A few notes before reading this fair-minded Reuters report. 1. The Byzantine Church of what is now Ukraine belonged to the Patriarchate of Constantinople and is not intrinsically Russian or dependent on…
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This is a most important interview to read, in conjunction with that on Al-Jazeera with Metropolitan Hilarion (in the next post on). Patriarch Sviatoslav emphasises that the relations between Ukrainian Catholics and…
Orthodox priests picking their way through the battlements in Ukraine is a symbol of how this church is caught in the middle of an unholy conflict. The majority of people on both…
05/15/2014 10:24, by Nina Achmatova Moscow (AsiaNews ) – The refusal of entry to the Moscow Patriarchate’s “foreign minister”, Metropolitan Hilarion of Volokolamsk, has raised yet another diplomatic row between Kiev and…
May 14, 2014 – George Weigel, First Things When we first met in April 2011, what initially impressed me about Sviatoslav Shevchuk was his almost preternatural calm: which was striking, in that,…
Metropolitan Hilarion of Volokolamsk, chairman of the Moscow Patriarchate’s Department for External Church Relations, was denied entry to Ukraine and had to return home, being told he is persona non grata. The…
While we are delighted that faithful Venerable Pope Paul will be raised to the altars as Blessed, we recall that under his Pontificate that the recognition of the patriarchate of the Ukrainian…
Please note that we post this only for information about a significant statesman’s perspective on Eastern Christianity. Please see the item on line (below) to read various responses. From the report, setting to one side his…
Ukrainian Catholics in Crimea Forced to Register…Goes Unreported » Politichicks.tv
With grateful acknowledgement to NR, we repost this characteristically penetrating analysis from George Weigel – even though we object to the repeated use of the contrived title “major-archbishop”, which is entirely a…