Archive News 2004

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December:

• New York Mass marks 25th anniversary of Archbishop Sheen's death

• Asian religious leaders say terrorism is anti-religious

• Political Correctness and You!

• Thoughts and Reflection for the week of Saturday 25 December

• Orthodox Church Begun in Deming, New Mexico

• Sanctification Versus Justification

• Meditation for the 3^rd Sunday of Advent (Guadete)

• A Lost Gospel of Jesus Christ?

• PEDOPHILIA CONDONED (Accepted) BY ISLAM (true Muslims)

• Russian Church Abroad to discuss unification with Church in Russia

• Oakland (California) Seminary Housing Sex Offender Priests

November:

• Security Tightened for Exposition of Francis Xavier's Relics

• No One May Use Religion as Tool of Violence, Says Pope

• Critiquing New Age Occultism and Satanism

• Bishop Wenski Succeeds Orlando Prelate

• U.S. Roman Catholic Conference Elects Bishop Skylstad President

• HOMILY FOR THE FEAST OF ST. ARCHANGEL MICHAEL (Sunday 21
  November)

• Roman and Orthodox Catholic Relations lauded by Vatican

• Viewers Need Help Supervising TV

• THE RATIONAL HEAVENLY POWERS

• Hollywood Morals and Sex Molestation

• Why Cloning is a dangerous thing...

• Gay Friendly U.S. Bishops Outed by Homosexual Activist 'Catholic' Group

• Can you Believe these New Classes for Men?

• Understanding Tax Cuts Humor

• Synaxis of the Archangels Michael & Gabriel and all the  Heavenly Powers

• Wisconsin monks blend Web business, prayer life

• Roman Catholic Papal Nuncio in Russia Analyzes Recent Orthodox Council

• Spirited away: why the end is nigh for religion

• Israeli Appeals for Christian Pilgrimages to Holy Land

• Constantinople Patriarch From Athens to Rome

• Changes in Blasphemy Law Fail to Calm Pakistan's Christians

• The Story Behind Saint Matthias

• Rev Father Tikhon of San Francisco reposes

• Repose of Archbishop G Stephen Trivoli-Johnson DSTh PhD

• Repose of Archbishop Peter Crisci of Brooklyn

• The Sins of Baal vs. The Sins of America

• Koran Prophecy: revisited

• Pagan Ritual Removed From Episcopal Women Ministries

• A Response to Going, Going, Gone Episcopal Church And A Women’s Eucharist A Celebration of The Divine Feminine - An Assault On Christianity

• We All Worship Allah - Indeed!

• US Supreme Court Sidesteps Same-Sex "Marriage" Issue

• 300 Cities Will Join in Saying "No" to Death Penalty

• Relics Ceremony a Step Toward Unity Says Bartholomew I

• Apostle St Andrew and the American Orthodox Church

• Meditation for the 1^st Sunday of Advent

• Ukrainian Rector Uneasy About Religious Freedom

• 65 year Irish (Roman) Priest Slain in Kenya

• How a young conscript became a Russian saint

• Roman Catholic patients "denied access" to chaplains

• 17 Montagnards Get Stiff Prison Terms

• Significance of the Sign of the Cross

• Warning of U.N. Statement on Cloning

• For Religious, a Congress at a Crucial Moment

• Algeria has a Martyr for Muslim and Christian Dialogue

• Parents lash out at priest who told children there's no Santa Claus

• Growing Anti-Clericalism

• On Same-Sex Marriages

• Holiday Season Greetings from Father Abbot Gregori

• Church's Stance Doesn't Stifle Sexuality, Says University Chief

• Roman Pope denounces use of religion as tool of violence

• University Pastoral Programs Elaborate "New Integral Humanism"

• Little Progress Made in Eradication of Child Soldiers

• Bishops join new U.S. ecumenical forum

• Western Media Misinforming About Iraq, Says Kirkuk Prelate

• Siberia Catholics Hope to Come in From the Cold

• Project by the Roman Catholic and Eastern Orthodoxy

• About a Picture of Martin Luther King Jr in a Church

• The Bent Cross

• Atheists fear a God-fearing lurch

• Real Destruction of the Roman Rite!

