Francis’s ‘who am I to judge?’ line may have cooled the ecumenical ardour of the Russian Orthodox hierarchy By Fr Mark Drew on Monday, 28 July 2014 A thoughtful and informed piece…
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Vatican City, 28 July 2014 (VIS) – Yesterday, Sunday, Cardinal Leonardo Sandri, prefect of the Congregation for the Oriental Churches, presided at the Divine Liturgy in the Cathedral of St. Paul the…
07/26/2014 “Forget us not!” says Mar Louis Sako in a message to Card Barbarin on the occasion of the march of solidarity with Iraqi Christians, held Saturday in Lyon. Baghdad (AsiaNews) –…
Fr Robin Gibbons, Thursday, July 24, 2014, ICN What is happening to the Christian communities in the Middle East is nothing less than martyrdom and destruction of their heritage and our ancient origins.…
July 17, 2014, Benjamin Mann My perspective on celibacy is an unusual one. Shortly after I became a Christian, at age 21, I began thinking about forgoing marriage – even though I…
A comparison of the Evangelical Protestant substitutionary view of the Atonement and the Orthodox view of salvation – illustrated with chairs. It is worth saying that the Evangelical position derives from St Anselm,…
Note the “God of God” that is not present in the Byzantine version but is in the Latin rite; no “homoousios” (“of one substance”), the repetition of phrases to attest the dogma…
“Amidst the controversy, it is often forgotten that the criticisms made against the rite received from the Roman Tradition also apply to the other traditions, first of all to the Orthodox: almost…
Sacred Mysteries: Russians who sought reunion with Rome felt the pinch, by Christopher Howse, 14 Jun 2014 Vladimir Putin hardly seems a pattern of holiness, but he has aligned himself with the…
Fr Robin Gibbons, July 14, 2014 My Patriarch, Gregorious III Laham, Greek Catholic Melkite Patriarch of Antioch (my own diocese) visited London this last weekend. He gave a talk at the Centre…