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	<title>AOI Observer</title>
	
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		<title>Steve the Builder: Orthodoxy and Homosexuality, Part 1</title>
		<link>http://www.aoiusa.org/blog/2010/03/steve-the-builder-orthodoxy-and-homosexuality-part-1/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 20 Mar 2010 05:01:49 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Fr. Johannes Jacobse</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[I haven&#8217;t listened to it yet but usually Steve the Builder has very good material.

In this podcast Steve references an article he wrote for AGAIN Magazine on the Orthodox Church and same sex attraction. In it he shares the results of several interviews with Orthodox men and women who shared their backgrounds and experiences as [...]]]></description>
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		<title>The Future of the GOA Rests On 32 Celibate Clergy</title>
		<link>http://www.aoiusa.org/blog/2010/03/the-future-of-the-goa-rests-on-32-celibate-clergy/</link>
		<comments>http://www.aoiusa.org/blog/2010/03/the-future-of-the-goa-rests-on-32-celibate-clergy/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 19 Mar 2010 12:17:07 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Fr. Johannes Jacobse</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[Greek Orthodox Archdiocese of America]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[The gene pool is shrinking.  HT: Mystagogy
According to the National Herald, the future leadership of the Greek Orthodox Archdiocese of America rests on 32 qualified celibate priests out of the approximately 600 reported priests of the GOA. These numbers were issued out of the Ecumenical Patriarchate on 16 September 2009.
Out of the 32 celibate [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Faith to Faith: Russian Patriarch ending landmark Armenia visit</title>
		<link>http://www.aoiusa.org/blog/2010/03/faith-to-faith-russian-patriarch-ending-landmark-armenia-visit/</link>
		<comments>http://www.aoiusa.org/blog/2010/03/faith-to-faith-russian-patriarch-ending-landmark-armenia-visit/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 18 Mar 2010 14:43:53 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Fr. Johannes Jacobse</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Ecumenical]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[Armenian genocide]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[Catholicos Karekin II]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Pat. Kirill]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[ArmeniaNow.com
Patriarch of Moscow and All Russia Kirill is completing today his three-day visit to Armenia during which he and his Armenian counterpart accentuated the strong bonds between the two churches and peoples.
As part of the visit staged at the invitation of the Catholicos of All Armenians, the leader of the Russian Orthodox Church took part [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Fr. George Nicozisin: The Mission of the Greek Orthodox Church in America</title>
		<link>http://www.aoiusa.org/blog/2010/03/fr-george-nicozin-the-mission-of-the-greek-orthodox-church-in-america/</link>
		<comments>http://www.aoiusa.org/blog/2010/03/fr-george-nicozin-the-mission-of-the-greek-orthodox-church-in-america/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 17 Mar 2010 02:40:22 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Fr. Johannes Jacobse</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Hellenism and Orthodoxy]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[Fr. George Nicozisin]]></category>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.aoiusa.org/blog/?p=6121</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Fr. George Nicozisin was one of the most respected clergy in the Greek Orthodox Church of the last generation. Reading through this essay he wrote a while back (I could not find the date), you can see why. There were (and presumably still are) men who understood the evangelical mission of the Orthodox Church. Fr. [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Abp. Nathaniel of Detroit: Orthodoxy in North America</title>
		<link>http://www.aoiusa.org/blog/2010/03/abp-nathaniel-of-detroit-orthodoxy-in-north-america/</link>
		<comments>http://www.aoiusa.org/blog/2010/03/abp-nathaniel-of-detroit-orthodoxy-in-north-america/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 17 Mar 2010 02:35:30 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Fr. Johannes Jacobse</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[Abp. Nathaniel of Detroit]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Orthodox Church in America (OCA)]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Orthodox Unity]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.aoiusa.org/blog/?p=6114</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Romanian Orthodox for Enquiry in America

&#8220;The demands upon our Church&#8217;s life by an un-believing society do not allow for any further delay in this process.&#8221;
 Ligonier: Statement on the Church in North America, 1994

