Greeting of Pope Francis to Moscow Delegation Vatican Press Office: Thank you so much for your visit, and also for this meeting, which helps us so much to live our faith in unity and in the hope to walk together. I … Continue reading
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Russia: Metropolitan Hilarion Wants No Union With Catholic Church
AsiaNews, Vladimir Rozanskij: On his visit to Albania, the Orthodox patriarch of Moscow invoked the unity of the Christian Churches to disarm religious radicalism. On the same day, his closest collaborator, Hilarion, pulled the breaks on ecumenical leaps. Between Catholics … Continue reading
Pius X’s Invitation to the Orthodox to Return to Church of Rome ‘the Port of Salvation’
The Remnant, posted by Michael Matt: Venerable Brethren, Health and Apostolic Benediction, It would be hard to say how much has been done by holy men from the closing years of the ninth century, when the nations of the East … Continue reading
There Is a De Facto Schism in the Church
The Witherspoon Institute, E. Christian Brugger: Why is there confusion in the Catholic Church over Amoris Laetitia, and what consequences does it have for Church unity? I argue here that the confusion is ultimately over two de fide dogmas of … Continue reading
Metropolitan Hilarion’s Obsession Against the Uniate Catholics
Catholic Culture: The chairman of the Moscow Patriarchate’s Department for External Church Relations delivered an address in Fribourg, Switzerland, to mark the first anniversary of Pope Francis’s historic meeting with Patriarch Kirill in Havana. After discussing the significance of the … Continue reading
Epiclesis and Filioque: Church Unity and the Schismatics January 19
In praying for the return of the schismatics to Church unity under the pope, I thought, by way of contrast, to clarify my own mind on two issues that, as I see it, have no basis being controversial at all. … Continue reading
Reunion of Orthodox With Rome? Only the Consecration of Russia Can Work That Miracle
Rorate Caeli: Compared to the reign of Benedict XVI there has been less talk in the current Pontificate of the reunification of Catholicism and the Separated Eastern Christians that accept the first Seven Ecumenical Councils (the “Eastern Orthodox”) being a lot … Continue reading
China: Government Tightens Grip on Election and Ordination of Bishops
AsiaNews: Church observers in China have reacted strongly to a revision of the regulations surrounding the election of bishops, which they say grants the government-backed Bishops’ Conference of the Catholic Church in China (BCCCC) overarching control. More on this here.
Cardinal Zen: Is Theirs Not a Schismatic Church?
AsiaNews: It took five months. Msgr. Ma’s beautiful blog posts had, to some extent, relieved our anxieties. Beijing’s silence was understandable: they were otherwise occupied. A one-line comment arrived from Rome on July 8 and then a mention in the … Continue reading
China’s Religious Affairs Bureau Reacts Angrily to Vatican ‘Interference’
AsiaNews: Note against note; excommunication against excommunication, real pain against false pain; theology against base politics: in response to the note released by the Congregation for the Evangelization of Peoples on the ordination without papal mandate to be held in … Continue reading
China’s Police Increasing Pressure on Underground Church to Join Schismatic Patriotic Association
AsiaNews: The Easter holiday will be “very discreetly” celebrated this year in unofficial (underground) communities in China. Many community leaders, bishops and priests, were in fact called in by the police for a “conversation” and even underwent weeks of indoctrination … Continue reading
Ukrainian Catholic Priests Excommunicated for Attempting to Establish Rival Church
CNA reports: The Vatican’s doctrinal office has confirmed the excommunication of four priests expelled from the Ukrainian Greek Catholic Church, who asserted themselves as rivals to its bishops. Read more here.
Schismatic Bishop Ordains Six Priests in China, Sixteen Priests Concelebrate
UCANews: Bishop Joseph Ma Yinglin of Kunming, who remains unrecognized by the Vatican, presided over the ordination of six priests on Monday, despite warnings and criticism from within and outside China. More of this report here.
Passing of Head of Coptic Church and Why he is Called ‘Pope’
Note from Brian Kelly. Let us pray that this schismatic patriarch, whose country was being ravaged by anti-Christian Islamists, renounced his terrible sin of schism before death because if he did not then he is suffering everlasting damnation.
China and the Pope: ‘It’s War’ Says Cardinal Zen
The Chinese Communist government has once again boldly promoted itself as the ultimate master of all things Chinese, including mainland religious affairs, with the ordering of three illicit consecrations (since November, 2010) of bishops having no papal mandate. The Chinese … Continue reading
