Today is the 70th anniversary of the martyrdom on St Maria of Paris. Elizaveta Pilenko, now known as Saint Maria...
Posted by Jim Forest on Tuesday, March 31, 2015
ECB: Mother, Martyr, Saint: On the Death of Maria Skobtsova
Today is the 70th anniversary of the martyrdom on St Maria of Paris. Elizaveta Pilenko, now known as Saint Maria...
Posted by Jim Forest on Tuesday, March 31, 2015
МИТРОПОЛИТ ВОЛОКОЛАМСКИЙ ИЛАРИОН ПОСЕТИЛ КАЗАНСКУЮ ДУХОВНУЮ СЕМИНАРИЮ28 марта 2015 года председатель Отдела внешних це...
Posted by Митрополит Иларион Алфеев (Metropolitan Hilarion) on Monday, March 30, 2015
Fr. Cantalamessa's 5th Lenten Homily 2015East and West Before the Mystery of Salvation
Posted by Zenit News Agency on Friday, March 27, 2015
Archbishop Georg Ganswein: 'Pope Francis is Full of Surprises'In Interview with La Nacion's Elisabetta Pique, Prefect of the Pontifical Household Says Benedict XVI "Impressed" By Successor
Posted by Zenit News Agency on Monday, March 30, 2015
Pope Francis said the life of St Teresa of Avila, characterized by “total self-giving to God,” is a “great treasure”...
Posted by Vatican Radio - English Section on Saturday, March 28, 2015
Pope: Saint Teresa of Avila is "A Teacher of Prayer"Sends Message to Discalced Carmelites for the Fifth Centenary of Spanish Mystic's Birth
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Pope Begins 'Prayer for Peace With Saint Teresa'Address Letter to Order of Discalced Carmelites That Will Be Published on March 28th
Posted by Zenit News Agency on Thursday, March 26, 2015
Kyiv-Halych was present for the book launch, along with Bishop Borys Gudziak of Paris and Bishop Hlib Lonchyna of...
Posted by Vatican Radio - English Section on Saturday, March 28, 2015
Posted by Vatican Radio - English Section on Sunday, March 29, 2015
Pope Francis celebrated Palm Sunday Mass in St. Peter's Square.His homily is at the link: http://en.radiovaticana.va/news/2015/03/29/pope_francis_palm_sunday_homily/1133038
Posted by Vatican Radio - English Section on Sunday, March 29, 2015
Each of you knows that when we do not have any particular needs, when everything is just fine, our prayer begins to grow...
Posted by Orthodoxy and the World on Sunday, March 29, 2015
If we were in that mood we would, when we come to the doors of the church, be, however little, like Mary of Egypt. We...
Posted by Orthodoxy and the World on Sunday, March 29, 2015
Pope Francis has sent his condolences upon learning of the death of the Patriarch of the Assyrian Church of the East, Mar Dinkha IV.
Posted by Vatican Radio - English Section on Saturday, March 28, 2015
The Patriarch of the Assyrian Church of the East, His Holiness Mar Dinkha IV, died on Thursday at the age of 79.
Posted by Vatican Radio - English Section on Friday, March 27, 2015
Assyrian Patriarch Passes Away in MinnesotaIraq Native Patriarch Dinkha IV Brought Stability, Peace to a Church in Turmoil
Posted by Zenit News Agency on Friday, March 27, 2015
Pope Francis Sends Condolences for Death of Assyrian Patriarch of the EastRecalls His Holiness Mar Dinkha IV's Enduring Commitment to Improving Relations Among Christians
Posted by Zenit News Agency on Monday, March 30, 2015
On Friday morning Pope Francis attended the Lenten sermon of the preacher of the Pontifical Household, Franciscan Father...
Posted by Vatican Radio - English Section on Friday, March 27, 2015
On Friday morning the preacher of the Pontifical Household, Franciscan Father Raniero Cantalamessa gave his fourth Lenten sermon in the Mater Redemptoris chapel in the Vatican.
Posted by Vatican Radio - English Section on Friday, March 27, 2015
Brandon writes: I thought I would share a couple pictures from my home parish in Pennsylvania! I always love seeing...
Posted by Orthodox Christian Network on Friday, March 27, 2015
Pope Francis on Thursday erected the new Eparchy (diocese) of St John Chrysostom of Gurgaon and a new Apostolic...
