Ordinariates – Unprecedented and Unknown?

Fr Mark Woodruff, Vice-Chairman, writes in Chrysostom for Pascha 2010, about the Ordinariates to be set up in the Roman Catholic Church for Christians of Anglican background and patrimony   Western Uniatism? When…

Eternal Memory: Patriarch Pavle of Serbia

Archimandrite John Salter, Chairman, writes in Chrysostom, Pascha 2010:     The death occurred in Belgrade on 15th November 2009 of the 44th Patriarch of Serbia, Pavle, at the age of 85. His…

NEW LATIN CATHOLIC CHURCH IN RUSSIA

Fr John Salter writes in Chrysostom, Pascha 2010        In 2004 Pope John-Paul II sent Cardinal Walter Kasper, the President of the Pontifical Council for Promoting Christian Unity (Cardinal Cassidy’s successor),…

The Man in the Iron Mask

Fr John Salter writes in Chrysostom, Pascha 2010:      Some weeks ago I was browsing through Donald Attwater’s book The Christian Churches of the East in Communion with Rome, when I came…

Pilgrimage to Albania and Macedonia – 1967

Fr John Salter writes in Chrysostom, Pascha 2010:   In the summer of 1967 I was in the Croatian town of Dubrovnik. Yugoslavia was still intact as the Union of the Southern…

Papal Homily for Feast of Sts. Peter and Paul, 2010

The Unity of the Church Is Rooted in Its Union With Christ Here is the Vatican translation of the homily Benedict XVI delivered Tuesday at the Mass in St. Peter’s Basilica on…

Pope Benedict Praise the Orthodox Commitment to Unity

This is a translation of the address Benedict XVI delivered on 28 June 2010 upon receiving a delegation sent by the Ecumenical Patriarchate of Constantinople to Rome to celebrate the Solemnity of…

Pope Benedict addresses Eastern Churches Aid Agencies

This is a translation of the address Benedict XVI delivered today on receiving in audience members of the Assembly of Societies for Aid to Eastern Churches (ROACO).   [In Italian] Esteemed Cardinal, Venerated…