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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 Fri, 04 Sep 2015 14:42:54 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.3.3 https://www.aoiusa.org/patriarch-kirill-and-russian-orthodoxy-deserve-respect-not-insults-an-open-letter-to-george-weigel/ https://www.aoiusa.org/patriarch-kirill-and-russian-orthodoxy-deserve-respect-not-insults-an-open-letter-to-george-weigel/#comments Thu, 03 Sep 2015 21:19:51 +0000 https://www.aoiusa.org/?p=14117 https://www.aoiusa.org/patriarch-kirill-and-russian-orthodoxy-deserve-respect-not-insults-an-open-letter-to-george-weigel/feed/ 41 https://www.aoiusa.org/met-hilarion-of-volokolamsk-church-and-state-in-russia/ https://www.aoiusa.org/met-hilarion-of-volokolamsk-church-and-state-in-russia/#comments Mon, 01 Jul 2013 00:09:59 +0000 https://www.aoiusa.org/?p=12833 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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Met. Hilarion of Volokolamsk is the Chairman of the of the Department for External Church Relations Moscow Patriarchate. Key quote: “We remain strongly convinced that the secular nature of the state does not presuppose the ousting of the Church from the public space or her marginalization and placement in a “ghetto”. The Russian Orthodox Church […]]]> https://www.aoiusa.org/met-hilarion-of-volokolamsk-church-and-state-in-russia/feed/ 9 https://www.aoiusa.org/russian-orthodox-church-canonizes-new-martyr-who-died-at-the-hands-of-the-nazis/ https://www.aoiusa.org/russian-orthodox-church-canonizes-new-martyr-who-died-at-the-hands-of-the-nazis/#comments Wed, 08 Feb 2012 21:25:45 +0000 https://www.aoiusa.org/?p=11454 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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– Source: Orthodox Cognate The Russian Orthodox Church Outside of Russia has canonized Russian national Alexander Schmorell, a native of Orenburg, who was executed by the Nazi regime in 1943 for organizing an anti-fascist student group called the White Rose, the Church Bulletin publication reported. The ceremony to glorify St. Alexander of Munich, who was […]]]> https://www.aoiusa.org/russian-orthodox-church-canonizes-new-martyr-who-died-at-the-hands-of-the-nazis/feed/ 3 https://www.aoiusa.org/patriarch-urges-russias-government-to-listen-and-correct-the-course/ https://www.aoiusa.org/patriarch-urges-russias-government-to-listen-and-correct-the-course/#respond Thu, 12 Jan 2012 16:17:31 +0000 https://www.aoiusa.org/?p=11322 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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Much political and social analysis in America about the Russian Orthodox Church tends to view Russia through the lens of the Cold War. Russia remains an enemy to American interests and the Russian Orthodox Church is merely a vassal to the Russian State that sanctifies, as it were, state policies that are inimical to American […]]]> https://www.aoiusa.org/patriarch-urges-russias-government-to-listen-and-correct-the-course/feed/ 0 https://www.aoiusa.org/roc-bin-laden-killing-reason-to-step-up-fight-against-terrorism-no-cause-for-joy/ https://www.aoiusa.org/roc-bin-laden-killing-reason-to-step-up-fight-against-terrorism-no-cause-for-joy/#respond Wed, 11 May 2011 04:34:11 +0000 https://www.aoiusa.org/?p=9947 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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Source: Interfax | May 3, 2011 The elimination of the ‘number one terrorist’ does not solve the terror problem, said Archpriest Georgy Roschin, deputy head of the Russian Orthodox Church Synodal Department for Church and Society Relations. “The Russian Orthodox Church will not welcome the jubilation that we have seen in some countries. Whoever is […]]]> https://www.aoiusa.org/roc-bin-laden-killing-reason-to-step-up-fight-against-terrorism-no-cause-for-joy/feed/ 0 https://www.aoiusa.org/met-hilarion-confident-pan-orthodox-synod-will-resume-in-near-future/ https://www.aoiusa.org/met-hilarion-confident-pan-orthodox-synod-will-resume-in-near-future/#respond Thu, 24 Mar 2011 19:19:04 +0000 https://www.aoiusa.org/?p=9609 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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Source: Russian Orthodox Church Department for External Church Relations Your Eminence! You have recently led a delegation of the Russian Orthodox Church at the meeting of the Inter-Orthodox Preparatory Commission held in Chambesy near Geneva. Which questions did you discuss? The Inter-Orthodox Preparatory Commission is a working body which prepares the Holy and Great Council […]]]> https://www.aoiusa.org/met-hilarion-confident-pan-orthodox-synod-will-resume-in-near-future/feed/ 0 https://www.aoiusa.org/met-hilarion-an-alliance-of-faith-orthodox-catholic-cooperation/ https://www.aoiusa.org/met-hilarion-an-alliance-of-faith-orthodox-catholic-cooperation/#comments Thu, 24 Mar 2011 19:10:18 +0000 https://www.aoiusa.org/?p=9606 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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Highlight: Our challenges “…are first and foremost the challenges of a godless world, which is equally hostile today to Orthodox believers and Catholics, the challenge of the aggressive Islamic movement, the challenge of moral corruption, family decay, the abandonment by many people in traditionally Christian countries of the traditional family structure, liberalism in theology and […]]]> https://www.aoiusa.org/met-hilarion-an-alliance-of-faith-orthodox-catholic-cooperation/feed/ 10 https://www.aoiusa.org/remarks-of-patriarch-kirill-on-seminarians/ https://www.aoiusa.org/remarks-of-patriarch-kirill-on-seminarians/#comments Thu, 17 Feb 2011 13:14:03 +0000 https://www.aoiusa.org/?p=9189 