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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, 17 Dec 2009 17:00:05 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.3.3 https://www.aoiusa.org/moscow-thanks-pope-for-not-pressing-on-meeting/ https://www.aoiusa.org/moscow-thanks-pope-for-not-pressing-on-meeting/#comments Wed, 16 Dec 2009 22:20:58 +0000 https://www.aoiusa.org/?p=5137 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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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 https://www.aoiusa.org/ecumenical-patriarch-bartholomew-greets-vatican-delegation-at-the-phanar/ https://www.aoiusa.org/ecumenical-patriarch-bartholomew-greets-vatican-delegation-at-the-phanar/#comments Mon, 30 Nov 2009 20:40:33 +0000 https://www.aoiusa.org/?p=4915 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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From the Order of St. Andrew the Apostle: Istanbul, Turkey 11/30/2009 His All Holiness Ecumenical Patriarch Bartholomew addressed a Vatican delegation representing Pope Benedict XVI at the Thronal Feast of the Ecumenical Patriarchate on November 30, 2009. The delegation, led by Cardinal Walter Kasper also delivered greetings to His All Holiness on behalf of Pope […]]]> https://www.aoiusa.org/ecumenical-patriarch-bartholomew-greets-vatican-delegation-at-the-phanar/feed/ 8 https://www.aoiusa.org/benedict-to-bartholomew-unity-through-truth-and-charity-not-power/ https://www.aoiusa.org/benedict-to-bartholomew-unity-through-truth-and-charity-not-power/#respond Mon, 30 Nov 2009 18:57:27 +0000 https://www.aoiusa.org/?p=4907 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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Ecumenical Patriarch Bartholomew received a message today from Pope Benedict XVI at the Phanar on the occasion of the Feastday of St. Andrew the Apostle. The pope’s message was delivered by Cardinal Walter Kasper, president of the Pontifical Council for Promoting Christian Unity, during the Divine Liturgy in the Patriarchal Cathedral of St. George. From […]]]> https://www.aoiusa.org/benedict-to-bartholomew-unity-through-truth-and-charity-not-power/feed/ 0 https://www.aoiusa.org/catholic-orthodox-meeting-on-cyprus-wraps-up/ https://www.aoiusa.org/catholic-orthodox-meeting-on-cyprus-wraps-up/#comments Sun, 25 Oct 2009 01:53:16 +0000 https://www.aoiusa.org/?p=4202 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 you next year in Vienna: According to a statement released by the dialogue commission Oct. 23, the commission’s Orthodox members discussed “the negative reactions to the dialogue by certain Orthodox circles and unanimously considered them as totally unfounded and unacceptable, providing false and misleading information.” The Orthodox delegates “reaffirmed that the dialogue continues with […]]]> https://www.aoiusa.org/catholic-orthodox-meeting-on-cyprus-wraps-up/feed/ 3 https://www.aoiusa.org/report-anglicans-and-oca-to-work-for-unity/ https://www.aoiusa.org/report-anglicans-and-oca-to-work-for-unity/#comments Sun, 11 Oct 2009 04:02:50 +0000 https://www.aoiusa.org/?p=3868 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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Update: (10/11) Ancient Faith Radio has the audio from, “In the Footsteps of Tikhon and Grafton – Anglican and Orthodox Identity, Ministry and Mission in the 21th Century,” the Anglican-Orthodox Conference featuring discussions and addresses by representatives of St. Vladimir’s Seminary and Nashotah House. Listen here. The History of Anglican/Orthodox Relations Fr. Stephen Platt moderated […]]]> https://www.aoiusa.org/report-anglicans-and-oca-to-work-for-unity/feed/ 31 https://www.aoiusa.org/ecumenical-patriarch-bartholomew-unity-in-gods-time/ https://www.aoiusa.org/ecumenical-patriarch-bartholomew-unity-in-gods-time/#comments Wed, 07 Oct 2009 19:47:33 +0000 https://www.aoiusa.org/?p=3797 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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From “Unity as Calling, Conversion and Mission,” the opening address of His All Holiness the Ecumenical Patriarch Bartholomew to the Plenary of the World Council of Churches’ Commission on Faith and Order event, “Called to be One Church” (Crete, Greece, October 7, 2009): We should not be frustrated by our human limitations, which unfortunately determine […]]]> https://www.aoiusa.org/ecumenical-patriarch-bartholomew-unity-in-gods-time/feed/ 4 https://www.aoiusa.org/archbishop-hilarion-makes-appeal-for-christian-unity/ https://www.aoiusa.org/archbishop-hilarion-makes-appeal-for-christian-unity/#comments Mon, 21 Sep 2009 17:25:52 +0000 https://www.aoiusa.org/?p=3560 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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From Interfax: Moscow, September 21 — Head of the Moscow Patriarchate Department for External Church Relations Archbishop Hilarion of Volokolamsk, who is visiting Rome, has celebrated the Divine Liturgy in Catacombs of St. Callixtus. Speaking to believers after the service, the Archbishop urged to overcome a thousand-year-old dispute between Christians of East and West