When Pope Francis and Patriarch Bartholomew of Constantinople meet this month in Jerusalem, the buzz probably will be about two milestones from the past: 1054, when Eastern and Western Christianity split, and…
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2014-05-09 Pope Francis met with the bishops of Ethiopia and Eritrea, in Rome for their “ad limina apostolorum” visit. The bishops gave the Pope four Ethiopian crosses, as well as liturgical vestments,…
On 8 May 2014, an historic conference took place in Geneva, Switzerland, where seven senior religious and secular leaders from Syria’s largest Christian churches spoke in a unified voice on the situation in their…
April 19, 2014 For the first time since 1922, the Greek Orthodox Church of Agia Fotini was granted the permission to hold its Good Friday Epitaphio Service outside on a public street…
There’s been a lot of talk lately about the Orthodox understanding of divorce and remarriage. The Holy Father Pope Francis has aired it; recently he invited Cardinal Walter Kasper to give a…
Friday, April 11, 2014, Adam DeVille Be Sealed! – Chrismation: A Primer for Catholics This semester, in separate classes with both undergraduates and graduates, I have been able to use an old…
Antelias – 29 March 2014. On Saturday morning, Cardinal Kurt Koch, accompanied by his staff from the Pontifical Council for Promoting Christian Unity and the Apostolic Nuncio to Lebanon Gabriele Giordano Caccia, visited…
Stayed With Christians Unable to Evacuate Homs Rome, April 07, 2014 (Zenit.org) A priest helping Christians find shelter in Syria’s Old City of Homs has been murdered. Dutch Jesuit Father Frans van…
Your Eminence Peter Cardinal Erdö, President of the Bishops Conference of the Roman Catholic Church in Hungary; venerable and beloved members of the Conference, “Rejoice in the Lord, and be strengthened in…