Tag: pope

US Catholic and Orthodox Bishops respond to the Ravenna Statement

Catholic Culture reports, 5 November 2009: Abandoning the diplomatic language typical of ecumenical pronouncements, the North American Orthodox-Catholic Theological Consultation, chaired by Archbishop Gregory Aymond of New Orleans and Greek Orthodox Metropolitan…

Bulgarian Orthodox Leader Affirms Desire for Unity

Bishop Tichon at the Church of SS. Vincenzo e Anastasio by the Trevi Fountain in October On October 22, Zenit reported the recent visit of Bishop Tichon of the Bulgarian Orthodox Church…

“Christ is the Head of the Church, not the Pope”

Metropolitan John of Pergamon, Co-Chairman of the Joint Commission for the Theological Dialogue between the Orthodox and the Catholics, at the 11th Plenary Session at Paphos, Cyprus. Left, Gennadios of Sassima. Right,…

Metropolitan John Zizioulas writes to the Metropolitans of Greece

In July we carried a report on the Metropolitans of the Orthodox Church of Greece, who had denounced the Ecumenical Patriarchate and its ‘heresy of ecumenism’, specifically the work of the dialogue…

Visit of Archbishop Hilarion of Volokolamsk to Pope Benedict

Robert Moynihan, writing September 21 2009 for Zenit, posed the question, Will the “Third Rome” Reunite With the “First Rome”? and concludes that the recent 5 day visit of Archbishop Hilarion Alfeyev…

Symeon the New Theologian: Divine Love opens us to others

The Vatican Information Service reports, 16 September 2009: In today’s general audience, which was held in the Paul VI Hall, the Pope focused his attention on Symeon the New Theologian, “an Eastern…

Faiths and Cultures in Dialogue Kraków, September 6–8, 2009

Valerie Chamberlain write: More than five hundred leaders of the world’s great religions, together with political leaders and scholars gathered in Kraków from September 6 to 8 at the invitation of the…