Here is the letter the prefect of the Congregation for Eastern Churches, Cardinal Leonardo Sandri, sent to the bishops regarding the collection for the Church in the Holy Land, which traditionally takes…
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Zenit.org carries here the Lineamenta, or Guidelines, now agreed for the Special Synod on the Catholic Churches in the Middle East, which will take place in October 2010. The theme will be…
Archbishop Nikola Eterovic Preparations continue for next October’s special synod on the Middle East. The working document is nearing completion and emphasizes communion within the Church. The pre-synodal council met in late…
Last week on December 4th, Cardinal John Foley, the cardinal protector of the Equestrian Order of the Holy Sepulchre, delivered an address at a conference at the Norwegian School of Theology in…
It is not May that is “Mary’s Month”, but Advent. And it is no accident that we keep today in its first week the feast of St John of Damascus – St…
Hope for the Holy Land is a weekend festival – “Celebrating Palestinian Christianity” – taking place 28-29 November in Pimlico, at Holy Apostles Church Hall, Cumberland Street, London SW1V 4LY. There will…
The Friends of the Holy Land, a new Charity set up to support the Christians in the Holy Land, was launched last weekend, 14-15 November, in the two Archdioceses of Birmingham and…
Speaking in Westminster Cathedral Hall on September 8th 2009, the Latin Patriarch of Jerusalem, Archbishop Fouad Twal addressed these words to a meeting of Aid to the Church in Need: “Dear brothers…
His Beatitude Fouad Twal, Latin Patriarch of Jerusalem, will celebrate the Sung Mass at 5-30pm on the Feast of the Nativity of the Blessed Virgin Mary at Westminster Cathedral, 8th September 2009.…
The Vatican Information Service reports: This morning the Holy Father received participants in the annual general meeting of the Reunion of Organisations for Aid to the Oriental Churches (ROACO). The meeting had…