Tag: civil society
Professor Antoine Arjakovsky, Orthodox historian and author of “From Saint Petersburg to Moscow: Anatomy of the Russian Soul” (Salvator, 2018), writing for La Croix (7.8.2018) explains what is at stake with the…
Pragmatism towards Russian Orthodoxy is beginning to look like appeasement, says Fr Raymond J de Souza in the Catholic Herald Is Pope Francis, like Donald Trump, guilty of abject capitulation to Russia’s…
Muslims and Jews must combine to champion tolerance and stop the Isil-inspired hatred across the Middle East Christianity has been part of the essential fabric of the Middle East for two thousand…
We, Pope Francis, Ecumenical Patriarch Bartholomew and Archbishop Ieronymos of Athens and All Greece, have met on the Greek island of Lesvos to demonstrate our profound concern for the tragic situation of…
From First Things, 16th February 2105, with grateful acknowledgement. Like many Ukrainian Greco-Catholics, I am pleased that Pope Francis and Patriarch Kirill finally met in Havana February 12, even though the negotiations…
Myroslav Marynovych Anyone who remembers my article “When diplomacy prevails over principles of faith” knows that I was not very hopeful about the planned meeting between Pope Francis and the Patriarch…
The Russian patriarch, not Pope Francis, has the most reason to be satisfied after the Havana meeting and joint statement. Fr Mark Drew, Saturday 13th February, writes: The reported first words of Pope…
On February 12, Pope Francis and Patriarch Kirill, the leaders of two Churches, met at the Jose Marti International Airport in Havana. The meeting took place in a closed setting. It lasted…
Fr Mark Drew, our 2014 Christopher Morris Lecturer and Advisory Panel expert, writes, 12 February 2016 in the Catholic Herald: The Orthodox Church is not usually associated with rapid change and fast-moving…