Tag: poland

Visit of Icon of Our Lady of Czestochova to Westminster

Homily of Bishop Alan Hopes, Auxiliary Bishop of Westminster, on the occasion of the visit of the Icon on its pilgrim journey from across Russia and Siberia to Portugal. In London the…

Anglican “Uniates”?

By Fr John Salter, Chairman – in Chrysostom, Pascha 2012 Some twelve years ago I was sitting sipping coffee in the common room of the Melkite Greek Catholic seminary at Harissa, on top…

Diptychs: Orthodox Unity and Ecclesiology

Sophia Kishkovsky of ENI News reports, 22 March 2011     Diptychs, an arcane liturgical term that describes the order in which Orthodox churches commemorate each other at their services, is one…

Eternal Memory: Prebendary Gerard Irvine

Fr John Salter writes in the Pascha 2011 edition of Chrysostom: When I was looking for a second Anglican curacy in 1966 I was interviewed by Father Irvine at his vicarage at…

Catholic Church in Russia to be returned

The cathedral of the Immaculate Conception in Smolensk that had been turned into a state archives department will now be turned over to the Catholic Church once more. The Russian agency Interfax…

Monsignor Enrico Benedetti (1874-1941)

Among History’s Vanished The archivist of the Oriental Congregation, Gianpaolo Rigotti’s recent article “Uomini e attività della Congregazione per la Chiesa Orientale tra i motu proprio Dei providentis (1917) e Sancta Dei…

Patriarch Kirill of Moscow visits the graves of Katyn

Prime Ministers Putin and Puck in April 2010 at the Katyn Memorial The Russian Orthodox patriarch has visited the graves of the 22,000 Poles near Smolensk, who were massacred under the rule…

Pope’s Angelus Address at Eleftheria Centre in Nicosia

Dear brothers and sisters in Christ, At the midday hour it is the Church’s tradition to turn in prayer to the Blessed Virgin Mary, joyfully recalling her ready acceptance of the Lord’s…