The category of the “West” has played a particularly significant role in the modern Eastern Orthodox imagination. It has functioned as an absolute marker of difference from what is considered to be…
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Thanks to Fr James Siemens, we are pleased to be able to carry in translation this critique from an Orthodox academic of the Moscow Patriarchate’s comments on events in Ukraine and their…
This post contains the strongly worded response from the Ecumenical Patriarchate on the Moscow Patriarchate’s Statement on Primacy in the Universal Church, itself a negative response to the Ravenna Statement of the…
This statement was approved by the Holy Synod of the Moscow Patriarchate of the Russian Orthodox Church earlier in 2013, but released on December 26th (Gregorian). When the Joint International Theological Commission of…
ROME, January 8, 2014 – Exactly half a century since the embrace in Jerusalem between Paul VI and the patriarch of Constantinople, Athenagoras, Pope Francis has announced that he too will go…
Longtemps j’ai baissé les yeux face à l’évolution de l’Eglise russe. J’identifiais le patriarcat de Moscou avec l’Eglise. Comme un enfant devant la nudité de son père, terriblement gêné par son indignité,…
The decision to meet in Jerusalem in the spring of 2014 is particularly important coming on the 50th anniversary of the historic embrace between Pope Paul VI and Ecumenical Patriarch Athenagoras. “We…
Edward Pentin of Terra Santa (the news service of the Custody of the Holy Land) writes: (Rome) – When Russian President Vladimir Putin visits Pope Francis on Nov. 25th, persecuted Christians in…
Read the report here: Metropolitan Hilarion attends conference on protecting the family : Department for External Church Relations of the Russian Orthodox Church The joint Communique from the Pontifical Council for the…
Upon his election to the chair of bishop of Rome in March of this year, Pope Francis announced his intention for a personal meeting with Ecumenical Patriarch Bartholomew of Constantinople in the…