The Ecumenical Patriarch Bartholomeos I has called for the creation of a churches’ umbrella body in Europe to include Roman Catholics alongside Anglicans, Orthodox and Protestants. “It is only by engaging in…
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Conversations with Lubomyr Cardinal Husar – Towards a Post-Confessional Christianity By Antoine Arjakovsky, Foreword by Father Boris Gudziak, Rector of the Ukrainian Catholic University of Lviv. Ukrainian Catholic University Press, Lviv 2007…
A group of Orthodox clergy in Greece, led by three senior archbishops, have published a manifesto pledging to resist all ecumenical ties with Roman Catholics and Protestants. “The only way our communion…
The Vatican Information Service reports, 3 June 2009: In the Holy See Press Office this morning Cardinal Andrea Cordero Lanza di Montezemolo, archpriest of the papal basilica of St. Paul’s Outside-the-Walls, and…
The Vatican Information Service reports, 27 June 2009: This morning the Holy Father welcomed a delegation sent to Rome for the feast of Sts. Peter and Paul by His Holiness Bartholomew I,…
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…
The Vatican Information Service reports: In the Vatican this morning, Benedict XVI received His Beatitude Ignace Youssif III Younan, the new Catholic patriarch of Antioch of the Syrians, accompanied by various members…
From the Rorate Caeli blog (where more pictures are available): “His Beatitude Mar Ignatius Joseph III, Syrian Catholic Patriarch of Antioch celebrated a Patriarchal Divine Liturgy in the Syro-Antiochene Rite June 18,…
From the Vatican Information Service: At the end of today’s general audience, the Pope presented a Syriac Catholic delegation led by His Beatitude Ignace Youssif III Younan who, “on this his first…
On Sunday 7th. June, in the evening, His Beatitude Patriarch Gregorios III, together with four bishops, celebrated the Divine Liturgy at Mismiyeh, where Saint Paul is traditionally thought to have stayed during…