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User:Rightwingprof

2006-06-28T17:49:21Z

Rightwingprof:

I was born and raised Roman Catholic, and am (cough, cough) part of the transitional generation. My catechism and First Communion were before Vatican II. During my teens and twenties, the Mass had become so humanocentric and so degraded that I lapsed.

My first experiences with Orthodoxy were negative. I had attended a couple of Synod and Greek parishes, where the people went out of their way to make me feel unwelcome because I didn't belong to the correct ethnic group. Then while living in Louisville, Kentucky, the city of my birth, I discovered St. Michael Orthodox Church (http://stmichaelorthodoxchurch.com/).

St. Michael was -- still is -- a large, pan-ethnic parish, with perhaps one-third of the congregants converts. The priest and people were warm and welcoming, and I spent many hours over the next few months talking with the priest and devouring the theology books he loaned me.

I was chrismated in 1984.

I left Louisville to go to graduate school, in a community with no Orthodox presence. Recently, I moved to Pennsylvania, and have been attending a Byzantine parish, until I discovered that there was an OCA parish here.

A more informative story of my conversion is here (http://rightwingnation.com/index.php/religion/home-at-last/).

My Orthodox blog is at http://american-orthodox.com, and my political blog is at http://rightwingnation.com (if I could just figure out how to do links other than typing in the URL here, I'd be set. Well, almost.)

[[Category:User Pages|Rightwingprof]]

User talk:FrJohn

2006-06-28T17:25:12Z

Rightwingprof: Orthodox blogs

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== Protest ==

Fr. John,
I published my article on Hebrew Catholics in the Orthodox Wiki portal for two reasons, the first is I couldn't log in the General Wikipedia and the second because it is related to an Eastern spirituality. You said you deleted it because it is not convenient for your site, i mean, you consider it not appropriate. So, where is the information right for your believers and anybody else? Where is the Christian spirit you proclaim? I don't pretend to alien or romanize the Orthodoxy, as i understand we are from the same Apostolic root. Where is the final period for a real unity? When until are the Latin and Orthodox fighting for little things?
I'm a great admiror of the Eastern culture and its ritual traditions. I respect and support the diversity in the Church of Christ. I believe in the unity but not the uniformity. So, if you could see i look for the defined identities from the peoples.

::Hi Levikahano, It's not right for OrthodoxWiki because it deals with a Roman Catholic group. I'm not saying the group isn't important or that we may share many things, but this generally isn't in the scope of material that we would include here. I would encourage you to put it on a Catholic wiki, or even on Wikipedia. May God bless you. {{User:FrJohn/sig}}

== Deletes and undeletes? ==

I'm curious as to what exactly you're doing. Are you trying to erase article histories to remove direct evidence of vandalism? If so, it makes examining the legitimate part of the histories somewhat difficult... :/ —[[User:ASDamick|Dcn. Andrew]] [[User_talk:ASDamick|talk]] [[Special:Randompage|random]] [[Special:Contributions/ASDamick|contribs]] 16:03, June 3, 2006 (CDT)

== Book sources page formatting ==

There are HTML formatting problems on the [[Special:Booksources]] page. (after the ISBN number is entered) This once worked but now does not. There is no way for me to fix it, so I’ll just report it. [[User:Andrew|Andrew]] 12:57, June 13, 2006 (CDT)

:I went ahead and wikified the page. Is there a particular reason why the html formatting no longer works? —[[User:Magda|magda]] ([[User_talk:Magda|talk]]) 13:09, June 13, 2006 (CDT)

::Hmm... probably has to do with the upgrade to 1.6. I'm out of town now, but I'll try to have a look next week when I get back. [[User:FrJohn|Fr. John]]

==Name blocks==
Are we able to block certain usernames from being used? Right now, the system of renaming has its advantages in the history section of vandalised articles, but the same usernames can still be reused - can we put, say, a '*vandal*' block up? — edited by [[User:Pistevo|Pι]][[Special:Listusers/sysop|s]][[User talk:Pistevo|τ]][[Special:Contributions/Pistevo|é]][[User:Pistevo|vο]] at 21:57, June 16, 2006 (CDT)

:I think it's possible, but I'll have to refresh my memory on this. Let me try to look at this later in the week. [[User:FrJohn|Fr. John]]
::It is, you need [[:metawikipedia:Username Blacklist|this]] extension. [[User:Gregg|Gregg]] 15:40, June 17, 2006 (CDT)

:::Thanks Gregg! That makes it easy. {{User:FrJohn/sig}}
:::P.S. If anyone has an idea what should be blocked, please send me an email.

