Fourth Pan-Orthodox Pre-Council Conference completes its work

The Department for External Church Relations of the Moscow Patriarchate reports that the 4th Pan-Orthodox Pre-Council Conference, which took place at the Patriarchate of Constantinople’s Orthodox Centre in Chambesy near Geneva, completed…

The tomb of St Paul

The Vatican Information Service reports, 3 June 2009: In the Holy See Press Office this morning Cardinal Andrea Cordero Lanza di Montezemolo, archpriest of the papal basilica of St. Paul’s Outside-the-Walls, and…

SSJC Youngstown-Warren Chapter Newsletter

Here is the June 2009 Newsletter – Light of the East – of the Youngstown-Warren Chapter of the Society of St. John Chrysostom in the US.

Interconfessional Seminar on “The Common Date of Easter”

  On the 15th of May, 2009, the Institute of Ecumenical Studies at the Ukrainian Catholic University organized an international, inter-confessional seminar on the topic,“The Common Date of Easter is Possible: The…

Catholics and Orthodox called to a shared hope

The Vatican Information Service reports, 27 June 2009: This morning the Holy Father welcomed a delegation sent to Rome for the feast of Sts. Peter and Paul by His Holiness Bartholomew I,…

Support the Christians of the Holy Land

The Vatican Information Service reports: This morning the Holy Father received participants in the annual general meeting of the Reunion of Organisations for Aid to the Oriental Churches (ROACO). The meeting had…

Syriac-Catholic Liturgy at Santa Maria Maggiore

From the Rorate Caeli blog (where more pictures are available): “His Beatitude Mar Ignatius Joseph III, Syrian Catholic Patriarch of Antioch celebrated a Patriarchal Divine Liturgy in the Syro-Antiochene Rite June 18,…