Three Autocephalous North American Churches. The Pan-Orthodox Pre-Council Commission determined that the Church on the North American Continent region […]]]> https://www.aoiusa.org/abp-nathaniel-of-detroit-orthodoxy-in-north-america/feed/ 5 https://www.aoiusa.org/looks-like-jonah-is-serious-about-cleaning-house/ https://www.aoiusa.org/looks-like-jonah-is-serious-about-cleaning-house/#comments Mon, 08 Mar 2010 19:31:38 +0000 https://www.aoiusa.org/?p=6043 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 don’t know the details of the conflict mentioned in the release below and don’t need to know. What is notable is the apology of a chief hierarch of the Church. Please, don’t post the details of the conflict. They will be deleted. Instead, be encouraged by Metropolitan Jonah’s frank apology. This is good leadership. […]]]> https://www.aoiusa.org/looks-like-jonah-is-serious-about-cleaning-house/feed/ 17 https://www.aoiusa.org/metropolitan-jonah-offers-condolences-to-coptic-pope-shenouda-after-christmas-eve-murders/ https://www.aoiusa.org/metropolitan-jonah-offers-condolences-to-coptic-pope-shenouda-after-christmas-eve-murders/#respond Fri, 15 Jan 2010 19:41:13 +0000 https://www.aoiusa.org/?p=5445 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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SYOSSET, NY [OCA] — As widely reported in the international media, six Coptic Orthodox Christians and a Muslim security guard died in a drive-by shooting in front of the Church of Saint John in Nag Hamadi, Egypt, after services on January 6, 2010, the eve of the Great Feast of the Nativity of Our Lord […]]]> https://www.aoiusa.org/metropolitan-jonah-offers-condolences-to-coptic-pope-shenouda-after-christmas-eve-murders/feed/ 0 https://www.aoiusa.org/fr-vladimir-berzonsky-archbishop-job-and-the-struggle-for-light/ https://www.aoiusa.org/fr-vladimir-berzonsky-archbishop-job-and-the-struggle-for-light/#comments Thu, 07 Jan 2010 16:54:22 +0000 https://www.aoiusa.org/?p=5387 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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More accolades about the courage of Abp. Job facing up to corruption in the Church. As an outsider looking in, it was clear that Abp. Job’s increasingly clear voice that the corruption in the OCA needed the disinfectant that only the light of transparency would allow started to break through when he mustered the courage […]]]> https://www.aoiusa.org/fr-vladimir-berzonsky-archbishop-job-and-the-struggle-for-light/feed/ 1