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by bcadmin | Sep 28, 2022 | Associated Press, Church in Europe, News, Patriarch Kirill of Moscow, President Vladimir Putin, Russian Orthodox Church, Ukraine, Ukraine Crisis | 0 |
Russian soldiers who die in the line of duty in Ukraine have all of their sins forgiven, the patriarch of the Russian Orthodox Church proclaimed in a sermon, comparing their sacrificial death to that of Jesus.
Read Moreby bcadmin | Sep 11, 2022 | 2022 Papal Trip to Kazakhstan - Live Coverage, Cardinal Joseph Zen, China, Interfaith, Kazakhstan, lead, News, News Analysis, Patriarch Kirill of Moscow, President Vladimir Putin, Xi Jinping | 0 |
As Pope Francis heads to the central Asian nation of Kazakhstan this week, there’s a sense in which the biggest story is likely to be about who isn’t on hand as much as who is.
Read Moreby bcadmin | Aug 25, 2022 | Associated Press, Catholic-Orthodox Relations, Kazakhstan, lead, News, Patriarch Kirill of Moscow, Pope Francis, Russian Orthodox Church, Ukraine Crisis, Vatican | 0 |
Patriarch Kirill of Moscow has canceled his planned attendance at an interfaith meeting in Kazakhstan next month where he was expected to meet with Pope Francis, in a sign of further deterioration in relations over Russia’s war in Ukraine.
Read Moreby bcadmin | Aug 5, 2022 | Associated Press, Church in Europe, News, Patriarch Kirill of Moscow, Pope Francis, Ukraine Crisis | 0 |
Pope Francis met Friday with a top official of the Russian Orthodox Church ahead of an expected meeting next month in Kazakhstan with the Russian Orthodox leader, Patriarch Kirill, who has justified the war in Ukraine.
Read Moreby bcadmin | Jul 13, 2022 | Catholic News Service, Church in Europe, Kazakhstan, News, papal trip, Patriarch Kirill of Moscow, Ukraine Crisis | 0 |
Pope Francis said he plans to meet with Russian Orthodox Patriarch Kirill in September at an interreligious meeting in Kazakhstan.
Read Moreby bcadmin | Apr 24, 2022 | lead, News, News Analysis, Patriarch Bartholomew, Patriarch Kirill of Moscow, Pope Francis, President Vladimir Putin, Russia, Russian Orthodox Church, St. Edith Stein, Ukraine Crisis, Vatican diplomacy | 0 |
It’s one thing to “make a mess” when the worst thing that’s going to happen is that a few conservative cardinals get their noses out of joint; it’s another when innocent people might pay a price if a churchman inadvertently makes a conflict worse.
Read Moreby bcadmin | Apr 22, 2022 | interview, lead, News, Patriarch Kirill of Moscow, Pope Francis, Russia, Ukraine, Vatican | 0 |
Pope Francis told an Argentine journalist that his planned second meeting with Russian Orthodox Patriarch Kirill – penciled in for June in Jerusalem – has been canceled.
Read Moreby bcadmin | Mar 21, 2022 | Catholic News Service, Church in Europe, News, Patriarch Kirill of Moscow, Russian Orthodox Church, Ukraine, Ukraine Crisis | 0 |
One of the Orthodox scholars who signed a statement condemning as “heresy” the political vision of Russian Orthodox Patriarch Kirill of Moscow is a U.S.-born Russian Orthodox nun and scholar of Byzantine liturgy.
Read Moreby bcadmin | Mar 5, 2022 | Archbishop Stanislaw Gadecki, Associated Press, Cardinal Pietro Parolin, Church in Europe, Father Antonio Spadaro, News, Patriarch Kirill of Moscow, Poland, Pope Francis, Russian Orthodox Church, Ukraine, Ukrainian Catholic Church, War | 0 |
The head of the Polish bishops’ conference has publicly condemned Russia’s invasion of Ukraine and urged the head of the Russian Orthodox Church to use his influence to demand an end to the war and for Russian soldiers to stand down.
Read Moreby bcadmin | Dec 23, 2021 | Catholic-Orthodox Relations, lead, Metropolitan Hilarion, News, Patriarch Kirill of Moscow, Pope Francis, Russian Orthodox Church, Vatican | 0 |
Pope Francis’s meeting with a top member of the Russian Orthodox Church Wednesday was yet another step forward in the planning process for a second meeting with Russian Orthodox Patriarch Kirill, which sources say could happen next year.
Read Moreby bcadmin | Feb 13, 2021 | Archbishop Rino Fisichella, Cardinal Kurt Koch, Church in Europe, lead, Metropolitan Hilarion, News, Patriarch Kirill of Moscow, Russia, Russian Orthodox Church, Vatican | 0 |
Officials from the Vatican and from the Russian Orthodox churches met Friday for a virtual discussion on the impact of the coronavirus pandemic, and how to collaborate in responding to the complex and multifaceted challenges posed by COVID-19.
Read Moreby bcadmin | Jul 13, 2020 | China, Hagia Sophia, Islam, lead, mission, News, News Analysis, Patriarch Bartholomew, Patriarch Kirill of Moscow, President Recep Tayyip Erdogan, provisional agreement, Turkey, Vatican diplomacy | 0 |
ROME – Cue the soundtrack from film adaptations of the Dickens classic, because what Pope Francis has given us over the last week, ladies and gentlemen, is a Tale of Two Cities … only the settings aren’t London and Paris, they’re Beijing and Ankara. We’re in the middle of July,
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