Tag: eastern catholic

Cardinal Sandri: The Importance of the Melkite Church

CORDOBA, Argentina, SEPT. 2, 2010, thanks to Zenit.org Cardinal Leonardo Sandri is calling for a rediscovery of the contributions offered by the Melkite Church, particularly leading up to the October synod of…

Iraq to the Holy See: We Need our Christians

Habbeb Mohammed Hadi Ali Al-Sadr, the Ambassador of Iraq to the Holy See has asked Pope Benedict XVI “to encourage Christians to return to their country with a willing spirit for its…

Bishop Andreas Abouna – Eternal Memory

Bishop Andreas Abouna of Baghdad has died in Erbil, aged 67 having suffered from kidney failure. The bishop, who had served as priest in charge of Chaldean Catholics in Ealing, west London,…

New Apostolic Visitor for the UK’s Syro-Malankara Catholics

Zenit reports, 14 July 2010: Pope Benedict XVI has erected an Apostolic Exarchate for the Syro-Malankara Catholic Church in the United States, and appointed Father Thomas Naickamparampil, 49, of the Major Archieparchy…

Monsignor Enrico Benedetti (1874-1941)

Among History’s Vanished The archivist of the Oriental Congregation, Gianpaolo Rigotti’s recent article “Uomini e attività della Congregazione per la Chiesa Orientale tra i motu proprio Dei providentis (1917) e Sancta Dei…

Catholics & Orthodox Share Church again in Romania

ZALAU, Romania, JULY 7, 2010, with thanks to Zenit.org Byzantine Romanian Catholics celebrated on July 4 their first Mass in 62 years in the parish church of Bocsa, with what was described as a…

Ordinariates – Unprecedented and Unknown?

Fr Mark Woodruff, Vice-Chairman, writes in Chrysostom for Pascha 2010, about the Ordinariates to be set up in the Roman Catholic Church for Christians of Anglican background and patrimony   Western Uniatism? When…