Faith to Faith: Russian Patriarch ending landmark Armenia visit
ArmeniaNow.com Patriarch of Moscow and All Russia Kirill is completing today his three-day visit to Armenia during which he and his Armenian counterpart accentuated the strong bonds between the two...
View ArticleVatican Hosts Russian Concert
Pope John-Paul II, long before the fall of Communism said that the spiritual renewal of Western Europe would come from Russia. These were prophetic words as it turns out, but at the time many culture...
View ArticleA Holy Alliance between Rome and Moscow Is Born
Again, almost incomprehensible just a few short years ago. Highlight: “The common objective: the “new evangelization” of Europe. A delegation of the Russian Orthodox Church visits the Vatican, which...
View ArticleProgressive Christianity’s habit of ‘Embracing the Tormenters’
The Institute on Religion & Democracy’s Faith McDonnell: Conducting “truth commissions” to denounce American armed forces and organizing divestment campaigns to cripple Israel are vital issues to...
View ArticleDr. Peter Bouteneff: Speaking the truth in love
The faculty of St. Vladimir’s website will be posting occasional essays on topics of current events. In this essay, Dr. Peter Bouteneff, Associate Professor of Systematic Theology, discusses ecumenical...
View ArticleMet. Hilarion’s speech at the Nicean Club Dinner (full version)
Address by Metropolitan Hilarion of Volokolamsk Chairman of the Moscow Patriarchate’s Department for External Church Relations to the Annual Nicean Club Dinner (Lambeth Palace, 9 September 2010) Speech...
View ArticleMetropolitan Hilarion of Volokolamsk: Allegations about a ‘breakthrough’ in...
See my notes in the post immediately preceding this one. Source: As has been stressed by the chairman of the Moscow Patriarchate’s department for external church relations, Metropolitan Hilarion of...
View ArticleMoscow Patriarchate freezes ecumenical journey: Pope never commanded in the East
More on the clarification from Moscow. Source: Asia News A statement from Metropolitan Hilarion, chairman of the Department for External Relations of the Patriarchate, challenges the very foundations...
View ArticleEastern tradition of canon law links Catholic, Orthodox churches, Pope notes
I’m not sure if the Pope is speaking of the Byzantine Rite Catholics or the Orthodox Churches here, but the admission of a distinctive tradition is good. Source: Catholic Culture The Eastern Catholic...
View ArticleMet. Hilarion: Patriarch’s meeting with Pope getting nearer
Source: Orthodox Church Media Network November 26, 2010 Moscow, November 26, Interfax – The meeting between the Moscow Patriarch and the Pope is getting nearer each day, the Russian Orthodox Church...
View ArticleBartholomew I: We will continue to dialogue with the Pope and Islam
HT: Byzantine TX. Source: Asia News Istanbul (AsiaNews) – On the eve of the holiday season, Bartholomew I delivered a major address before an highly qualified audience from the Orthodox world,...
View ArticleA Greek Orthodox Response to Rabbi David Rosen
This article rebuts Jewish charges of anti-Semitism in the the Greek Orthodox Church after Greek Bishop blamed Jews for Greece’s financial collapse in public comments last month. I wish it went to an...
View ArticleMet. Hilarion: An Alliance of Faith (Orthodox – Catholic Cooperation)
Highlight: Our challenges “…are first and foremost the challenges of a godless world, which is equally hostile today to Orthodox believers and Catholics, the challenge of the aggressive Islamic...
View ArticleHuman Events. The Unseen Riots of London: American media tries very hard not...
This is what the collapse of the welfare state looks like. Source: Human Events For the past four days, the city of London has been in flames. The UK Telegraph reports over 20,000 calls to the police...
View ArticleA Russian in Rome [VIDEO]
Source: Inside Vatican The end of state atheism in Russia in 1991 and the return to Christian faith in that country, at least in a modest way, in the years since — opinions on the extent of Russia’s...
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