Tag: russian

Catholic Church in Russia to be returned

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…

Moscow Restores Two Kremlin Wall Icons Hidden by the Soviets

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…

Russian Roman Catholics and Orthodox

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…

Russian Federation and Holy See: Full Diplomatic Relations

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…

NEW LATIN CATHOLIC CHURCH IN RUSSIA

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),…

Patriarch Kirill of Moscow visits the graves of Katyn

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…

THE NEW PATRIARCH OF MOSCOW AND ALL THE RUSSIAS

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…

Pan-Orthodox Council welcomed in Rome

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.…