Monday, February 29, 2016

Pope and Pope

Pope Francis on Monday received the Patriarch of the Ethiopian Orthodox Tewahedo Church, Pope Matthias I, in the...

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Pope Francis urged world leaders to “promote peaceful coexistence” in the face of “a devastating outbreak of violence...

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Pope Francis was presented two publications of the World Council of Churches (WCC) on 24 February, at the close of a...

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Solovyov: A Bit too Enamored with the Western Church?

After all, who got two feast days? St. Nicholas, the bishop... did the Byzantine Empire cease having bishops after the first millenium?
His comments on St. John Cassian, Feb. 29.
Chiesa: Teacher’s Pets in the School of Francis: The Bishops of the Philippines

They have encouraged the faithful in the use of contraception “in circumstances that invite a re-evaluation of the ban.” As suggested by the pope, when asked about the Zika virus

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Paul VI and the Nuns Raped in the Congo. What the Pope Never Said
First Francis and then Fr. Lombardi have restated for the umpteenth time that pope Montini permitted those nuns to take birth control pills. But that’s false. Here is how that urban legend was born. And what the true status of the question is

Ed Peters: Misunderstanding the (alleged) ‘Congo contraception’ case

Janet Smith

Orthodox Spiritual Life: The Liturgy as Our Life, by Archimandrite Sergius (Bowyer)