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Greek clergy denounce ‘heresy of ecumenism’

A group of Orthodox clergy in Greece, led by three senior archbishops, have published a manifesto pledging to resist all ecumenical ties with Roman Catholics and Protestants. “The only way our communion…

Moscow and Constantinople Orthodox Patriarchs meet

Asia News reports, 7 July 2009: For his first foreign trip since his election Kyrill, Patriarch of Moscow, picked Constantinople. His visit was dominated by a desire among Orthodox to consolidate the…

Fourth Pan-Orthodox Pre-Council Conference completes its work

The Department for External Church Relations of the Moscow Patriarchate reports that the 4th Pan-Orthodox Pre-Council Conference, which took place at the Patriarchate of Constantinople’s Orthodox Centre in Chambesy near Geneva, completed…

The tomb of St Paul

The Vatican Information Service reports, 3 June 2009: In the Holy See Press Office this morning Cardinal Andrea Cordero Lanza di Montezemolo, archpriest of the papal basilica of St. Paul’s Outside-the-Walls, and…

SSJC Youngstown-Warren Chapter Newsletter

Here is the June 2009 Newsletter – Light of the East – of the Youngstown-Warren Chapter of the Society of St. John Chrysostom in the US.

Interconfessional Seminar on “The Common Date of Easter”

  On the 15th of May, 2009, the Institute of Ecumenical Studies at the Ukrainian Catholic University organized an international, inter-confessional seminar on the topic,“The Common Date of Easter is Possible: The…

Catholics and Orthodox called to a shared hope

The Vatican Information Service reports, 27 June 2009: This morning the Holy Father welcomed a delegation sent to Rome for the feast of Sts. Peter and Paul by His Holiness Bartholomew I,…