Tag: Orthodox Church
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CNS News: More than 2,000 Evangelical, Orthodox Chaplains Join Catholics in Opposing Pentagon Directive on Same-Sex Marriage
Here’s one way for the Orthodox to get noticed: do what is right. Source: CNSNews (CNSNews.com) – A national group representing more than 2,000 military chaplains from evangelical Christian and Orthodox backgrounds said on Wednesday that the Pentagon has launched a “direct assault” on marriage, and the chaplains they endorse will not be allowed to…
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Fr. Patrick Henry Reardon: Delegation to Syria
Source: Antiochian Archdiocese | Fr. Patrick Henry Reardon During this past September 13-18, I was part of a delegation sent to Syria by Metropolitan PHILIP to investigate the internal political situation in that country, particularly with respect to its Christian minority. Our group consisted of six priests of the Antiochian Archdiocese: Fathers Dimitri Darwich (our…
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La Stampa: Divisions in Orthodox Church Hinder Pope’s Meeting with Patriarch of Moscow
We are getting more news from the Catholic/Italian press than we are from Orthodox sources. This report appears reliable; the author has a good grasp of the ecclessiological disagreements between Constantinople and Moscow, particularly the conflict about what constitutes primacy in Orthodoxy. This question must be settled before a Pan-Orthodox Council can take place and…
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![Interview with Met. Hilarion on Unity and Primacy in the Orthodox Church [AUDIO]](https://www.aoiusa.org/wp-content/uploads/2010/03/hilarion-sitting.png)
Interview with Met. Hilarion on Unity and Primacy in the Orthodox Church [AUDIO]
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…
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![A Russian in Rome [VIDEO]](https://www.aoiusa.org/wp-content/uploads/2011/10/benedict-hilarion.png)
A Russian in Rome [VIDEO]
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…