The Metropolitan of Pergamon Ioannis Zizioulas [the theologian John Zizioulas] has raised alarm bells about divisions between the Orthodox Churches. Some have reduced Christian unity to an alliance between religious hierarchies formed in…
Tag: ecclesiology
We are most grateful to a friend of the Society’s for translating this important and closely reasoned answer to the Moscow Statement in favour of the present efforts of the Joint International…
On Tuesday, December 9, 2013, the Synod of Bishops of the Russian Orthodox Church Outside of Russia, during a regular meeting, deliberated on the results of the previous September’s Assembly of Canonical…
Congratulations to Archbishop Vincent of Westminster, now Cardinal Nichols of the Holy Roman Church. In his service of the Universal Church, and of the Petrine ministry of the Holy Father as Bishop…
Cairo (Agenzia Fides) – “The Church towards a better future”. This is the title of the Synod of Bishops of the Coptic Orthodox Church in Cairo to be held from February 17…
Pope Francis’ Ecumenism Andrea Tornielli vatican city 28 January 2014 Almost a year after Francis’ election and with the Week of Prayer for Christian Unity at an end, it is now possible…
Dr Adam A J De Ville writes: Nearly three years ago now, I published a book on Orthodoxy and papal primacy and, at risk of being immodest, have since felt more and…
Our friend Dr Adam De Ville writing in CWR for the Week of Prayer for Christian Unity, asks, “What Needs to Change for East-West Unity to Happen?” Read online here: Roman Rights…
On January 15, 2014, the Russian Orthodox Church Outside Russia (ROCOR) clarified its vision for the Assembly of Canonical Orthodox Bishops of North and Central America. This came in the form of…
The view from an Orthodox priest: In my previous post, I mentioned some of the internal problems besetting the Orthodox Church, causing dysfunction (which I termed “implosion”). I noted how it affects…