Tag: eastern catholic

The Man in the Iron Mask

Fr John Salter writes in Chrysostom, Pascha 2010:      Some weeks ago I was browsing through Donald Attwater’s book The Christian Churches of the East in Communion with Rome, when I came…

Pope Benedict addresses Eastern Churches Aid Agencies

This is a translation of the address Benedict XVI delivered today on receiving in audience members of the Assembly of Societies for Aid to Eastern Churches (ROACO).   [In Italian] Esteemed Cardinal, Venerated…

Bishop Rodrigo of Soddo – The Ethiopian Catholic Church

Bishop Rodrigo Mejia Saldarriaga SJ Zenit carries an interview by a journalist from Aid to the Church in Need (Marie-Pauline Meyer) with Bishop Rodrigo Mejia Saldarriaga SJ, apostolic vicar of Soddo, Ethiopia.…

US Priest at the head of the Pontifical Oriental Institute

WASHINGTON, D.C., MAY 17, 2010 thanks to Zenit.org Benedict XVI appointed Jesuit Father James McCann, head of the U.S. bishops’ conference Office to Aid the Church in Central and Eastern Europe, as…

Buses of Christian Students Bombed in Iraq

MOSUL, Iraq, MAY 3, 2010 thanks to Zenit.org Four people were killed and 171 were wounded Sunday when a bus convoy carrying Christian students to the University of Mosul was attacked. Chaldean…

Galliciano – Calabria Grecanico

Galliciano is located in the heart of the 9 Greek speaking villages of Calabria in the deep South, the extreme tip of the Italian boot, a place known as Aspromonte.The villages are…

Cargese – The Greek Village of Corsica

From Light of the East, May-June 2010, Newsletter of SSJC Youngstown Ohio Chapter, from a contact in Greece In 1673, 800 residents of the town of Itilos of the Mani district of…