CRACOW. Four and a half months after Russia invaded Ukraine on the Orwellian pretext of displacing a “Nazi” regime — a regime that enjoys a democratic legitimacy absent from Russia for two decades — what […]
It’s tough to say how bad things are for Pope Francis, vis á vis Ukraine, but things are bad. Just this week, the leader of the Ukrainian Greek Catholic Church, Archbishop Sviatoslav Shevchuk, remarked to […]
I’ve been thinking recently about Robert Frost’s poem, “The Road Not Taken,” and its relationship to a deceased Russian Orthodox priest. As the Soviet Union was crumbling in 1990, two roads metaphorically diverged in a […]
Pope Francis and Russian President Vladimir Putin. / Mazur/catholicnews.org.uk/Kremlin.ru via Wikimedia (CC BY 4.0).
Vatican City, May 3, 2022 / 03:05 am (CNA).
Pope Francis has said that he will not visit Ukraine right now, but he would like t… […]
The aftermath of the Russian occupation of Bucha, Ukraine. / Private archive.
Brussels, Belgium, Apr 13, 2022 / 08:47 am (CNA).
European church leaders appealed this week to the presidents of Russia and Ukraine to observe an Easter ceasefire.Th… […]
“Everyone is free to express their opinions, but that statue [of St. Nicholas of Myra] is a sign of an historical event and historical events cannot be cancelled.” This is how Fr. Giovanni Distante, prior […]
Pope Francis speaks during an in-flight press conference from Malta, April 3, 2022. / Vatican Media.
Rome, Italy, Apr 3, 2022 / 15:00 pm (CNA).
Pope Francis was asked on Sunday whether he intended to travel to Ukraine and if he had a message fo… […]
Every war is a defeat for humanity, because men and women endowed with reason should be able to resolve their differences without mass violence. Reason, however, can be corrupted by ignorance, passion, ideology, pride, and […]
So there will be no meeting, at least for now, between Pope Francis and Russian Orthodox Patriarch Kirill of Moscow and All Russia. Kirill’s support for President Vladimir Putin’s brutal war in Ukraine has put […]
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 […]
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