The Society of Saint John Chrysostom is a group of Catholics of the Latin and Eastern Churches, along with our friends in other traditions, which promotes greater appreciation of the spiritual, theological and liturgical traditions of Eastern Christendom, works and prays for the unity of the Churches of East and West, and encourages support for the Eastern Churches: ✠ the Byzantine and Oriental Catholic Churches in communion with the Apostolic See of Rome (especially in their contemporary calling to promote reconciliation and the recovery of union between Catholics and Orthodox); ✠ the Orthodox Church; ✠ the Oriental Orthodox Churches and; ✠ the Church of the East. We do this through prayer and liturgy, conferences and lectures, pilgrimage and ecumenical encounters. Join us here.
September & October 2023 calendars published
Byzantine calendars for the months of September and October have now been published. The Society has published the two calendars with details of the saints, readings, and fasting guidelines according to the traditional rule for each day according to the Gregorian calendar and Paschalion. The Gregorian calendar has been chosen because it is the most…
Enzo Bianchi and the Betrayal of Ukrainian Catholics
Featured image: Enzo Bianchi with Metropolitan Kallistos of Diokleia and Walter Cardinal Kasper, 2015, by Jim Forest. ENZO BIANCHI’s article “Perche il Papa non è filorusso” (“Why the Pope is not pro-Russian”) in La Repubblica (11 September 2023) is a betrayal of Catholic solidarity toward a suffering Church and people. There are several problems with his comments:…
William Godfrey: Remembering a Forgotten Shepherd
The following lecture was given by Father Athanasius McVay in the crypt of Westminster Abbey on 21st January 2023, the eve of the sixtieth anniversary of the death of William Cardinal Godfrey, seventh Archbishop of Westminster and first exarch of Ukrainians in England & Wales. It is not true that William Godfrey has been forgotten,…