UKRAINIAN-WARNING Mar-29-2012 Vatican doctrinal office warns Catholics against schismatic group By Carol Glatz Catholic News Service VATICAN CITY (CNS) — The Vatican’s Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith sounded a warning against four excommunicated priests who continue to claim they represent the Ukrainian Catholic Church, the largest of the Eastern churches in full communion […]
Metropolitan Hilarion shares ecumenical hopes
Date Posted: March 1, 2012
An Interview with Metropolitan Hilarion Posted on February 28, 2012 http://palamas.info/ Crisis Magazine: In a recent interview following your visit with Pope Benedict XVI at Castle Gandolfo, you mentioned how encouraged you are by the pontiff’s attention to the dialogue between the Catholics and the Orthodox. What, to your mind, are the greatest theological and […]
Recent developments involving Orthodox – Catholic relations
Date Posted: October 7, 2011
Wednesday, September 28, 2011, 12:07 PM In the last few days there have been a number of significant developments involving Orthodox – Catholic relations. First, Metropolitan Hilarion arrived in Rome last night for an anticipated visit with Pope Benedict, Cardinal Bertone, Cardinal Koch, and others. You can read the DECR report on the visit in […]
United States Conference of Catholic Bishops (USCCB) Secretariat for Ecumenical and Interreligious Affairs News
Date Posted: October 4, 2011
Link to PDF from the United States Conference of Catholic Bishops concerning news about Eastern Religions June2011 United States Conference of Catholic Bishops – Secretariat for Ecumenical and Interreligious Affairs Newsletter
Orientale Lumen XV Conference Audio
Date Posted: July 11, 2011
From June 20-23, 2011, the Society of St. John Chrysostom, Eastern Churches Journal, Eastern Christian Publications, and the Orientale Lumen Foundation held a popular and scholarly conference for lay men, lay women, and clergy entitled Orientale Lumen XV. The theme for the conference, held at the Washington Retreat House in Washington, D.C., was “Rome and […]
Russia Honors Former Nuncio
Date Posted: June 21, 2011
Patriarchate Lauds His Work at Strengthening Orthodox-Catholic Relations LONDON, JUNE 16, 2011 (Zenit.org).- Russia is honoring the papal nuncio who served eight years in Moscow (2002-2010), during a time a Russian Orthodox official has called a “very difficult moment” for the Orthodox and Catholic Churches. Archbishop Antonio Mennini, now the nuncio in Great Britain, was […]
Pope: Ecumenical Pessimism Is Lack of Trust in God
Date Posted: February 8, 2011
Says Holy Spirit’s Power Shouldn’t Be Underestimated ROME, JAN. 25, 2011 (Zenit.org).- Though Christians are still far from the unity that Jesus prayed for at the Last Supper, resignation and pessimism are a lack of trust in the Holy Spirit’s power, says Benedict XVI. The Pope affirmed this today as he closed the Week of […]
Post-USSR Catholic-Orthodox Relations Studied
Date Posted: February 8, 2011
Aid Agency Helping Both Churches in Russia WURZBURG, Germany, JAN. 20, 2011 (Zenit.org).- The relations between the Catholic and Orthodox Churches after the disintegration of the Soviet Union 20 years ago will be the topic of a March 19 congress in Wurzburg. Cardinal Kurt Koch, president of the Pontifical Council for Promoting Christian Unity, and Metropolitan […]
Catholic-Orthodox talks
Date Posted: January 6, 2011
Chief Vatican ecumenical official sees good prospects in Catholic-Orthodox talks December 17, 2010 In an interview with the AsiaNews service, the newly installed president of the Pontifical Council for Christian Unity said that the Catholic and Orthodox churches must resolve disagreements about papal authority in order to achieve full unity. The disagreement reflects a difference […]
Catholics, Orthodox Christians join in East-West pilgrimage
Date Posted: December 13, 2010
December 8th, 2010 By Archbishop George Niederauer Together with my good friend and brother in faith, His Eminence Metropolitan Gerasimos of the Greek Orthodox Metropolis of San Francisco, I was privileged to join 28 Orthodox and Catholics on an ecumenical pilgrimage to Rome, Athens and Constantinople (Istanbul), Nov.21-Dec. 2. Why a pilgrimage? Church reunion cannot […]