Tag: civil society

Vatican Publishes Book by Patriarch Kirill of Moscow

ROME, MAY 14, 2010 thanks to Zenit.org The Vatican Publishing House is publishing a book by Patriarch Kirill of Moscow and of All Russia. This gesture follows a similar move of the…

Zenit Interview with Patriarch Antonios of the Catholic Copts

Interview With Patriarch Antonios Naguib By Michaela Koller ROME, MARCH 30, 2010, thanks to Zenit.org The slaying of six Orthodox Christians leaving a Christmas Eve Mass in Egypt has wounded Christians’ sense…

How Byzantium, not Rome, can help preserve Pax Americana

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…

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…

French Seminary Trains for Orthodox Resurgence

Ecumenical News International reports from Epinay-sous-Senart, France, January 5th 2010: Inside a plain stone building that was once a Catholic convent in the center of town, a dozen black-robed seminarians struggle over…

The New Rome-Moscow Alliance to Fight Secularism in Europe

Archibishop Hilarion of Volokolamsk Robert Moynihan, the seasoned “Inside the Vatican” journalist who authors the blog, The Moynihan Report, detects in the recent establishment of full diplomatic relations between Russia and the…

Holy See and Russia Establish Full Diplomatic Relations

The Press Office of the Holy See Press Office released the following communique yesterday evening (3rd December 2009): This afternoon, 3 December 2009, His Holiness Benedict XVI received in audience Dimitri Medvedev,…

Pope Benedict thanks the Russian Orthodox Church

Zenit.org reports, December 3rd: Pope Benedict XVI is expressing gratitude to the Russian Orthodox Church and all those who collaborated in publishing a book with texts from the Pontiff on European culture.…