Tag: reconciliation

Reconciliation Through Education in Eastern Europe

Interview With Ivan and Mirela Cigic SARAJEVO, Bosnia and Herzegovina, 18th October, 2010 – thanks to Zenit.org. An education program sponsored by the Catholic Church in Bosnia and Herzegovina is contributing to…

Fr Taft calls on Catholic and Orthodox Churches to Restore Communion

The Roman Catholic and Eastern Orthodox churches should own up to their past misdeeds and work to restore communion, according to a Jesuit liturgical expert. Robert F. Taft  S.J., a former professor of…

Catholics & Orthodox Share Church again in Romania

ZALAU, Romania, JULY 7, 2010, with thanks to Zenit.org Byzantine Romanian Catholics celebrated on July 4 their first Mass in 62 years in the parish church of Bocsa, with what was described as a…

Patriarch Kirill of Moscow visits the graves of Katyn

Prime Ministers Putin and Puck in April 2010 at the Katyn Memorial The Russian Orthodox patriarch has visited the graves of the 22,000 Poles near Smolensk, who were massacred under the rule…

Cardinal Sandri appeals for the Church in the Holy Land

Here is the letter the prefect of the Congregation for Eastern Churches, Cardinal Leonardo Sandri, sent to the bishops regarding the collection for the Church in the Holy Land, which traditionally takes…

Orthodox-Catholic Accord in Poland, Ukraine, Belarus and Russia

Jonathan Luxmoore, for Ecumenical News International, reports: Poland’s Roman Catholic Church has launched its first dialogue with Russian Orthodox leaders, in a bid to rebuild relations between the two countries. “Although these…

Pope Benedict XVI praises the spiritual renewal of Albania

The Vatican Information Service reports, 4th December 2009: The Holy Father today received in audience His Beatitude Anastas, archbishop of Tirana, Durres and All Albania, who was accompanied by other representatives of…