2011 Week of Prayer for Christian Unity – Jerusalem

The Churches from all round the world will focus their attention on their “Mother Church”, the church of the first Christians, in Jerusalem as they observe the Week of Prayer for Christian…

New Apostolic Visitor for the UK’s Syro-Malankara Catholics

Zenit reports, 14 July 2010: Pope Benedict XVI has erected an Apostolic Exarchate for the Syro-Malankara Catholic Church in the United States, and appointed Father Thomas Naickamparampil, 49, of the Major Archieparchy…

Pope Benedict on Unity – Pentecost Homily 2010

“When a person or a community, limits itself to its own way of thinking and acting, it is a sign that it has distanced itself from the Holy Spirit. The path of…

Rome & The Orthodox East – Aidan Nichols OP

Rome and the Orthodox East – The Conclusion to Rome and the Eastern Churches: A Study in Schism (Ignatius Press, 2010; 2nd edition), by Aidan Nichols, O.P.   Gratefully reposted from Ignatius Insight:…

Metropolitan Hilarion celebrates Divine Liturgy at Tomb of St Peter

On 19 May 2010, Metropolitan Hilarion of Volokolamsk, Chairman of the Moscow Patriarchate’s Department for External Church Relations, currently in Italy with the blessing of His Holiness Patriarch Kirill of Moscow and…