In July we carried a report on the Metropolitans of the Orthodox Church of Greece, who had denounced the Ecumenical Patriarchate and its ‘heresy of ecumenism’, specifically the work of the dialogue…
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Bishop Michel d’Herbigny SJ, the Holy See’s Trojan Horse into Russia In 1925 Pope Pius XI created the Pontifical Commission Pro Russia, which was responsible for all matters concerning Catholics of all…
Robert Moynihan, writing September 21 2009 for Zenit, posed the question, Will the “Third Rome” Reunite With the “First Rome”? and concludes that the recent 5 day visit of Archbishop Hilarion Alfeyev…
The Religious Information Service of Ukraine reports from Lviv, Friday, 04 September 2009: In an interview with RISU, Bishop Hlib (Lonchyna), apostolic administrator of the Ukrainian Catholic Exarchate in Great Britain, explained…
Recently elected to the Governing Committee of the ICMC, His Beatitude Patriarch Gregorios III was keen to attend its meeting in Geneva on 13 July. Identity and work of ICMC Responding to…
His Holiness was not a Russian, but an Estonian. He was born Alexis Michaelovitch Ridiger, on 23 February 1929 (Old Style), the son of a priest of the Estonian Orthodox Church, and…
Fr John Salter writes: Patriarch Stephanos II died earlier this year in the Italian hospital in Cairo. He was born in Sheik Zein el-Dine, in the Eparchy of Sohag on 16th January…
Although the Oriental Institute, just near Santa Maria Maggiore in Rome, forms part of the Gregorian Consortium with the Gregorian University and the Biblical Institute, it is academically and financially independent of…
The Society of St. John Chrysostom was originally founded in England at the end of the nineteenth century. The original association died out and was re-founded in 1926 under the patronage of…
The Ecumenical Patriarch Bartholomeos I has called for the creation of a churches’ umbrella body in Europe to include Roman Catholics alongside Anglicans, Orthodox and Protestants. “It is only by engaging in…