• 'God gene' discovered by scientist behind gay DNA theory

• PAPAL CORONATION OATH

• Satanism in the Vatican

• The Inverted Cross

• A NIGHTMARE IN THE MAKING

OCTOBER:

• Exorcist Warns of Satanic Youth

• The Weakness of Saints is an example of God's abundant Glory

• Protestants and Orthodox Laud Agreement in Germany on Baptism (ENI Release)

• Irish Roman Jurisdiction of the Catholic Episcopate Launches Child Protection Web Site

• Franciscan voices concern about violence spurred by Greek patriarch

• The End Times is begun with U. S. Bishops of the Roman jurisdiction of the Catholic Church to vote on joining new ecumenical forum

• A Response to two articles: “Pedophilia Condoned (Approved) By Islam” & “Dalai Lama With Roman Catholics, Greek Orthodox and Others”

• Going, Going, Gone Episcopal Church and A Women’s Eucharist: A Celebration of the Divine Feminine

• The Episcopal Church Liturgy for Divorce

• Christians Will Need to Be Mystics

• Where has the Church (the body of Christ) been in America?

• PEDOPHILIA CONDONED (approved) BY ISLAM 

• NOW WE LEARN: HUMAN CHIP HAS SCARY SIDE AFFECTS

• IMMIGRANTS  NOT AMERICANS MUST ADAPT - Part II of Christian Freedoms....

• Christian Freedoms  USE them or LOSE them - Report Details Hostility to Religious Expression in America

• Upcoming Seattle Events from St Nicholas Cathedral

• Catholic leaders cautious about Anglican report on church divisions

• Pope To Return Bones of Sts John Chrysostom & St Gregory Nazianzen Stolen In 120

• Fresco Stirs a Fracas Mother Teresa on Display

• DON'T MESS WITH GRANDMA

• Dalai Lama with Roman Catholics, Greek Orthodox and others

• Canadian Roman Catholic Conference of Bishops

• Through a Glass Darkly

• ABUSE is a strong word

• Report from ACLU regarding immigration legislation

• A response About Immigration

• BEWARE OF WHAT YOU ASK FOR: (YOU JUST MIGHT GET IT!)

• Priests Reminded That They Are a Sign of Contradiction

• Prayer and the law

• Roman jurisdiction of the Catholic Church Alarmed by New Fearsome Saint

• A Bit of Wisdom and Reflection

• People hurt by Churches, Pastors and other Christians.

SEPTEMBER:

• Pope Pays Homage to Cardinal Who Survived Siberian Labor Camp

• German Bishops Wary of Turkey

• Evolutionism and the Limits of Science

• Ecumenical Patriarch Disappointed in U.S. Leadership

• Director Hopes Catholics Rally to Mother Theresa

• Conquering Evil With Good

• Address to International Atomic Energy Agency

• ACLU says Repressive Measures Promoted as Reform

• Sergius

• New Book Compares Power of White House and Vatican

• Nine Workers Killed in Baghdad

• Indian Bishops Condemn Attack on Mother Teresa

• Expert Warns of Muslim Fundamentalism

• AMERICA What is in Store for It and More…

• More Reflections On ACSB Today

• Commentary on social and moral issues of the day

• A Religious Freedom Blacklist Grows

• A British Bill Toys With Death

• Reflection-ACSB

• World Needs the Witness of Benedictines

• Rome - Impact of Salvadore Dali

• Resumption of Darfur Peace Talks Urged

• Moon to Blood

• Bush Reappoints Archbishop Chaput to Panel

• Bioethics Federation Urges Europe to Ban Practice of Euthanasia on Children

• Roman Auxiliary of the Catholic Church Named for London

• Customers of Wells Fargo Bank

• Controversial Jurisdictional Spats and Attacks - 2

• Controversial Jurisdictional Spats and Attacks - I

• Bishops are Custodians of Liturgy

• A Christian Code for Voting

• Should The Church Be In Step With The Times?

• Russians Awake - It's Time to know our History

• Evil for Evil

• About Sergianism

• Passion Relics to Tour U.S. Again

• Media Moguls and Morality

• Masters Program between Faith and Science

• Canadian Bishops Conference Catalog

• Visas and Taxes - Vatican and Israel Talks

• Satan's Strategy of Confusion - II

• Satan's Strategy of Confusion - I

• Ignoring Signs of Demographic

• Horrors of Beslan

• Euthanasia and Children

• An Orthodox Theologian Who Bridges East and West

• Status of Orthodox Catholic Group in Russia

• Memo to Spielberg

• Line Blurring Between Dutch and Nazi Euthanasia

• Is the Black Box Spying on You?

