Released Monday, the draft proposal ostensibly respects human rights, freedom of religion and freedom of worship. Quotas will be set for Christians, women, the disabled and other groups, but no percentage is…
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“We are not resigned to imagine a Middle East without Christians,” Pope Francis told Gregorios III Laham, Patriarch of Antioch of the Greek-Melkites. On the feast day of Saint Andrew, a thought…
The pope emeritus spoke to the heads of the churches who visited him at the Mater Ecclesiae monastery after the plenary session of the Congregation for the Eastern Churches. Patriarch Sako invited…
A famous sermon delivered in 1900 by a leader of the Ukrainian Catholic Church has been classified as “extremist” literature, the Forum 18 news service reports. The sermon entitled “The True…
This report addresses the important question of the Eastern Catholic Patriarch’s direct and unmediated patriarchal jurisdiction for their faithful in the diaspora, regardless of the Latin Church whose primate is the Pope.…
Vatican City, November 21, 2013 (Zenit.org) | 203 hits At 10 o’clock this morning, Pope Francis met with the Patriarchs of the Oriental Catholic Churches and the Major Archbishops in the Hall…
Vatican City, November 21, 2013 (Zenit.org) | 188 hits At 12 o’clock today, in the Clementine Hall of the Apostolic Vatican Palace, Pope Francis received participants of the Plenary Assembly of the Congregation for…
Authentic Synodal Governance of the Christian East Vatican City, 21 November 2013 (VIS) – At 10 a.m. today, in the Consistory Hall of the Apostolic Palace, the Holy Father received in audience…
We must not resign ourselves to a Middle East without Christians Vatican City, 21 November 2013 (VIS) – “The memorable Vatican Council II also had the merit of explicitly mentioning that in…
This superb article by Robert Arakaki is an excellent treatment of worship as understood by Christians – and these days, maybe ONLY by Orthodox Christians. Within the past few decades, a new…