Here is a translation of the letter sent to the leader of the Ukrainian Greek-Catholic Church, Patriarch Sviatoslav Shevchuk on January 13th, 2014 threatening legal repercussions for allowing priests minister to anti-government protests…
Jamie Dettmer, of The Daily Beast, writes: The Vatican announced last week that Pope Francis will visit the Middle East in May, 50 years after Paul VI’s historic visit—but will any Christians…
The Ukrainian government of President Victor Yanukovych, who caused surprise a few months ago when he unilaterally withdrew Ukraine from a long-running process of effecting an “association” between with the European Union, in…
Our President, Archbishop Vincent Nichols, greets Pope Francis, as our Patron, Cardinal Cormac Murphy O’Connor looks on With great joy, we congratulate our President, the Most Revd Vincent Nichols, Archbishop of Westminster, on…
On Saturday 11 January, it was announced in Rome that the Holy Father added his consent to the recent episcopal appointments made by the Synod of the Chaldean Catholic Church led by…
Nativity of Our Lord and God and Saviour Jesus Christ Ukrainian Catholic Cathedral of the Holy Family of London Homily for the Sunday after Nativity, 11 January 2014 A few days…
Is Christianity a dying religion? Anyone watching the huge crowds assembled to hear the popular new Pope’s Christmas message yesterday would have concluded that the news of the death of Christianity had…
Thanks to Fr James Siemens, we are pleased to be able to carry in translation this critique from an Orthodox academic of the Moscow Patriarchate’s comments on events in Ukraine and their…
This post contains the strongly worded response from the Ecumenical Patriarchate on the Moscow Patriarchate’s Statement on Primacy in the Universal Church, itself a negative response to the Ravenna Statement of the…
This statement was approved by the Holy Synod of the Moscow Patriarchate of the Russian Orthodox Church earlier in 2013, but released on December 26th (Gregorian). When the Joint International Theological Commission of…