Interview with SSJC Committee Member in Catholic World Report The Reverend Doctor Athanasius D. McVay specializes in the 20th-century history of Vatican diplomacy and of the Ukrainian Greek Catholic Church. He co-edited…
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Dr Adam A J De Ville writes: Nearly three years ago now, I published a book on Orthodoxy and papal primacy and, at risk of being immodest, have since felt more and…
Dear participants in the conference, Today the world expects from you decisive actions aimed at settling by peaceful means the sanguinary conflict in Syria. It is hard to overestimate the responsibility that…
The Ukrainian government of President Victor Yanukovych, who caused surprise a few months ago when he unilaterally withdrew Ukraine from a long-running process of effecting an “association” between with the European Union, in…
Thanks to Fr James Siemens, we are pleased to be able to carry in translation this critique from an Orthodox academic of the Moscow Patriarchate’s comments on events in Ukraine and their…
This post contains the strongly worded response from the Ecumenical Patriarchate on the Moscow Patriarchate’s Statement on Primacy in the Universal Church, itself a negative response to the Ravenna Statement of the…
This statement was approved by the Holy Synod of the Moscow Patriarchate of the Russian Orthodox Church earlier in 2013, but released on December 26th (Gregorian). When the Joint International Theological Commission of…
Commenting on the statement of Russian Christian Orthodox Church Patriarch Kirill that the EuroMaidan demonstrations are a threat to the spiritual unity of Ukrainians and Russians, the Patriarch of Kyiv and all Rus-Ukraine Filaret…
Longtemps j’ai baissé les yeux face à l’évolution de l’Eglise russe. J’identifiais le patriarcat de Moscou avec l’Eglise. Comme un enfant devant la nudité de son père, terriblement gêné par son indignité,…
The conflict between Greek Catholics and Orthodox in Western Ukraine has to be resolved from both sides, said Cardinal Kurt Koch, head of the Pontifical Council for Promoting Christian Unity. “Only by…