I. Three Autocephalous North American Churches.
The Pan-Orthodox Pre-Council Commission determined that the Church on the North American Continent region would cover three [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Podcast: The Animal Rights Movement from an Orthodox perspective</title>
		<link>http://www.aoiusa.org/blog/2010/03/podcast-the-animal-rights-movement-from-an-orthodox-perspective/</link>
		<comments>http://www.aoiusa.org/blog/2010/03/podcast-the-animal-rights-movement-from-an-orthodox-perspective/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sun, 14 Mar 2010 03:20:14 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Fr. Johannes Jacobse</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[Animal rights]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[human exceptionalism]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Kevin Allen]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Wesley J. Smith]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Human exceptionalism advocate and author Wesley J. Smith speaks with host Kevin Allen about the animal rights-animal liberation movement and its insistence on the &#8220;moral equivalence&#8221; between animals and humans! How does this compare with Orthodox teachings about the &#8220;brotherhood&#8221; of humans, animals and inanimate nature (St Gregory Palamas)? Listen and find out !
Listen here:
Download [...]]]></description>
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		<title>“If you pass the Stupak amendment, more children will be born, and therefore it will cost us millions more”</title>
		<link>http://www.aoiusa.org/blog/2010/03/if-you-pass-the-stupak-amendment-more-children-will-be-born-and-therefore-it-will-cost-us-millions-more/</link>
		<comments>http://www.aoiusa.org/blog/2010/03/if-you-pass-the-stupak-amendment-more-children-will-be-born-and-therefore-it-will-cost-us-millions-more/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sun, 14 Mar 2010 03:19:37 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Fr. Johannes Jacobse</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[sanctity of life]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Bart Stupak]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Democratic party]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Obamacare]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.aoiusa.org/blog/?p=6107</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[From The Corner on National Review Online.

Sitting in an airport, on his way home to Michigan, Rep. Bart Stupak, a pro-life Democrat, is chagrined. &#8220;They&#8217;re ignoring me,&#8221; he says, in a phone interview with National Review Online. &#8220;That&#8217;s their strategy now. The House Democratic leaders think they have the votes to pass the Senate&#8217;s health-care [...]]]></description>
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		<title>The times, they are a changin</title>
		<link>http://www.aoiusa.org/blog/2010/03/the-times-they-are-a-changin/</link>
		<comments>http://www.aoiusa.org/blog/2010/03/the-times-they-are-a-changin/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sun, 14 Mar 2010 03:12:28 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Fr. Johannes Jacobse</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Orthodox Church]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Met. Hilarion (ROCOR)]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Met. Jonah]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.aoiusa.org/blog/?p=6104</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[ROCOR Metropolitan, bishops, and clergy visit St. Tikhon’s Monastery
SOUTH CANAAN, PA [OCA] &#8212; History was made on Tuesday, March 2, 2010, as His Eminence, Metropolitan Hilarion, First Hierarch of the Russian Orthodox Church Outside of Russia, visited Saint Tikhon&#8217;s Monastery here.
Accompanying Metropolitan Hilarion were His Grace, Bishop Jerome of Manhattan; His Grace, Bishop George of [...]]]></description>
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		<title>First Episcopal Assembly is called</title>
		<link>http://www.aoiusa.org/blog/2010/03/first-episcopal-assembly-is-called/</link>
		<comments>http://www.aoiusa.org/blog/2010/03/first-episcopal-assembly-is-called/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 12 Mar 2010 20:30:07 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Fr. Johannes Jacobse</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Orthodox Church]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Chambesy]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Episcopal Assemby]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[It&#8217;s really the second. The first was Ligonier.
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The 65 Orthodox Bishops in the Americas received their invitations to attend the first Episcopal Assembly to be held under the new Chambesy agreement  last week. Writing to all as the representative of the Ecumenical Patriarchate, Archbishop Demetrios stated:
“Therefore, in order to comment the process to which [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Metropolitan Hilarion of Volokolamsk: Culture is at risk of becoming anti-culture without the Church</title>
		<link>http://www.aoiusa.org/blog/2010/03/metropolitan-hilarion-of-volokolamsk-culture-is-at-risk-of-becoming-anti-culture-without-the-church/</link>
		<comments>http://www.aoiusa.org/blog/2010/03/metropolitan-hilarion-of-volokolamsk-culture-is-at-risk-of-becoming-anti-culture-without-the-church/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 10 Mar 2010 16:02:43 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Fr. Johannes Jacobse</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[Communism]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Met. Hilarion of Volokolamsk]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Russian Orthodox Church]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[secularism]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.aoiusa.org/blog/?p=6079</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Brilliant! Met. Hilarion&#8217;s warning deals with what Nietzsche called the &#8220;transvaluation of values&#8221; &#8212; what his dark prophesy warned would happen in the West because &#8220;God is Dead,&#8221; by which he meant that Western culture was entering into a period where it functioned within the cultural structures shaped by Christianity but without concrete, existential communion [...]]]></description>
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