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by bcadmin | Oct 18, 2022 | Archbishop John Wester, Church in the US, lead, News, nuclear disarmament, President Joe Biden, President Vladimir Putin, Soviet Union, Ukraine Crisis | 0 |
The 60th anniversary of the Cuban Missile Crisis has Archbishop John Wester looking back to his youth, remembering the “duck and cover” exercises he practiced in school, and lamenting that today’s children still grow up with nuclear threats.
Read Moreby bcadmin | Sep 1, 2022 | Cold War, Gorbachev, Mikhail Gorbachev, Moscow, News, Pope Francis, Soviet Union, U.S. & World News | 0 |
Pope Francis offered his prayers and praise for former Soviet President Mikhail Gorbachev, who died at age 91 Aug. 30 in Moscow after a long illness.
Read Moreby bcadmin | Sep 1, 2022 | Catholic News Service, Church in Europe, News, Pope Francis, Russia, Soviet Union | 0 |
Pope Francis offered his prayers and praise for former Soviet President Mikhail Gorbachev, who died at age 91 Aug. 30 in Moscow after a long illness.
Read Moreby bcadmin | Aug 31, 2022 | Mikhail Gorbachev, News, Pope John Paul II, Soviet Union, U.S. & World News | 0 |
Pope John Paul pressed Gorbachev on the possibility of the Vatican and the Soviet Union exchanging diplomatic representatives, which he felt would aid in resolving religious freedom problems and other issues. Gorbachev responded positively, saying that “we approve such an approach” while cautioning against acting too quickly.
Read Moreby bcadmin | Aug 31, 2022 | Berlin Wall, Catholic News Service, Cold War, Communism, John Paul II, lead, News, Russia, Soviet Union, Vatican | 0 |
Former Soviet President Mikhail Gorbachev, who died Aug. 30 in Moscow after a long illness, met several times with St. John Paul II, and the two often exchanged words of appreciation for each other.
Read Moreby bcadmin | Aug 6, 2022 | lead, martyrdom, News, Pope Francis, Soviet Union, Ukraine, Ukraine Crisis, Vatican | 0 |
Pope Francis Friday recognized the martyrdom of Father Petro Paolo Oros, a priest from the Greek Catholic Eparchy of Mukachevo, Ukraine, who was shot to death by Soviet communists in Siltse in August 1953.
Read Moreby bcadmin | Jul 20, 2022 | Catholic News Service, Church in Europe, George Weigel, journalism, Lithuania, News, Soviet Union | 0 |
An exhibit currently on display in Washington offers a moving portrait of the courage of Catholic journalists during the era of Soviet persecution in Eastern Europe, along with a potent message of faith and resistance to tyranny.
Read Moreby bcadmin | May 4, 2022 | Communism, Fr. Alexander Men, News, Patriarch Kirill, Russia, Russian Orthodoxy, Soviet Union, The Dispatch, Ukraine, Vladimir Putin | 0 |
I’ve been thinking recently about Robert Frost’s poem, “The Road Not Taken,” and its relationship to a deceased Russian Orthodox priest. As the Soviet Union was crumbling in 1990, two roads metaphorically diverged in a […]
Read Moreby bcadmin | Mar 28, 2022 | "Russian World", 2022, Cardinal Manning: “All human conflict is ultimately theological.”, Cardinal Newman, Columns, dialogue is not always the answer, Great Schism (1054), John 17:21, just war, News, Orthodox Christianity, Patriarch Kirill, Pope Francis, Robert Royal, Russian Orthodox Church, Russkiy Mir, Soviet Union, The Catholic Thing, Ukraine "Holy War", Ukrainian resistance, Ut Unum Sint of John Paul II | 0 |
Robert Royal: Given Kirill’s unholy compromises with Putin, cAN Moscow be part of Christian dialogue? Will Russian Orthodoxy hold together?
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Read Moreby bcadmin | Feb 28, 2022 | Bishop Borys Gudziak, Church in the US, lead, News, President Joe Biden, President Vladimir Putin, Russia, Soviet Union, Ukraine, Ukrainian Catholic Church, War | 0 |
Just before Cardinal Timothy Dolan of New York left St. George Ukrainian Catholic Church on Feb. 27 he put his arm around Bishop Paul Chomnycky of the Ukrainian Catholic Eparchy of Stamford, and said, “you let me know how we can help.”
Read Moreby bcadmin | Feb 25, 2022 | Bishop Borys Gudziak, Church in the US, lead, Nato, News, President Joe Biden, President Vladimir Putin, Russia, Soviet Union, Ukraine, Ukrainian Catholic Church | 0 |
Archbishop Borys Gudziak of the Ukrainian Catholic Archeparchy of Philadelphia is calling on Catholics and “people of good will” in the U.S. to pray, be informed, and help Ukrainians however possible after Russia invaded the country early Thursday.
Read Moreby bcadmin | Oct 11, 2021 | Astana, Battle of Lepanto, Bishop Athanasius Schneider, G.K. Chesterton, Gulf of Patras, Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Lepanto, Merrimack, News, Ottoman Empire, Soviet Union, Thomas More College, U.S. & World News | 0 |
Given the challenges facing the Catholic Church and the faithful in the world today, the rosary “is our true weapon, which heaven gave us for our time,” said Auxiliary Bishop Athanasius Schneider of Astana, Kazakhstan.
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