• Chinese Bishop Persecution

• Catholic Jurist says Politicians Mislead

• Canadian Leaflet Touts the Family

• Cover Up Suspected in murder of Roman Priest

• Patriarch of Alexandria Killed

• Nun Identity Card Photo Sparks Veil Debate

• Beslan School Relief Effort Headed For Russia

• A Reply to Quotes From Thaddeus

• Ukrainian Church Flattened

• Ukrainian Church Blast

• Muslim Fundamentalist in Pakistan Tied to Catholic Murder

• May True Be The Hearts That Love You

• Florida Hurricane Season Note - Humor

• Roman Prelate of the Catholic Church

• What is the way Out of the Impasse?

• Uganda To Send Missionaries To Britain

• Turkish Nationalists Protest of Orthodox Patriarch

• Ruling May Put Priest papers in spotlight

• Interview of the Patriarch of Moscow, Alexia

• UNESCO Committee debate Therapeutic Cloning

• Slippery Slope for Euthanasia of Children

• Romero Murdered

• Roman Catholic Doctors Criticize Euthanasia

• Media Must Not Be a Forum for Lynching

• Latin American - Brighter Outlook

• First National Meeting of Exorcists

• Labor Day Prayer

• Irish Floating Church

• Reply to Protestant Sectarians

• Koran Prophecy

• Grammata on the Meaning of Canonical

• 3 new priests from Nigeria reflect U.S. trend.

AUGUST:

• A short history lesson on the privilege of voting...

• Philippine Roman Catholic Bishop Opposes Proposed Two-Child Policy

• Artificial Nutrition and Hydration Explained (Part I)

• Rwandan Roman Catholic Bishops reject report's accusation of their church's complicity in genocide

• Thousands of Iraqi Christians flee homeland

• Attack on Roman Catholic Priests in Jharkhand Seen as Premeditated

• A GLORIOUS TANGLE OF BEAUTY AND UGLINESS 

• Progress Seen in Ties with World Council of Churches

• A Reply to UNITY OR NOT

• Icon of the Kazan Virgin to be returned to the Moscow MP

• An Unorthodox Rift, Exiled Church Splits On Rejoining Russia

• Old Roman Catholic Validity

• Concerning the Succession of St +Aftimios

• Spiritual regeneration in what form?

• Exposition of the present state of the Churches

• Branches of Orthodox Church take big step toward mending fences

• First Meeting of the Negotiating Committees of the
  Russian Orthodox Church Outside of Russia and the Moscow Patriarchate

• A Fact of Exploitation in America?

JULY -

• Rome's Jewish Landmark; a Basilica of the Snows

• OUR RAPPROCHEMENT SHOULD BE WITHOUT MERGING.

• Custody of Holy land Puts Focus on Friars' Formation

• Have they No Shame?

• Official recognition of Baptism of non-Orthodox by Greek Orthodox Church

• Coverage of Antiochian Special Convention

• PATRIARCH OF MOSCOW AND ALL RUSSIA TO TAKE PART IN 2ND SUMMIT OF LEADERS OF WORLD AND TRADITIONAL RELIGIONS IN KAZAKHSTAN

• Archbishop  of Canterbury To Praise Islam On 9/11!

• To Serve

• Pope urges Patriarch to resume ecumenical talks
  With A notation and a Question

• ROCOR Hierarchal Synod to mull unification with ROC

• Embryonic Stem Cell Research?

• The International Commission of the Anglican and Orthodox Theological Dialogue

• Illegal Child Of Patriarch

• Privacy Watch: Why Your Friends Believe You're Selling Viagra or worse!

• Evil One working all hours and at all times

• Ecumenist BLACKMAIL: pope To Return Icon To Russia For Better Ties

• Feel good ecumenism is an empty chalice...

• Wandering Old Believers Find a Home in Alaska

• Russian missionary says Orthodox-Catholic rift not deep

• Orthodox Copts open church in Switzerland

• ‘Milestone’ convenant signed with churches

• Alternative Bulgaria rebel priests forced out

• Alexy II sends greetings to St Seraphim festivities in Kursk

• Majority of Russians against reunification of Orthodox and Catholic Churches

• Russian Minister, Senior Vatican Officials Meet, With Both Sides Commenting on Better Relations

• A Miracle in Our Time: Wonderworking Tikhvin Icon Returns "Home"

• Putin bows to Icon of Our Lady of Tikhvin

• Orthodox church calls on west to give up its political monopoly

• Kremlin sued for return of churches

• Europe's Christian churches debate Muslim Turkey's entry to European Union

• Married Bishops in the Orthodox Church

• Whither Do We Go?

• Ukrainian Cave Monastery Restoration

• Is Christianity At The Cross Roads?

