July 17, 2014, Benjamin Mann My perspective on celibacy is an unusual one. Shortly after I became a Christian, at age 21, I began thinking about forgoing marriage – even though I…
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On 6 June 2014, Metropolitan Hilarion of Volokolamsk, chairman of the Moscow Patriarchate’s Department for External Church Relations (DECR), met with the Patriarch of Antioch and All the East of the Syrian…
Cairo (Agenzia Fides) – A committee of inquiry called to outline a draft law to regulate and ensure clear legal procedures concerning the building of churches and Christian places of worship on…
A comparison of the Evangelical Protestant substitutionary view of the Atonement and the Orthodox view of salvation – illustrated with chairs. It is worth saying that the Evangelical position derives from St Anselm,…
June 16, 2014, Brett R. McCaw A conversation with His Beatitude Lubomyr Cardinal Husar about the Maidan movement and relationships between Catholics and Orthodox – and the Roman Catholic Vatican’s attitude to…
“Amidst the controversy, it is often forgotten that the criticisms made against the rite received from the Roman Tradition also apply to the other traditions, first of all to the Orthodox: almost…
Sacred Mysteries: Russians who sought reunion with Rome felt the pinch, by Christopher Howse, 14 Jun 2014 Vladimir Putin hardly seems a pattern of holiness, but he has aligned himself with the…
Fr Robin Gibbons, July 14, 2014 My Patriarch, Gregorious III Laham, Greek Catholic Melkite Patriarch of Antioch (my own diocese) visited London this last weekend. He gave a talk at the Centre…
08/07/2014, Vatican Radio) “The situation was already bleak but now it has got a whole deal worse. For the first time the ever, the bishops have raised the doomsday scenario of an…
The Russian president is neither a Tsar or a Communist, but his foreign policy shows little difference from either By Fr Alexander Lucie-Smith on Tuesday, 1 July 2014 The continuities of history…