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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Source: Preachers Institute and Mystagogy. This is a topic that the American Orthodox Church (all jurisdictions) needs to resolve. Below is a small portion from Patriarch Kirill’s report presented before an assembly of rectors of Russian Orthodox theological schools. We constantly speak about obedience in our theological schools. But does not this mask a desire […]]]> https://www.aoiusa.org/remarks-of-patriarch-kirill-on-seminarians/feed/ 43 https://www.aoiusa.org/wrr-dallas-interview-with-met-hilarion-meets-former-president-george-bush/ https://www.aoiusa.org/wrr-dallas-interview-with-met-hilarion-meets-former-president-george-bush/#comments Tue, 15 Feb 2011 21:35:09 +0000 https://www.aoiusa.org/?p=9180 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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WRR Classical 101.1 in Dallas interviewed Met. Hilarion the afternoon before his concert. In the interview he discusses how he composes the music, his 20 year hiatus from composition, and more. It’s an engaging interview that reveals some of the personal side of Met. Hilarion. Earlier that day Met. Hilarion met with former President George […]]]> https://www.aoiusa.org/wrr-dallas-interview-with-met-hilarion-meets-former-president-george-bush/feed/ 6 https://www.aoiusa.org/roc-issues-stricter-rules-for-celibate-clergy/ https://www.aoiusa.org/roc-issues-stricter-rules-for-celibate-clergy/#comments Thu, 10 Feb 2011 03:14:58 +0000 https://www.aoiusa.org/?p=9124 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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Source: Interfax 3 February 2011 The MP Archpastoral Council, at its present session in Moscow, found it necessary to limit the practise of ordaining young celibate men to the clerical state. In a special resolution published on Thursday, the bishops resolved, “We regard the practise of ordaining celibate men not in monastic orders, especially those […]]]> https://www.aoiusa.org/roc-issues-stricter-rules-for-celibate-clergy/feed/ 25 https://www.aoiusa.org/metropolitan-hilarion-of-volokolamsk-allegations-about-a-%e2%80%98breakthrough%e2%80%99-in-orthodox-catholic-dialogue-are-untrue/ https://www.aoiusa.org/metropolitan-hilarion-of-volokolamsk-allegations-about-a-%e2%80%98breakthrough%e2%80%99-in-orthodox-catholic-dialogue-are-untrue/#respond Tue, 28 Sep 2010 19:04:18 +0000 https://www.aoiusa.org/?p=7747 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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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 […]]]> https://www.aoiusa.org/metropolitan-hilarion-of-volokolamsk-allegations-about-a-%e2%80%98breakthrough%e2%80%99-in-orthodox-catholic-dialogue-are-untrue/feed/ 0 https://www.aoiusa.org/met-hilarion-our-concern-is-to-preserve-and-consolidate-unity-of-russian-orthodox-church/ https://www.aoiusa.org/met-hilarion-our-concern-is-to-preserve-and-consolidate-unity-of-russian-orthodox-church/#respond Tue, 20 Jul 2010 14:58:37 +0000 https://www.aoiusa.org/?p=7254 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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On July 17, 2010, Metropolitan Hilarion of Volokolamsk, head of the Moscow Patriarchate’s department for external church relations, speaking in Church and World talk show, answered questions from anchorman Ivan Semenov concerning the work of the DECR as a church external policy department. – Does an Orthodox Christian in his everyday life ever encounter the […]]]> https://www.aoiusa.org/met-hilarion-our-concern-is-to-preserve-and-consolidate-unity-of-russian-orthodox-church/feed/ 0 https://www.aoiusa.org/moscow-1-constantinople-0/ https://www.aoiusa.org/moscow-1-constantinople-0/#comments Mon, 31 May 2010 16:10:58 +0000 https://www.aoiusa.org/?p=6895 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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This is the Church in which Constantinople interfered, to the consternation of the Russian Orthodox Church. Looks like a retreat. HT: International Orthodox Christian News Patriarch Bartholomew urged Ukrainian dissenters to join the Orthodox Church Strelna, May 31, Interfax – Patriarch Bartholomew of Constantinople urged Ukrainian dissenters to repent and join the canonic Orthodox Church. […]]]> https://www.aoiusa.org/moscow-1-constantinople-0/feed/ 76 https://www.aoiusa.org/norm-of-faith-as-norm-of-life/ https://www.aoiusa.org/norm-of-faith-as-norm-of-life/#comments Mon, 24 May 2010 20:41:47 +0000 https://www.aoiusa.org/?p=6760 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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This essay is outstanding. It represents the quality of thought that should be coming from all Orthodox Churches; the words that speak to the foundational questions of culture as I wrote yesterday. Frankly, the Orthodox in America are capable of contributions of this depth and importance. I have my doubts however, that Constantinople will ever […]]]> https://www.aoiusa.org/norm-of-faith-as-norm-of-life/feed/ 8 https://www.aoiusa.org/a-holy-alliance-between-rome-and-moscow-is-born/ https://www.aoiusa.org/a-holy-alliance-between-rome-and-moscow-is-born/#comments Mon, 24 May 2010 19:24:00 +0000 https://www.aoiusa.org/?p=6756 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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Again, almost incomprehensible just a few short years ago. Highlight: “The common objective: the “new evangelization” of Europe. A delegation of the Russian Orthodox Church visits the Vatican, which publishes an anthology of the patriarch’s writings. A meeting between Kirill and Benedict XVI keeps getting closer.” by Sandro Magister Chiesa Espresso ROME, May 24, 2010 […]]]> https://www.aoiusa.org/a-holy-alliance-between-rome-and-moscow-is-born/feed/ 9