Completed in 1960, this outstanding choral setting of the Divine Liturgy is also one of the first to have been written in English. Greek-American composer Peter Michaelides perceptively combines elements of Byzantine…
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Patriarch Bartholomew I with Cardinal Kasper When the Apostolic Constitution to provide for ordinariates – ecclesial structures like dioceses – for Anglicans coming into full communion with the Holy See, there was…
Patriarch Pavle of Serbia died on Sunday aged 95. His funeral took place today, Thursday 19th November, led by Patriarch Bartholomew of Constantinople. The Pope was represented by Cardinal Sodano, Secretary of…
Hope for the Holy Land is a weekend festival – “Celebrating Palestinian Christianity” – taking place 28-29 November in Pimlico, at Holy Apostles Church Hall, Cumberland Street, London SW1V 4LY. There will…
The Friends of the Holy Land, a new Charity set up to support the Christians in the Holy Land, was launched last weekend, 14-15 November, in the two Archdioceses of Birmingham and…
On Tuesday 24th November, Bishop Antoine Audo SJ, Bishop of Aleppo of the Chaldeans in Syria, will be leading two sessions at Heythrop College, Kensington Square, London W8. 11.15 – 12.30 –…
His All Holiness the Ecumenical Patriarch, Bartholomew I, made an Apostolic Visitation to the United States October 20 to November 6 2009. A superb website has been created to commemorate the visit,…
Nat da Polis of AsiaNews reports from Paphos, 27 October: “The work of the first phase of meetings post Ravenna 2007, between Orthodox and Catholics for the unity of two churches concluded…
Metropolitan John of Pergamon and HH Pope Benedict XVI Following the modest but solid progress to the renewed Orthodox-Catholic dialogue at Ravenna in 2007, the Joint Commission for the Theological Dialogue has…
The late Metropolitan Elias of Tripoli and Koura blessing the choir of the Institute of Theology of the University of Balamand on the Feast of St John of Damascus, December 2004 The…