Fr John Salter, Chairman, writes in Chrysostom, All Saints November 2010: The death of the Grand Duchess Leonida brings to an end those members of the Romanov family who experienced at first hand…
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The cathedral of the Immaculate Conception in Smolensk that had been turned into a state archives department will now be turned over to the Catholic Church once more. The Russian agency Interfax…
Risu – August 17, 2010 The Holy Synod of the Russian Orthodox Church (ROC) at its session in the Kyiv Cave Monastery on July 26, 2010, decided to send the official delegation…
The Icon of the Smolenksy Saviour – Spas Smolensky on the Spasskaya Tower Thanks to Zenit – Two icons covered in plaster on towers of the Moscow Kremlin are being restored. It is…
Papal trip to Moscow and the number of parishes in the capital. Moscow (thanks to AsiaNews) – June 9, 2010 “The Catholic community in Russia is a minority and must…
Archbishop Antonio Mennini, up until now the Pope’s representative to the Russian Federation, has now been appointed the Holy See’s first apostolic nuncio to the country. The archbishop presented his letters of…
Fr John Salter writes in Chrysostom, Pascha 2010 In 2004 Pope John-Paul II sent Cardinal Walter Kasper, the President of the Pontifical Council for Promoting Christian Unity (Cardinal Cassidy’s successor),…
Prime Ministers Putin and Puck in April 2010 at the Katyn Memorial The Russian Orthodox patriarch has visited the graves of the 22,000 Poles near Smolensk, who were massacred under the rule…
Fr John Salter, Chairman, writes in Chrysostom for Pascha 2010: Following the death of Patriarch Alexis II the Holy Synod of the Russian Orthodox Patriarchal Church has elected Metropolitan Kyril of…
VATICAN CITY, JUNE 3, 2010 thanks to Zenit.org The forthcoming preparation of a Pan-Orthodox Council is a reason for joy, says a subsecretary of the Pontifical Council for Promoting Christian Unity. Msgr.…