By Archpriest Andriy Chirovsky (First Things, 16 February 2016) Like many Ukrainian Greco-Catholics, I am pleased that Pope Francis and Patriarch Kirill finally met in Havana February 12, even though the negotiations…
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A week on for the encounter between the Pope and the head of the Russian Orthodox Church, there have been several telling responses from Ukrainian Catholics from Ukraine itself, and North America. We…
In around 1515, the Monk Filofei of Pskov wrote to Grand Duke Vasily III of Moscow calling him to the high office o Emperor (Tsar) of the Third and Final Rome. The…
From First Things, 16th February 2105, with grateful acknowledgement. Like many Ukrainian Greco-Catholics, I am pleased that Pope Francis and Patriarch Kirill finally met in Havana February 12, even though the negotiations…
Dr Adam DeVille, in Catholic World Report, 13 February, writes: Pope Benedict XVI was, and is, known for playing the piano. Russian Orthodox Metropolitan Hilarion Alfeyev, the chief architect of Friday’s Cuban…
Ahead of the historic meeting of His Holiness Pope Francis and Patriarch Kirill of Moscow, Dr Myroslav Marynovych, Vice-Rector of the Ukrainian Catholic University, Lviv, Ukraine, and – as a supposed dissident…
The Russian Army tries to force Eastern Catholics of Pratulin to abandon communion with the Apostolic See of Rome The Maidan revolution of dignity was supported by all Churches and religious groups of…
Moscow, July 31, Interfax – Metropolitan Hilarion of Volokolamsk, head of the Moscow Patriarchate Department for External Church Relations has expressed concern over the current international situation, claiming that the world has…
Francis’s ‘who am I to judge?’ line may have cooled the ecumenical ardour of the Russian Orthodox hierarchy By Fr Mark Drew on Monday, 28 July 2014 A thoughtful and informed piece…
Further to Metropolitan Hilarion’s recognition of the Donetsk People’s Republic and its terrorists as legitimate “authorities”, news of another series of atrocities at its hands, this time directed against fellow Christians – non-Moscow Orthodox…