Diptychs: Orthodox Unity and Ecclesiology

Sophia Kishkovsky of ENI News reports, 22 March 2011     Diptychs, an arcane liturgical term that describes the order in which Orthodox churches commemorate each other at their services, is one…

Ratzinger & Ecumenism

From Light of the East, newsletter of the Youngstown SSJC Chapter for May-June 2012Much of Ratzinger’s approach to ecumenism evidences a concern to avoid relativist tendencies. Aidan Nichols attributes to Ratzinger the…

Orientale XV – Conference

The conference will be held June 20-23, 2011 at the Washington Retreat House on the theme of “Rome and the Communion of Churches: Bishop, Patriarch or Pope?”   The Speakers are Metropolitan…

The Church of the East, by David Bentley Hart

Jan 28, 2011 FIRST THINGS  As you may be aware, several Christian churches in Kirkuk, Mosul, Basra, and Baghdad, as well as throughout the rest of Iraq, cancelled their festivities this past…