The Vatican Information Service reports: At 4.30 p.m. on 10 May 2009, Benedict XVI travelled by car to the area of Bethany beyond the Jordan, located 50 kilometres from Amman on the…
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Pope Benedict on Saturday said that the ancient living treasure of the traditions of the Eastern Churches enriches the universal Church and could never be understood simply as objects to be passively…
Address of His Beatitude Patriarch Gregorios III to His Holiness Pope Benedict XVI in the Melkite Greek Catholic Cathedral of St. George in Amman on 9 May 2009 during Vespers, on the…
The Vatican Information Service reports, 8 May 2000: This morning, during his flight from Rome to the Jordanian capital city of Amman, Benedict XVI granted a brief interview to journalists accompanying him…
The Vatican Information Service reports, 8 May 2009: The Holy Father departed from Rome‘s Fiumicino airport at 9.50 a.m. today. Following a four-hour flight, his plane landed at the Queen Alia airport…
Catherine Alexander continues to speak with Father Maximos of Holy Resurrection Romanian Catholic Monastery in Newberry Springs, CA about Eastern Catholic identity.
The Vatican Information Service reports, 6 May 2009, that the Pope at his weekly General Audience, recalling how on Friday he will begin his apostolic trip to the Holy Land, read out…
Fairouz, the legendary Lebanese singer, singing the 15th Antiphon at Matins of Good Friday in 1965 at a church in Beirut in Lebanon: Today he who hung the earth upon the waters…
English Catholics will recognise the melody of this hymn, to which we sing the poignant penitential and Passiontide hymn, God of Mercy and Compassion. It is a French traditional tune (Au sang…
The Centre of Eastern and Orthodox Christianity at the School Of Oriental and African Studies (SOAS), University of London, will host its sixth seminar on Saturday April 25th 2009 at the Brunei…