Tag: roman catholic

The Greek Deacon of the Papal Rite of Mass

Father Athanasius McVay, our Rome correspondent and a priest of the Ukrainian Greek Catholic Church, has recently published an essay on the Eastern rite deacon at the Papal rite of Mass in…

St Augustine in Eastern and Western Tradition

The Vatican Information Service reports, 4th September 2009: Made public yesterday afternoon was a Message from Benedict XVI to Cardinal Walter Kasper, president of the Pontifical Council for Promoting Christian Unity, and…

Sir Patrick Maitland, Baronet, 17th Earl of Lauderdale

Fr John Salter writes: Patrick Lauderdale belonged to that almost vanished breed the aristocratic Anglo-Catholic layman, of whom Viscount Halifax one of the initiators of the Malines Conversations, to explore Anglican/Roman Catholic…

The Re-founding of the Society in 1926

The Society of St. John Chrysostom was originally founded in England at the end of the nineteenth century. The original association died out and was re-founded in 1926 under the patronage of…

Ukraine: Grass Roots Ecumenism

A LEADING Latin Rite Bishop in Ukraine has reported that relations with the Russian Orthodox are getting increasingly warmer. Speaking to Aid to the Church in Need during a visit to the…