• As The World Goes, So Goes The Church

• Religious Freedom in Europe According to the Roman Jurisdiction of the Catholic Church

• Pornography, Free Speech and Children

• Euthanasia Moves Ahead - Legal or Not !!!

• Ecumenism is Irrevocable

• I AM YOUR FLAG

• Why New Age is a Challenge for Christianity

• Joint Statement of Pope and Ecumenical Patriarch

• Pope appeals to Christians to hasten the day in which full Unity is Achieved

JUNE

• Orthodoxy in DIXIE

• 5 Phases of an Adolescent's Slide into Satanism

• Doubts About Condoms - Science Questioning Their Efficacy in Halting HIV/AIDS

• Vatican Support for Christians of Holy Lands Urged

• Formation of Formators - a Priority for Eastern Churches says the Bishop of the Roman Catholic Church

• Scrutinizing the Inquisition - "Mind-Meld" on Trafficking - Doesn't Spare history on the Popes of Rome

• Orthodox Patriarch to Join in at Roman Catholic Mass on Solemnity

• New Bishop named to the Roman Catholic Uniate "Newton" Eparchy

• Question??? What was the sin of the Eastern church - forced conversion to Islam?

• For Jerusalem Parish - The Wall Cuts to the Heart

• Vatican Assails China's Arrest of 84-year old Bishop

• When a 14-Year Old Went to His Martyrdom

• Former Lutheran Pastor Debunks Women's Ordination

• 13 Martyrs of Mexico to be Beatified in the Roman Catholic Jurisdiction of the Catholic Church

• Vatican issues Decrees for 65 Martyrs of Spain

• Vatican Address to UN Conference on Trade and Development

• Russian Church disapproves of Roman Catholic support of Kyiv (Kiev) patriarchy

• ?Donatism - Sergianist - Self-Anathemas?

• Brief History of ROCOR's Anathema of 1983 against ecumenism

• Unmasking Oscar Wilde and Others!

• Korea Funds Catholic Center for Adult Stem-Cell Research

• Who is Rebuilding Russia today (2004)?

• Catholic and Orthodox discussions confront 'proselytizing' accusation Conflicts must be resolved before a Papal visit can be planned

• Euro constitution Still Mum on Religion - Final Talks Loom on Document

• Let Orthodoxy stand up and be counted

• Allah or Jesus? And they said Islam was a Peaceful religion!

• The DeStRuCtIoN of the ROCOR JURISDICTION

MAY

• PRESIDENT VLADIMIR V. PUTIN OF RUSSIA MEETS RELIGIOUS LEADERS OF AZERBAIJAN, ARMENIA, GEORGIA AND RUSSIA IN THE NOVO-OGAREVO RESIDENCE

• GREAT DECEIVER: Attack of the False Prophets

• RESULTS OF TALKS BETWEEN OFFICIAL DELEGATIONS OF MOSCOW PATRIARCHATE AND RUSSIAN ORTHODOX CHURCH OUTSIDE OF RUSSIA

• MOSCOW MEETING STIRS CATHOLIC-ORTHODOX OPTIMISM

• Congregation ready to build new home

• How can ROCOR *reconcile* with the MP which is not the historic Russian Church, but a creation of Stalin after ROCOR was founded?

• A Russian émigré's Thoughts and Reality Check for others...

• APPEAL OF THE FIRST HIERARCH OF THE RUSSIAN ORTHODOX AUTONOMOUS CHURCH

• ROCOR DELEGATION LEAVES RUSSIA

• STATEMENT BY THE DELEGATION ACCOMPANYING HIS EMINENCE METROPOLITAN
  LAURUS ON HIS TRIP TO RUSSIA

• Aleksiy (former spiritual son of Archbishop Antony)...speaks...

• In the Ukraine: A Roman Uniate (Ukrainian Greek Catholic Church) and Politics

• Metropolitan Archbishop-Archabbot +Michael (Damian-Benedict), OSB,  Announcements regarding: "Wild Benedictine" - "Charter" - "Lines of Succession" and more...

• TWENTY-FIRST CENTURY DESERT FATHERS along with their sense of humor...

APRIL

• Recent Update from Oakland, California...

• In defense of Father Monty? In defense of Bishop Weeks?

• A Very Special Message regarding the Oakland, California Incident...

• Bishop Weeks' in the News re: case thrown out!

• Bishop Donald Weeks' Case - Thrown Out!

• Bishop Donald Pierce Weeks' St. Pat's Abbey in Oakland, Ca. - Problems...

• AOC and UOC-WRM International Headquarters - Contact Information ...

