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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 Thu, 11 Feb 2010 16:25:16 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.3.3 https://www.aoiusa.org/patriarch-kirill-pope-benedict-a-tale-of-two-leaders-for-a-new-missionary-age/ https://www.aoiusa.org/patriarch-kirill-pope-benedict-a-tale-of-two-leaders-for-a-new-missionary-age/#comments Thu, 11 Feb 2010 14:36:00 +0000 https://www.aoiusa.org/?p=5843 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’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/ 33 https://www.aoiusa.org/calls-to-%e2%80%9cresist-europes-secularization%e2%80%9d-made-at-taize-youth-meeting/ https://www.aoiusa.org/calls-to-%e2%80%9cresist-europes-secularization%e2%80%9d-made-at-taize-youth-meeting/#comments Tue, 05 Jan 2010 02:51:33 +0000 https://www.aoiusa.org/?p=5366 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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The Presbyterian Outlook (ENI) — Ecumenical Patriarch Bartholomeos I, a spiritual leader who represents Eastern Orthodox Christianity, has urged young Christians to resist secularization in Europe in a message to an ecumenical meeting that was greeted by global and regional leaders. “After the fall of the Berlin Wall, Europe no longer recognizes the place for […]]]> https://www.aoiusa.org/calls-to-%e2%80%9cresist-europes-secularization%e2%80%9d-made-at-taize-youth-meeting/feed/ 11 https://www.aoiusa.org/boldness-or-irrelevance/ https://www.aoiusa.org/boldness-or-irrelevance/#comments Tue, 10 Nov 2009 16:04:50 +0000 https://www.aoiusa.org/?p=4494 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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John Mark Reynolds at the Scriptorium: There is a boldness that should come with the a commitment to Christ. When the Green Patriarch (Ecumenical Patriarch Bartholomew) goes to a university ridden with the problems of our age and only tells them the parts of the Christian faith with which they are likely to agree, we […]]]> https://www.aoiusa.org/boldness-or-irrelevance/feed/ 4 https://www.aoiusa.org/patriarch-kirill-a-global-reach/ https://www.aoiusa.org/patriarch-kirill-a-global-reach/#comments Tue, 19 May 2009 02:55:44 +0000 https://www.aoiusa.org/?p=2282 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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Russia’s new patriarch is “proving to be a capable administrator” and has surrounded himself with a team of “well-trained and capable younger clerics,” say Leonid Sevastyanov and Robert Moynihan in the Moscow Times. In “100 Days of Patriarch Kirill,” the writers also say that the new leader of the Russian Orthodox Church has a “fully […]]]> https://www.aoiusa.org/patriarch-kirill-a-global-reach/feed/ 1 https://www.aoiusa.org/pope-and-patriarch-meet-in-jerusalem/ https://www.aoiusa.org/pope-and-patriarch-meet-in-jerusalem/#comments Sat, 16 May 2009 01:23:30 +0000 https://www.aoiusa.org/?p=2265 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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Pope Benedict XVI paid a visit today to the Greek Orthodox Patriarch of Jerusalem, Theophilus III. The pope, according to the Catholic News Agency, “spoke with the patriarch of his gratitude for efforts to achieve greater unity between their Churches and asked the Christians of Jerusalem to raise a generation dedicated to the faith.” Pope […]]]> https://www.aoiusa.org/pope-and-patriarch-meet-in-jerusalem/feed/ 14 https://www.aoiusa.org/alexy-ii-a-transitional-patriarch/ https://www.aoiusa.org/alexy-ii-a-transitional-patriarch/#respond Thu, 11 Dec 2008 15:05:42 +0000 https://www.aoiusa.org/?p=652 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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Vladimir Berezansky, Jr., a U.S. lawyer with experience in Russia and former Soviet republics, recalls an interview with Patriarch Alexy II in 1991. Like many Russians at the time, the Patriarch was coping with a “disorienting change” following the fall of the Soviet Empire, Berezansky writes. At the time, he seemed overcome by the changes […]]]> https://www.aoiusa.org/alexy-ii-a-transitional-patriarch/feed/ 0