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As Pope Meets Putin, Expectations High for Syria Resolution

11:30AM EST 11/21/2013 Eric J. Lyman/RNS Eric J Lyman in Charisma News:   Next week’s summit between Pope Francis and Russian President Vladmir Putin may be the most important meeting between a…

Pope Francis: Eastern Patriarchs as Guardians of Communion

Authentic Synodal Governance of the Christian East Vatican City, 21 November 2013 (VIS) – At 10 a.m. today, in the Consistory Hall of the Apostolic Palace, the Holy Father received in audience…

Francis to Eastern Patriarchs at their Plenary Meeting

We must not resign ourselves to a Middle East without Christians Vatican City, 21 November 2013 (VIS) – “The memorable Vatican Council II also had the merit of explicitly mentioning that in…

Eastern Catholic Spiritual Renewal: The Byzantine Pope

In speaking once about the Church, the Great Melkite Patriarch, of Blessed Memory, Maximos IV made the criticism that Roman Catholics tend to, “limit their vision to the Latin discipline and Church,…