• Natural Law in Our Lives, In Our Courts - Part I and Part II

• Court at the Hague Asks U.S. to Review Death Sentences

MARCH

• Education a "Strategic Tool" to Overcome Racism, UN Told

• Sacrament of Confession Aids in Sanctity

• 700 Roman Catholic Priests and Deacons Removed Since January 2002

• Family, Becomes What You Are!

• George Weigel on the Roman Catholic National Review Board's Report

FEBRUARY

• Putting a Lid on Spam: an Update ,,, it affects even religious institutions

• Roman Catholic Theologians to Discuss New Age and Sects

• Roman Catholic-Muslim Panel Urges "Self-Criticism"

  And Calls for Less Stereotyping

• CANADIAN WEB SITE FOCUSES ON "THE PASSION"

• The Church's Official stand on Same Sex Marriages and Civil Unions...

• The Children of 'Commentary'
  - Ghost town getting new life as 'terrorist' target

• PRESIDENT BUSH ENDORSES ANTI-GAY AMENDMENT TO US 

  CONSTITUTION - SCHWARZENEGGER: GAY MARRIAGES 

  WILL LEAD TO RIOTS - BUSH BYPASSES SENATE, SEATS 

  ANTI-GAY JUDGE

• Meeting With Alexy II Viewed by some as a Step Forward

• Book Takes a Scientific Look at Pederasty...

• Another objective Review of Mel Gibson's "The Passion"

• Metropolitan Archbishops +Wallce David de Ortega Maxey, +Mikhail Itkin, +Jerome Joachim, +David Luther and other lines of succesion

• Why Non-Catholics Cannot Receive Communion

• Vocations Flourish Among Coptic-Roman Catholics in Egypt

• The Shaky State of Families

• Christianity: Bound for the Back of the Class?

• "Morning After" - Debate Goes Beyond the Pill...

• Re: VIEWING THE FINISHED "PASSION" - - - Brutal, but Not Gratuitous

• Re: Gibson on Holocaust and The Passion.

• CONCERNING THE MODERNIST PAPAL CALENDAR

• U.S. Roman Catholic Bishops Awaiting 2 Reports on Sexual Abuse

• Keys for Coexistence Between Muslims and Christians - Part I and II

• How Lourdes Cures Are Recognized as Miraculous - Doctors Scrutinize Each Case

• Hosts From the Tabernacle - And More on Female Altar Servers

• Where we stand

• Traditional Procedure for the Recognition of Saints in Orthodoxy*

• Fr. Seraphim (Rose) Speaks - Excerpts

• Orthodox Cult Abuse

• Bartholomew I Opposes a Greek-Catholic Patriarchate in Ukraine

• Glasgow Archbishop Accuses BBC of Anti-Church Bias

JANUARY

• Havana - Cuba Bartholomew & Castro...

• Is this a joke? Psychology classes for athletes?

• Americans Mouth Off...

• The Harry Potter Phenomenon and Orthodox Reactions

• The Patriot Act revisited in 2003-2004 and what it means to your religious and civil freedoms.... With new links...

• Excerpt from the Jerusalem Post:  "Christmas in the capital"

• Gorbachev and the Russian Emperor (Recent Remarks)

• Orthodox Patriarch Alexy II Sees a Russian Rebound for Orthodox Church

• Nativity Message from Pope Shenouda III

• (Roman Catholic) Vatican - New document on liturgy to appear soon, with "rigid" rules removed

• The Calendar Issue revisited

• On the question of the revised Julian Calendar

• Orthodox Christmas Conflicts and celebrations

Twenty First Century Desert Fathers

AOC HISTORY

Lines of Apostolic Succession of His Eminence - Updated September 26, 2004

 AOC CLERGY

Suggested Reading:

Privacy Watch nOTICE to VISITORS ABOUT OUR E-MAIL POLICY - Updated

Is Christianity At The Cross Roads?

As The World Goes, So Goes The Church

Anomalies in Ecclesiology of Contemporary Orthodox Churches

MAN: To Err, the Church and Holy Spirit

The True meaning of Repentance and forgiveness

AN OPEN LETTER TO ALL MEMBERS OF THE CLERGY

Is Christianity At The Cross Roads?

As The World Goes, So Goes The Church

Anomalies in Ecclesiology of Contemporary Orthodox Churches

Attempts at Coming to An Understanding of Orthodox Catholic Christianity

MAN: To Err, the Church and Holy Spirit

GRAMMATA ON THE MEANING OF CANONICAL
 

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