Tag: eastern catholic

Who are Eastern Catholics? – Part Two

Catherine Alexander continues to speak with Father Maximos of Holy Resurrection Romanian Catholic Monastery in Newberry Springs, CA about Eastern Catholic identity.

Who are Eastern Catholics? – Part One

Catherine Alexander speaks with Father Maximos of Holy Resurrection Romanian Catholic Monastery in Newberry Springs, CA about Eastern Catholic identity.

Papal Greetings to the People of the Holy Land

The Vatican Information Service reports, 6 May 2009, that the Pope at his weekly General Audience, recalling how on Friday he will begin his apostolic trip to the Holy Land, read out…

St John Damascene, a Leading Figure of Byzantine Theology

The Vatican Information Service writes, 6 May 2009: In his general audience held this morning in St. Peter’s Square, the Pope focused his remarks on St. John Damascene (675-749), “a leading figure…

Germanus of Constantinople, Defender of Holy Images

The Vatican Information Service reports: During his general audience this morning Benedict XVI dedicated his catechesis to St. Germanus of Constantinople, who “played an important role in the complex history of the…

Pre-Ecumenical Uniates — Ecumenical Eastern Catholics

A conference given at the Biennial Ecumenical Marian Pilgrimage, Walsingham, 19 March 2009 This presentation is historical, both in its method and in the very fact of it being the first of…

Fairouz sings the Passion of Christ

Fairouz, the legendary Lebanese singer, singing the 15th Antiphon at Matins of Good Friday in 1965 at a church in Beirut in Lebanon: Today he who hung the earth upon the waters…

Christianity in Iraq Seminar Day VI

The Centre of Eastern and Orthodox Christianity at the School Of Oriental and African Studies (SOAS), University of London, will host its sixth seminar on Saturday April 25th 2009 at the Brunei…

Letter of His Beatitude Patriarch Gregorios III for Pascha 2009

Paul, Apostle of the Resurrection “..You are risen with Christ” (Colossians 3:1) From Gregorios, servant of Jesus Christ, by the grace of God, Patriarch of Antioch and of All the East, of…