For years, the two leaders of the Russian Orthodox Church with whom Pope Francis met by videoconference on March 16 — Kirill, Patriarch of Moscow and All Rus’, and Metropolitan Hilarion, the Church’s chief ecumenical […]
Saint Sophia Cathedral in Kyiv, Ukraine, pictured on June 3, 2011. / Tanya Dedyukhina via Wikimedia (CC BY 3.0).
Rome Newsroom, Mar 15, 2022 / 13:35 pm (CNA).
In what can be considered an exercise of Vatican soft diplomacy, a group of 19 Cathol… […]
St. Sophia’s Cathedral in the Ukrainian capital Kyiv. / Ivan Sedlovskyi via Wikimedia (CC BY-SA 4.0).
Rome Newsroom, Mar 3, 2022 / 07:20 am (CNA).
Could St. Sophia’s Cathedral in the Ukrainian capital Kyiv be a Russian military target? Rumors o… […]
Pope Francis meets with Ecumenical Patriarch Bartholomew I at the Vatican, Oct. 4, 2021. / Vatican Media.
Vatican City, Nov 30, 2021 / 12:00 pm (CNA).
On the feast of St. Andrew, Pope Francis expressed hope that Catholics and Orthodox Christian… […]
Pope emeritus Benedict XVI, pictured in 2010. / Vatican Media.
Fribourg, Switzerland, Nov 8, 2021 / 05:00 am (CNA).
Pope emeritus Benedict XVI has paid tribute to an Orthodox leader on the 10th anniversary of his death.In a letter dated Oct. 11,… […]
Pope Francis meets with Ecumenical Patriarch Bartholomew I at the Vatican, Oct. 4, 2021. / Vatican Media.
Vatican City, Oct 22, 2021 / 04:00 am (CNA).
Pope Francis sent a letter Friday to Ecumenical Patriarch Bartholomew I expressing gratitude f… […]
Metropolitan Hilarion Alfeyev spoke with EWTN at the 52nd International Eucharistic Congress in Budapest, Hungary. / EWTN
Budapest, Hungary, Sep 8, 2021 / 18:01 pm (CNA).
Orthodox believers are called to pursue deification, or divine qualities, … […]
“Lord Jesus Christ, son of God, have mercy on me, a sinner.” This simple prayer is repeated continuously throughout Man of God by the film’s title character, Bishop Nektarios (Aris Servetalis), venerated as Saint Nektarios […]
John Anthony McGuckin is without doubt one of the world’s leading scholars of Eastern Christianity, patristics, and Church history. Having taught at Columbia and Union Seminary in New York City, he returned to his native […]
Whatever you think about the papacy, it has an unmatched zeal for, and institutional commitment to, Christian unity over the long haul. And nobody was more committed to this for twenty-seven years than the late […]
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