Tag: usa

New Apostolic Visitor for the UK’s Syro-Malankara Catholics

Zenit reports, 14 July 2010: Pope Benedict XVI has erected an Apostolic Exarchate for the Syro-Malankara Catholic Church in the United States, and appointed Father Thomas Naickamparampil, 49, of the Major Archieparchy…

US Catholic-Orthodox dialogue drafting document on steps to unity

The United State Conference of Catholic Bishops’ and the Standing Conference of Canonical Orthodox Bishops’ North American Orthodox-Catholic Theological Consultation, chaired by Archbishop Gregory Aymond of New Orleans and Greek Orthodox Metropolitan Maximos…

How Byzantium, not Rome, can help preserve Pax Americana

We are grateful to our friends in SSJC YOungstown Chapter for this interesting article, in Light of the East, March-April 2010 By Edward Luttwak, November 2009 Economic crisis, mounting national debt, excessive…

Eastern Christian Media – Eparchy of Parma, Ohio

See the new museum of Carptho-Rusyn heritage and the Bishop Emil Mihalik Byzantine Catholic Cultural and Media Centre at the Cathedral of St John the Baptist in Parma, Ohio. Excellent resources, and…

Divine Liturgy by Peter Michaelides: New CD from Capella Romana

Completed in 1960, this outstanding choral setting of the Divine Liturgy is also one of the first to have been written in English. Greek-American composer Peter Michaelides perceptively combines elements of Byzantine…

Apostolic Visit of the Ecumenical Patriarch to the United States

His All Holiness the Ecumenical Patriarch, Bartholomew I, made an Apostolic Visitation to the United States October 20 to November 6 2009. A superb website has been created to commemorate the visit,…

US Catholic and Orthodox Bishops respond to the Ravenna Statement

Catholic Culture reports, 5 November 2009: Abandoning the diplomatic language typical of ecumenical pronouncements, the North American Orthodox-Catholic Theological Consultation, chaired by Archbishop Gregory Aymond of New Orleans and Greek Orthodox Metropolitan…