At the Mass at St Peter’s on the Solemnity of SS Peter & Paul, Pope Francis conferred the Pallium on new Archbishops. Present was Metropolitan John (Zizioulas) of Pergamon, heading a delegation…
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June 28, 2014, Domenico Agasso jr, Rome – Vatican Insider Yet another display of Francis’ tour de force. At today’s audience with the Delegation of the Ecumenical Patriarchate in the Vatican, the…
After the meeting of Pope Francis and Patriarch Bartholomew in Jerusalem, Metropolitan Nicholas of Mesogaia and Lavreotiki says no more “yelling with offensive tones against the West” (by which he means the…
Dr Eamon Duffy has summed up Mortalium Animos, Pius XI’s 1928 Encyclical On Religious Unity, which denounced ecumenism and false eirenicism, as an ultimatum to other Christians – Orthodox and post-Reformation Christians alike…
Vatican City, 26 June 2014 (VIS) – The Pope embraces all the Churches of the East and is close to their faithful, whose tears, fears and hopes are also ours, a sentiment…
21/05/2014 The Pope’s pilgrimage to the Holy Land marks the 50th anniversary of a crucial step towards Catholic-Orthodox unity. An historic meeting took place in Jerusalem in 1964 between Pope Paul VI…
Pope: Religious Persecution attacks peace and it belittles our dignity VATICAN CITY, June 20, 2014 (Zenit.org) – Here is the Pope’s address to the International Congress organized by the Department of Jurisprudence…
10 June, 2014 Pope Francis has named Cardinal Jozef Tomko, the retired Prefect of the Congregation for the Evangelization of Peoples, as his special envoy to mark the 25th anniversary of the…
ROME — While Pope Francis tries to strike a delicate balance Sunday on the Israeli/Palestinian front, recent elections in two other Middle Eastern nations have brought reminders not only of how intractable…
Your presence, dear Presidents, is a great sign of brotherhood which you offer as children of Abraham. It is also a concrete expression of trust in God, the Lord of history, who…