A few notes before reading this fair-minded Reuters report. 1. The Byzantine Church of what is now Ukraine belonged to the Patriarchate of Constantinople and is not intrinsically Russian or dependent on…
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This is a most important interview to read, in conjunction with that on Al-Jazeera with Metropolitan Hilarion (in the next post on). Patriarch Sviatoslav emphasises that the relations between Ukrainian Catholics and…
29 April 2014 Ecumenical Patriarch Bartholomew I in an interview with the Italian agency SIR said that today there are many issues that both churches must address together, Religion in Ukraine reports,…
Scroll down for the NCR interview. It always bears repeating that Metropolitan Hilarion is not speaking objectively, or in a spirit of dialogue. His job consists in: skillfully advancing the interests of the Patriarchal…
In 2011-12, in view of the rising numbers of European Eastern Catholics in diaspora in the United Kingdom the Romanian Church united with Rome (also known as the Romanian Greek Catholic Church)…
The positioning of the Moscow Patriarchate speaks for itself, except to say that it is calculated to provoke the Ukrainian Catholic Church, in directing its “grievance” to Rome, by treating it as a mere…
by Vladimir Rozanskij, Asia News, 21 march 2014 Kirill not present for Putin’s great speech to the Duma. While Russia follows in the footsteps of the empire of Ivan the Terrible, the…
March 14, 2014 – The announced 2016 council of Eastern Orthodox Churches is historic, but expectations should be modest – Fr. Cyril Hovorun An Assembly (Synaxis) of the Primates of the local…
by Gabriel S. Sanchez, 14 March 2014 Pope Francis’ Apostolic Exhortation, Evangelii Gaudium, raised eyebrows within and beyond the Catholic world for what the Sovereign Pontiff had to say on things economic.…
March 14, 2014 The announced 2016 council of Eastern Orthodox Churches is historic, but expectations should be modest Fr. Cyril Hovorun, Russian Orthodox Church (Moscow Patriarchate) An Assembly (Synaxis) of the Primates…