Archbishop Stephen of Ohrid (a see which historically was the patriarchate of the Bulgarian Empire, with which the See of Rome maintained semi-communion for the sake of the pastoral care of Byzantines in Southern…
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Tuesday May 20, 2014 New York On May 13, Archbishop Khajag Barsamian, Primate of the Diocese of the Armenian Church of America (Eastern), hosted an ecumenical gathering at the Diocesan Center in…
A compelling call from our friend, Fr James Siemens, for Roman Catholics to understand the churches of the East in their midst – Orthodox and Eastern Catholic alike: The Ancient Christian Tapestry:…
Moscow, Russia, May 15, 2014 / 04:01 am (CNA/EWTN News).- Despite its challenges, prison ministry in the Russian Federation is an important apostolate, changing lives and leading to conversions, a local Orthodox…
A few notes before reading this fair-minded Reuters report. 1. The Byzantine Church of what is now Ukraine belonged to the Patriarchate of Constantinople and is not intrinsically Russian or dependent on…
This is a most important interview to read, in conjunction with that on Al-Jazeera with Metropolitan Hilarion (in the next post on). Patriarch Sviatoslav emphasises that the relations between Ukrainian Catholics and…
Orthodox priests picking their way through the battlements in Ukraine is a symbol of how this church is caught in the middle of an unholy conflict. The majority of people on both…
05/15/2014 10:24, by Nina Achmatova Moscow (AsiaNews ) – The refusal of entry to the Moscow Patriarchate’s “foreign minister”, Metropolitan Hilarion of Volokolamsk, has raised yet another diplomatic row between Kiev and…
International Theological Conference “The Knowledge of God: East and West. Dogmatic and Spiritual Dimensions” Keynote Speakers: Andrew Louth, Durham University Robin Darling Young, The Catholic University of America 9-10 October 2014…
May 14, 2014 – George Weigel, First Things When we first met in April 2011, what initially impressed me about Sviatoslav Shevchuk was his almost preternatural calm: which was striking, in that,…