Updates

Archpriest Michael Harper – Memory Eternal!

The Society wishes to extend its loving prayers and fraternal wishes to the family of Father Michael and to all his many friends in the Antiochian Orthodox Deanery of the UK and…

Pontifical Council on Orthodox-Catholic Dialogue

The Pontifical Council for Promoting Christian Unity published the following communique on January 26th 2010, following the unhelpful leak by an Italian journalist-blogger of an unadopted document currently under discussion in the…

Vera Rich RIP – Memory Eternal

Here is The Times obituary, which appeared on 25th January 2010: Vera Rich was an accomplished translator of Ukrainian and Belarussian literature and poetry. Born Faith Elizabeth Joan in 1936 in Canonbury,…

French court rules Orthodox cathedral in Nice belongs to Russia

Associated Press reports on January 20th 2010: A French court ruled Wednesday that a Russian Orthodox cathedral built on the French Riviera nearly a century ago under Czar Nicholas II now belongs…

Pope Benedict’s Angelus Meditation for Christian Unity

Towards the close of the 2010 Week of Prayer for Christian Unity, on January 24th the Holy Father reflected with pilgrims praying the Angelus that the multiplicity of charisms in the Church…

Special Synod for the Middle East

Zenit.org carries here the Lineamenta, or Guidelines, now agreed for the Special Synod on the Catholic Churches in the Middle East, which will take place in October 2010. The theme will be…

Codex Pauli Furthers Ecumenism

A 424-page Codex Pauli dedicated to Benedict XVI is honouring the Apostle to the Gentiles with illustrations and writings in the spirit of the ancient monastic codices. The work will be presented…

Patriarch Gregorios III Visits Alexandria

The visit of His Beatitude Patriarch Gregorios III to Alexandria, 8-11 January 2010 His Beatitude arrived on the evening of Friday 8 January at the Patriarchal Residence in Fleming, Alexandria. He went…