Tag: Orthodox Church
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![Fr. Mark Arey Discusses Episcopal Assembly Updates [AUDIO]](https://www.aoiusa.org/wp-content/uploads/2011/03/episcopal-assembly-150x150.png)
Fr. Mark Arey Discusses Episcopal Assembly Updates [AUDIO]
HT: Byzantine, TX Fr. Mark Arey discusses events related to the Assembly of Canonical Bishops in North America. He also discusses the recent pan-Orthodox Chambésy meeting and what disagreements were aired there (e.g. authority of the Ecumenical Patriarchate, process of gaining autocephaly, order of the diptychs, etc.). Listen here:
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Highly Visible Russian Church to be Built in Paris
Here the Russians could learn something from Americans: Don’t build contemporary Churches; in 20 years the structure looks horribly dated. (The French should remember the Pompidou Center. The staircase looks like a tube torn out of a walk through aquarium, the vents like they belong on the Titanic.) The model of the Church looks like…
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![Orthodoxy and the Death Penalty [AUDIO]](https://www.aoiusa.org/wp-content/uploads/2010/03/IlluminedHeart.jpg)
Orthodoxy and the Death Penalty [AUDIO]
On March 9, 2011 the Governor of Illinois signed a law banning the death penalty in his state, commuting the death sentence of 15 prisoners on death row. In the current episode of The Illumined Heart, Fr Peter-Michael Preble, a staunch anti-death penalty advocate, and host Kevin Allen discuss the pros and cons of capital…
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Fr. Gregory Jenson: The Orthodox Church and Civil Society
Source: Koinonia Much like the Catholic Church, Mainline Protestant denominations and Evangelical Christians, the Orthodox Church is struggle to decide whether or not Christ has called us to take an active or a passive role in the world. By his example, Metropolitan Jonah has said we should be active–even proactive–while his critics, either out of…
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WAPO: Metropolitan Jonah goes to Washington
Source: Washington Post | Julia Duin | Sunday, March 20, 11:13 AM They appeared at the edge of the crowd on the Mall, a group of men seemingly out of a distant century. Their heads were crowned with klobuks, the distinctive headgear of Orthodox clergy. Sporting black cassocks and untrimmed gray beards, with golden icons…