Posted by Vatican Radio - English Section on Thursday, March 26, 2015
A new Dominican saint . . . Praised be Jesus Christ!
Posted by Western Dominican Vocations on Tuesday, March 24, 2015
The student brothers of the Provinces of France and England meet at Oxford. Please pray for Dominican vocations and for all our brothers in formation throughout the world.
Posted by Western Dominican Vocations on Tuesday, March 24, 2015
Vocation Directors, Novice Masters, and Student Masters from the four U.S. Provinces, England, Ireland, and...
Posted by Western Dominican Vocations on Sunday, March 22, 2015
Vocation Directors of the four U.S. Provinces and the Provinces of England, Ireland and Argentina at the Interprovincial Formators' Meeting.
Posted by Western Dominican Vocations on Friday, March 20, 2015
Η προσευχή και η νηστεία απαραίτητα στοιχεία, εφόδια στην πνευματική πορεία μας προς την Βασιλεία του Θεού.
Posted by Orthodox Christian Network on Tuesday, March 24, 2015
I believe, help my disbelief! Lord have mercy on me!
Posted by Orthodox Christian Network on Wednesday, March 25, 2015
The persecution of Christians is compared to the Holocaust. How long will the persecution of Christians in the Middle East continue?
Posted by Orthodox Christian Network on Thursday, March 26, 2015
GENERAL AUDIENCE: On Praying for the Synod on the Family"All the Pope, Cardinals, Bishops, priests, men and women...
Posted by Zenit News Agency on Wednesday, March 25, 2015
Pope At General Audience: Synod of Bishops Needs Prayers, Not GossipLeads Faithful in Prayer for Synod on the Family in...
Posted by Zenit News Agency on Wednesday, March 25, 2015
Here is the prayer recited by Pope Francis at today's General Audience for the Synod on the Family.
Posted by Zenit News Agency on Wednesday, March 25, 2015
Quote for March 24th"He who trusts himself is lost. He who trusts in God can do all things."- St Alphonsus Liguori
Posted by Zenit News Agency on Tuesday, March 24, 2015
Pope Francis To Review Encyclical on Ecology This WeekPontiff's Schedule Expected to Be Light, Says Vatican Spokesman
Posted by Zenit News Agency on Monday, March 23, 2015
AD: I was of course especially interested in your chapter on Petrine Primacy, and I genuinely appreciated your direct but courteous disagreement (fn. 26, p.31) with my proposal (in Orthodoxy and the Roman Papacy: Ut Unum Sint and the Prospects of East-West Unity) for a permanent ecumenical synod, which I was modeling more on the "synodos endemousa" of Constantinople than the idea of a permanent ecumenical council which, following Zizioulas (with whom I agree) is indeed an event rather than an institution. Is there value for a permanent or standing synod around the one who exercises the Petrine primacy so that it does not become unilateral or unbalanced--that the papal "monarchism" of the past does not rear its head again?
That’s a good question. I think that the confusion here might be due to a certain equivocity. There are to different bodies that bear the designation of a synod: the synod of one particular Church, assembled around its primus or prōtos, and the ecumenical synod or council. The latter is indeed an event and not an institution and therefore it cannot be a permanent body. The former, however, is an institution and it is characterized by permanence. The difference is the following: the synod of a Church is comprised by hierarchs of that Church alone: a bishop who does not belong to that local Church cannot participate in it. While the ecumenical synod aspires to the maximum representation of all hierarchs of all local Churches (it is for this reason that no synod in the Orthodox Church has been designated as ecumenical after the separation from Rome). One needs to respect the difference of these two bodies, even though they both are synods of bishops. To create a hybrid third synod that would borrow the regularity of the local synod but also be comprised by hierarchs of other local churches, as in the case of an ecumenical council, is, in my view, problematic. Nevertheless, there is a point of cardinal importance implied in your suggestion which is the need to inscribe primacy within synodality (that is, the primus, even “the universal primus,” is always in reference to a synod) and, conversely, every synod (even the ecumenical synod) is headed by a primus. This principle, however, does not necessitate that the synod of the primus on the universal level be also a permanent synod: for whoever this primus is, he is also the primate who presides over the synod of his local church, and that is a permanent body of ecclesial governance. The risk of monarchism would be accentuated were we to grant to one primate the presiding role of two permanent synods at the same time, one of his local Church, the other of the universal Church.