Pamela Sandilands, Dowager Lady Torpichen

Fr John Salter writes: Pamela Torphichen was a devout Roman Catholic and a keen ecumenist long before it became acceptable or fashionable to be so. It was while at school at the…

Cyril and Methodius: Perennial Example of Inculturation

From the Vatican Information Service: Sts. Cyril and Methodius, apostles of the Slavs and co-patrons of Europe, were the subject of the Holy Father’s catechesis during his general audience, which was held…

Syriac Catholic Delegation to the Holy See

From the Vatican Information Service: At the end of today’s general audience, the Pope presented a Syriac Catholic delegation led by His Beatitude Ignace Youssif III Younan who, “on this his first…

Melkite Celebrations for the Closing month of the Year of Saint Paul

On Sunday 7th. June, in the evening, His Beatitude Patriarch Gregorios III, together with four bishops, celebrated the Divine Liturgy at Mismiyeh, where Saint Paul is traditionally thought to have stayed during…

New Catechism for the Ukrainian Catholic Church

The first worldwide catechism for the Ukrainian Greek Catholic Church is set to transform catechesis throughout the rite. Six years in the making, the historic book is almost finished and will be…

John Scotus: Expressing the Ineffable God

The Vatican Information Service reports, 10th June 2009: At his general audience, held this morning in St. Peter’s Square, the Pope turned his attention, in his series of reflections on the great…

Ecological destruction is ‘sacrilegious’ says Ecumenical Patriarch

Ecumenical Patriarch Bartholomeos I, leader of the world’s Orthodox Christians as their spiritual leader, has called the destruction of the environment a “sacrilegious and sinful” act. “The ecological crisis, and particularly the…

Rabanus Maurus: Exegete, Philosopher, Poet and Pastor

The Vatican Information Service reports, 3 June 2009: At his general audience this morning, Benedict XVI dedicated his catechesis to Rabanus Maurus, abbot of the monastery of Fulda, archbishop of Mainz and…

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The Society is delighted to welcome the appointment of Bishop Hlib Lonchyna MSU, curial bishop of the Majorarchbishopric of Kyiv-Halyc, Ukraine, as Apostolic Exarch for the Ukrainian faithful of the Byzantine rite…