Jan 28, 2011 FIRST THINGS As you may be aware, several Christian churches in Kirkuk, Mosul, Basra, and Baghdad, as well as throughout the rest of Iraq, cancelled their festivities this past…
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We are grateful to our friends in SSJC YOungstown Chapter for this interesting article, in Light of the East, March-April 2010 By Edward Luttwak, November 2009 Economic crisis, mounting national debt, excessive…
It is not May that is “Mary’s Month”, but Advent. And it is no accident that we keep today in its first week the feast of St John of Damascus – St…
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…
This will be held on 1st October 2009 at the Ukrainian Catholic Cathedral of the Holy Family in Exile, Duke Street, Mayfair, London, W1. The entrance to Duke Street is opposite Selfridges…
The Ecumenical Patriarch Bartholomeos I has called for the creation of a churches’ umbrella body in Europe to include Roman Catholics alongside Anglicans, Orthodox and Protestants. “It is only by engaging in…
The Vatican Information Service reports. 27 May 2009: In this morning’s general audience, the Pope continued with his series of catechesis on the great writers of the Eastern and Western Church in…
The Vatican Information Service reports, 27 May 2009: In this morning’s general audience, the Pope continued with his series of catechesis on the great writers of the Eastern and Western Church in…
Pope Benedict prays in the Holy Sepulchre on visiting the Greek Orthodox Patriarch of Jerusalem and leaders of other Christian Churches and communities in Jerusalem at the close of his pastoral visit…
The Vatican Information Services reports, 8 May 2009: At 9.45 a.m. today, Benedict XVI travelled to the town of Madaba, 19 kilometres from Mount Nebo in Jordan. The site is famous for…