Tag: eastern catholic

Orientale Lumen Conference XIII – Washinton

The Orientale Lumen XIII Conference is now all set for June 15-18, 2009 at the Pope John Paul II Cultural Center in Washington, DC on the theme of “Monastic Spirituality for Everyday…

Rome Meeting with Heads of Greek and Czech Orthodox Churches

February 27, 2009 – Catholic Culture reports: Cardinal Walter Kasper, president of the Pontifical Council for Promoting Christian Unity, offered an uncharacteristically pessimistic assessment of ecumenical dialogue with the Greek Orthodox Church…

Helping Christians in the Holy Land

Cardinal Leonardo Sandri, prefect of the Congregation for the Oriental Churches, has sent a letter to the bishops of the world encouraging them to participate in the collection for the Holy Land,…

The Eightieth Anniversary of Cum Data Fuerit

Protopresbyter Lawrence Barriger writes in Irenikon, the ecumenical review of the Monatery of Chevetogne, February 22, 2009 This March marks the eightieth anniversary of the Promulgation of the Vatican decree titled Cum…

Sunday of Orthodoxy & Blessing of Icons

Sunday 1st March saw the Melkite Greek Catholic parish of St John Chrysostom welcome the British Association of Iconographers to St Barnabas Church in Pimlico, Lonodn SW1, to celebrate the Sunday of…

Chrysostom – Newsletter 8, All Saintstide 2008

Father John Salter, Chairman of the Society, writes in the Chrysostom All Saintstide edition: Dear Members and Friends, Our membership is growing slowly but surely and we are hoping to recruit new…

The Reluctant to Accept and Reluctantly Accepted Bishop

Dr Athanasius McVay at his blog, Annales Ecclesiae Ucrainae, has posted a recent essay on Count Roman Alexander Sheptytsky, better known as Metropolitan Andrei Sheptytsky, the famous leader of the Ukrainian Greek…