Tag: pope

Orthodox Patriarch wants Euro-body with Catholics, Protestants

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…

Greek clergy denounce ‘heresy of ecumenism’

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 tomb of St Paul

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…

Catholics and Orthodox called to a shared hope

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,…

Support the Christians of the Holy Land

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…

Syriac-Catholic Liturgy at Santa Maria Maggiore

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,…

Syriac Catholic Delegation to the Holy See

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…

Melkite Celebrations for the Closing month of the Year of Saint Paul

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…