and […]]]> https://www.aoiusa.org/archbishop-hilarion-makes-appeal-for-christian-unity/feed/ 5 https://www.aoiusa.org/metropolitan-gerasimos-on-christian-unity/ https://www.aoiusa.org/metropolitan-gerasimos-on-christian-unity/#comments Mon, 14 Sep 2009 02:17:01 +0000 https://www.aoiusa.org/?p=3458 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 Greek Orthodox Metropolis of San Francisco recently posted the keynote speech that Metropolitan Gerasimos delivered in April for the National Workshop on Christian Unity in Phoenix. It is a lengthy speech so we will post only a few excerpts here. Metropolitan Gerasimos: Our task as Christians is to keep the Body of Christ united […]]]> https://www.aoiusa.org/metropolitan-gerasimos-on-christian-unity/feed/ 16 https://www.aoiusa.org/ligonier-1994-a-new-era-has-begun/ https://www.aoiusa.org/ligonier-1994-a-new-era-has-begun/#comments Mon, 07 Sep 2009 13:29:10 +0000 https://www.aoiusa.org/?p=3364 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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Watch and listen as American Orthodox metropolitans and bishops make a case for administrative unity — 15 years ago. The Ligonier Meeting was a gathering of twenty-eight or twenty-nine Orthodox Christian hierarchs in North America, specifically those affiliated with SCOBA, held Nov. 30 to Dec. 2, 1994, at Antiochian Village in Ligonier, Pa. In Part […]]]> https://www.aoiusa.org/ligonier-1994-a-new-era-has-begun/feed/ 9 https://www.aoiusa.org/unity-in-christ/ https://www.aoiusa.org/unity-in-christ/#comments Wed, 02 Sep 2009 00:03:51 +0000 https://www.aoiusa.org/?p=3318 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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From “Catholic Consciousness: The Anthropological Implications of the Dogma of the Church” by Vladimir Lossky. English translation (from the French original) in St. Vladimir’s Seminary Quarterly, Volume 14, No. 4, 1970. No differences of created nature — sex, race, social status, language, or culture — can affect the unity of the Church; no divisive reality […]]]> https://www.aoiusa.org/unity-in-christ/feed/ 11 https://www.aoiusa.org/scobas-fr-arey-on-chambesy/ https://www.aoiusa.org/scobas-fr-arey-on-chambesy/#comments Fri, 28 Aug 2009 13:36:13 +0000 https://www.aoiusa.org/?p=3291 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 the Orthodox Christian Network, Fr. Mark Arey, the General Secretary of the Standing Conference of the Canonical Orthodox Bishops in the Americas (SCOBA), discusses the Fourth Pre-Conciliar Pan-Orthodox Conference that met in Chambésy, Switzerland, in June, in an interview with Fr. Chris Metropulos. “If we’re serious, really serious about Orthodox unity, well my friends, […]]]> https://www.aoiusa.org/scobas-fr-arey-on-chambesy/feed/ 26 https://www.aoiusa.org/ecumenical-patriarch-bartholomew-calls-on-roman-catholics-to-join-ecumenical-group/ https://www.aoiusa.org/ecumenical-patriarch-bartholomew-calls-on-roman-catholics-to-join-ecumenical-group/#comments Sun, 19 Jul 2009 20:22:41 +0000 https://www.aoiusa.org/?p=2989 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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Quote from the story: Bartholomeos warned that the failure of churches in Europe to match their statements about unity with specific actions calls into question their credibility. The Charta Oecumenica (cited below) makes a case for Christian unity. Did its authors have the American Orthodox in mind, as well? Probably not. Sample: Various forms of […]]]> https://www.aoiusa.org/ecumenical-patriarch-bartholomew-calls-on-roman-catholics-to-join-ecumenical-group/feed/ 1 https://www.aoiusa.org/the-constitution-of-the-eastern-church/ https://www.aoiusa.org/the-constitution-of-the-eastern-church/#comments Mon, 29 Jun 2009 03:29:24 +0000 https://www.aoiusa.org/?p=2678 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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In 1942, Russian emigre and lay theologian Nicholas Zernov published a little book on the Orthodox Church under the auspices of the Fellowship of St. Alban and St. Sergius. Much of Zernov’s “The Church of the Eastern Christians” is aimed — no surprise — at educating the British public about the Orthodox Church and advancing […]]]> https://www.aoiusa.org/the-constitution-of-the-eastern-church/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/metropolitan-alexios-prays-for-unity-at-roman-catholic-service/ https://www.aoiusa.org/metropolitan-alexios-prays-for-unity-at-roman-catholic-service/#comments Fri, 15 May 2009 19:39:39 +0000 https://www.aoiusa.org/?p=2248 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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Alexios, Greek Orthodox Metropolitan of Atlanta, joined Roman Catholic Archbishop Wilton D. Gregory on May 6 for an “Evening of Prayer and Unity” service at Atlanta’s Cathedral of Christ the King in honor of the Jubilee Year of St. Paul. Archbishop Gregory graciously welcomed Orthodox Christians to the service. “Our Orthodox brothers and sisters represent […]]]> https://www.aoiusa.org/metropolitan-alexios-prays-for-unity-at-roman-catholic-service/feed/ 9