26 May 2014 Below is the full text in English of the Common Declaration of Pope Francis and the Ecumenical Patriarch Bartholomew I, as it was posted on Radio Vaticana: 1. Like…
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The encounter between Francis and Bartholomew at the basilica of the Holy Sepulchre. But there’s rupture between the Greek Orthodox patriarchs of Jerusalem and Antioch. And open conflict between Constantinople and Moscow,…
A Protestant, rather than an ecumenical, take on ecumenism and the Papacy. NB the Catholic Church is not a member of the WCC because it does not accept the principle of legitimate…
International Theological Conference “The Knowledge of God: East and West. Dogmatic and Spiritual Dimensions” Keynote Speakers: Andrew Louth, Durham University Robin Darling Young, The Catholic University of America 9-10 October 2014…
The search for unity A look at the 1,000-year-old divide between the Eastern Orthodox, Roman Catholic churches — and what’s being done to bring them back together Adam A.J. DeVille OSV Newsweekly …
▶ Pope Francis prays with Head of the Armenian Church, Karekin II – YouTube Pope Francis prayed with the Patriarch of the Armenian Church, Karekin II, at the Vatican’s Redemptoris Mater Chapel.…
The references to martyrdom are in part diplomatic. They are to the mass persecution of ethnic and racial minorities in the dying years of the Ottoman Empire, of whom by far the…
Your Eminence, Esteemed members of the Study Group dedicated to the theology of Pope Benedict XVI, We welcome you with great joy to the City of Constantine during this radiant period of…
Our member and occasional guest contributor, Fr James Siemens of the Ukrainian Catholic parish in Cardiff, Wales, and also director of the Theotokos Institute, has written the following piece on his blog,…
Tuesday, April 1, 2014, by Father Ronald Roberson In an interview with the Italian newspaper Corriere della Sera published March 5, Pope Francis was asked about the significance of the meeting he…