Tag: Orthodox Church
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Orthodoxy and Homosexuality
From a new posting on Fr. Peter-Michael Preble’s blog. The past few weeks have seen the number of young people being targeted for their homosexual identity then it has in years past. Recently TV personality Ellen Degeneris, herself a lesbian, posted a video about the bullying of people who are different then the rest of…
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Wesley J. Smith – Bioethics: Creating a Culture of Death
The Fall 2010 Lecture Series at St. Tikhon’s revolves around various life issues and the first speaker in the series is Wesley Smith who is a lawyer and an award winning author as well as a Senior Fellow in Human Rights and Bioethics at the Discovery Institute. He is introduced by the Dean of the…
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Moscow Patriarchate freezes ecumenical journey: Pope never commanded in the East
More on the clarification from Moscow. Source: Asia News A statement from Metropolitan Hilarion, chairman of the Department for External Relations of the Patriarchate, challenges the very foundations of the recent meeting of the Mixed Commission between Catholics and Orthodox on the role of the bishop of Rome in the Church of the first millennium,…
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Symposium on Patristic Doctrine of Atonement to Take Place at Princeton
Princeton, NJ (Sept 28, 2010) — The Fr. Georges Florovsky Orthodox Christian Theological Society at Princeton University is pleased to announce our first public event, “On the Tree of the Cross: The Patristic Doctrine of Atonement,” a symposium scheduled for Saturday, February 12, 2011. Taking our cue from Fr. Georges Florovsky, the eminent 20th century…
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Metropolitan Hilarion of Volokolamsk: Allegations about a ‘breakthrough’ in Orthodox-Catholic dialogue are untrue
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…