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Orientale Lumen Conference XIII – Washinton

The Orientale Lumen XIII Conference is now all set for June 15-18, 2009 at the Pope John Paul II Cultural Center in Washington, DC on the theme of “Monastic Spirituality for Everyday…

Archbishop of Westminster

We are delighted to learn that the Holy Father Pope Benedict has appointed Archbishop Vincent Nichols of Birmingham, England, as metropolitan archbishop of Westminster and thus, in due course, the ex officio…

Rome Meeting with Heads of Greek and Czech Orthodox Churches

February 27, 2009 – Catholic Culture reports: Cardinal Walter Kasper, president of the Pontifical Council for Promoting Christian Unity, offered an uncharacteristically pessimistic assessment of ecumenical dialogue with the Greek Orthodox Church…

Holy Father’s Visit to the Holy Land

The programme of Benedict XVI’s apostolic trip to the Holy Land, due to take place from 8 to 15 May, has been announced. The Pope will depart from Rome’s Fiumicino airport at…

The Eightieth Anniversary of Cum Data Fuerit

Protopresbyter Lawrence Barriger writes in Irenikon, the ecumenical review of the Monatery of Chevetogne, February 22, 2009 This March marks the eightieth anniversary of the Promulgation of the Vatican decree titled Cum…

The Last King of Western Ukraine

Fr Athanasius McVay at his blog Annales Ecclesiae Ucrainae gives a life of Blessed Karl of Habsburg-Lorraine, Emperor and King, last Emperor of Austria-Hungary, examining the Habsburg empire’s embrace of Eastern and…

East-West Monastic Meeting VII, Minster Abbey, October 2006

The seventh UK Christian Monastic East-West Meeting in response to the Apostolic Letter Orientale Lumen took place at Minster Abbey, Kent, 15-18 September 2006, with the theme Chalcedon: A Council of Unity…

Orientale Lumen IX East, June 2005, Washington DC

Here is the link to OL IX, USA East – Structure of the Church, East and West The published proceedings can be ordered from Eastern Christian Publications here.