== Hello, Father ==

Thanks for the message. I'm a php programmer. I'm mystified by wiki, but I'll figure it out.

== Orthodox blogs ==

Yes, father? Btw, american-orthodox.wordpress.com is dead; american-orthodox.com is the new URL.

User talk:FrJohn

2006-06-20T21:18:15Z

Rightwingprof: Hello, Father

User:Rightwingprof

2006-06-16T15:00:55Z

Rightwingprof:

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2006-06-12T16:20:09Z

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User:Rightwingprof

2006-06-12T12:59:44Z

Rightwingprof:

I was born and raised Roman Catholic, and am (cough, cough) part of the transitional generation. My catechism and First Communion were before Vatican II. During my teens and twenties, the Mass had become so humanocentric and so degraded that I lapsed.

My first experiences with Orthodoxy were negative. I had attended a couple of Synod and Greek parishes, where the people went out of their way to make me feel unwelcome because I didn't belong to the correct ethnic group. Then while living in Louisville, Kentucky, the city of my birth, I discovered St. Michael Orthodox Church (http://stmichaelorthodoxchurch.com/).

St. Michael was -- still is -- a large, pan-ethnic parish, with perhaps one-third of the congregants converts. The priest and people were warm and welcoming, and I spent many hours over the next few months talking with the priest and devouring the theology books he loaned me.

I was chrismated in 1984.

I left Louisville to go to graduate school, in a community with no Orthodox presence. Recently, I moved to Pennsylvania, and have been attending a Byzantine parish. I recently found out that there was an Orthodox parish here, and am in somewhat of a quandry at the moment, since I have become active in the Byzantine community and feel as if leaving would be abandoning them -- even though I know I belong at the Orthodox parish.

I will be discussing this with both priests.

User:Rightwingprof

2006-06-12T12:57:41Z

Rightwingprof:

I was born and raised Roman Catholic, and am (cough, cough) part of the transitional generation. My catechism and First Communion were before Vatican II. During my teens and twenties, the Mass had become so humanocentric and so degraded that I lapsed.

My first experiences with Orthodoxy were negative. I had attended a couple of Synod and Greek parishes, where the people went out of their way to make me feel unwelcome because I didn't belong to the correct ethnic group. Then while living in Louisville, Kentucky, the city of my birth, I discovered [http://stmichaelorthodoxchurch.com/]

St. Michael was -- still is -- a large, pan-ethnic parish, with perhaps one-third of the congregants converts. The priest and people were warm and welcoming, and I spent many hours over the next few months talking with the priest and devouring the theology books he loaned me.

I was chrismated in 1984.

I left Louisville to go to graduate school, in a community with no Orthodox presence. Recently, I moved to Pennsylvania, and have been attending a Byzantine parish. I recently found out that there was an Orthodox parish here, and am in somewhat of a quandry at the moment, since I have become active in the Byzantine community and feel as if leaving would be abandoning them -- even though I know I belong at the Orthodox parish.

I will be discussing this with both priests.

User:Rightwingprof

2006-06-12T12:55:33Z

Rightwingprof:

I was born and raised Roman Catholic, and am (cough, cough) part of the transitional generation. My catechism and First Communion were before Vatican II. During my teens and twenties, the Mass had become so humanocentric and so degraded that I lapsed.

My first experiences with Orthodoxy were negative. I had attended a couple of Synod and Greek parishes, where the people went out of their way to make me feel unwelcome because I didn't belong to the correct ethnic group. Then while living in Louisville, Kentucky, the city of my birth, I discovered St. Michael Antiochian Orthodox Church.

St. Michael was -- still is -- a large, pan-ethnic parish, with perhaps one-third of the congregants converts. The priest and people were warm and welcoming, and I spent many hours over the next few months talking with the priest and devouring the theology books he loaned me.

I was chrismated in 1984.

I left Louisville to go to graduate school, in a community with no Orthodox presence. Recently, I moved to Pennsylvania, and have been attending a Byzantine parish. I recently found out that there was an Orthodox parish here, and am in somewhat of a quandry at the moment, since I have become active in the Byzantine community and feel as if leaving would be abandoning them -- even though I know I belong at the Orthodox parish.

I will be discussing this with both priests.