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1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.3.3The Church Will Become Small
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Source: Catholic Education Resource Center | Cardinal Joseph Ratzinger (Pope Benedict XVI) The church will become small and will have to start afresh more or less from the beginning. She will no longer be able to inhabit many of the edifices she built in prosperity. As the number of her adherents diminishes . . . […]]]>https://www.aoiusa.org/the-church-will-become-small/feed/28Mattingly: Pope Benedict, President Obama and Religious Freedom
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– Source: The Republic | Terry Mattingly Pope Benedict XVI cut to the chase when meeting with the visiting bishops from Washington, D.C., Baltimore and the U.S. armed services. The pope mentioned “religious freedom” in the third sentence of his Jan. 19 remarks at the Vatican and he never let up — returning to this […]]]>https://www.aoiusa.org/mattingly-pope-benedict-president-obama-and-religious-freedom/feed/3Pope to American Bishops: Secularism Threatens Liberty, Church Must Respond
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Freedom detached from moral truth, said Pope Benedict XVI in a recent address to American Catholic Bishops, reflects an “extreme individualism” that requires response from the (Catholic) Church. This is an argument not limited to Catholics alone (see: “Has Europe Lost its Soul” by Chief Rabbi Lord Sacks) and includes the Orthodox as well (see: […]]]>https://www.aoiusa.org/pope-to-american-bishops-secularism-threatens-liberty-church-must-respond/feed/8With the Rise of Militant Secularism, Rome and Moscow Make Common Cause
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The Acton Institute just published my essay. Source: Acton Institute | Fr. Johannes L. Jacobse The European religious press is abuzz over recent developments in Orthodox – Catholic relations that indicate both Churches are moving closer together. The diplomatic centerpiece of the activity would be a meeting of Pope Benedict and Patriarch Kyrill of the […]]]>https://www.aoiusa.org/with-the-rise-of-militant-secularism-rome-and-moscow-make-common-cause/feed/25La Stampa: Divisions in Orthodox Church Hinder Pope’s Meeting with Patriarch of Moscow
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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 […]]]>https://www.aoiusa.org/la-stampa-divisions-in-orthodox-church-hinder-pope%e2%80%99s-meeting-with-patriarch-of-moscow/feed/2Interview with Met. Hilarion on Unity and Primacy in the Orthodox Church [AUDIO]
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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/2More to the Ecumenical Patriarch’s recent encyclical than meets the eye
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As I mentioned last week, I recently became a columnist for Catholic Online. They just posted my latest piece. (They are fast. I submitted it just this afternoon.) ++++++++++++++++++++++++++ Last week Orthodox Ecumenical Patriarch Bartholomew released an encyclical castigating what he called Orthodox “fanatics” who object to Orthodox ecumenical involvement. The encyclical was well received […]]]>https://www.aoiusa.org/more-to-the-ecumenical-patriarchs-recent-encyclical-than-meets-the-eye/feed/35Papal Environmentalism: Pro-Life and Pro-Marriage
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Ethics and Public Policy Center | George Weigel In his January 11 address to the diplomatic corps accredited to the Holy See, Pope Benedict XVI continued to carve out an interesting Catholic position on ecology. The Pope insists that care for creation is a moral obligation that falls on both individuals and governments. His very […]]]>https://www.aoiusa.org/papal-environmentalism-pro-life-and-pro-marriage/feed/2Patriarch Kirill & Pope Benedict: A Tale of Two Leaders for a new Missionary Age
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I’ve been asked to become an Orthodox columnist on Catholic.org and accepted. Below is my first essay. Regular readers will notice ideas we discussed on the AOI Observer. +++++++++++++++++ Catholic Online (www.catholic.org) NAPLES, FL. (Catholic Online) – Over four decades ago Pope John Paul II said that the restoration of the Russian Orthodox Church was […]]]>https://www.aoiusa.org/patriarch-kirill-pope-benedict-a-tale-of-two-leaders-for-a-new-missionary-age/feed/33Church has right to bring Gospel values to public debate, pope says
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Catholic News Service VATICAN CITY (CNS) — Catholic teaching and the truths of the Gospel have a right to be heard in public debate, especially in a country where so many people claim to be Christian, Pope Benedict XVI told the bishops of England and Wales. However, the church must recognize dissent within its own […]]]>https://www.aoiusa.org/church-has-right-to-bring-gospel-values-to-public-debate-pope-says/feed/0Catholic Herald: In Russia, the path to unity is defrosting
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Roman Catholic reporting about union between Rome and Orthodoxy tends to be over optimistic. The Catholics seem to want union much more than the Orthodox do. A clearer assessment might be that Moscow sees cooperation with Rome as necessary to re-Christianize Europe, to help Europe rediscover its moral and religious moorings. Nevertheless, a significant thaw […]]]>https://www.aoiusa.org/catholic-herald-in-russia-the-path-to-unity-is-defrosting/feed/3“The Pope Is the First Among the Patriarchs.” Just How Remains to Be Seen
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ROME, January 25, 2010 – This evening, with vespers in the basilica of Saint Paul’s Outside the Walls, Benedict XVI is closing the week of prayer for Christian unity. There are some who say that ecumenism has entered a phase of retreat and chill. But as soon as one that looks to the East, the […]]]>https://www.aoiusa.org/the-pope-is-the-first-among-the-patriarchs-just-how-remains-to-be-seen/feed/0Der Speigel interviews Abp. Hilarion (Alfeyev)
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Ed. The secularized west meets the Orthodox east. From the Russian Orthodox Church Department of External Church Relations website. +++++++++++++++++++ Archbishop Hilarion of Volokolamsk, chairman of the Moscow Patriarchate department for external church relations, answered questions from Der Spiegel magazine. Below is the text of the talk His Eminence Hilarion had with the magazine’s correspondents. […]]]>https://www.aoiusa.org/der-speigel-interviews-abp-hilarion-alfeyev/feed/0Moscow thanks Pope for not pressing on meeting
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From Interfax (2009-12-16): Moscow — The Moscow Patriarchate is grateful to Pope Benedict XVI for understanding problems between the two Churches and not pressing on with visiting Russia and meeting with the Patriarch. “Pope Benedict XVI perfectly understands the existing difficulties and therefore is not pressing on his meeting with the Patriarch, not to mention […]]]>https://www.aoiusa.org/moscow-thanks-pope-for-not-pressing-on-meeting/feed/2‘Europe, spiritual homeland’
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In “For Rome and Moscow, It’s Spring Again,” Sandro Magister on Chiesa looks at the book, in Italian and Russian, presented to Pope Benedict recently by Archbishop Hilarion of Volokolamsk. It is a collection of the main speeches of Benedict, as cardinal and pope, on European culture made over the past ten years. The title […]]]>https://www.aoiusa.org/europe-spiritual-homeland/feed/13