Some Catholic leaders have joined the Coptic Orthodox Church in mourning the 41 people -- including 18 children -- who died in a fire in Egypt's capital, Cairo. According to news reports, at least 5,000 Coptic ...
Contributing editor Russell Shaw writes about the upcoming meeting between Pope Francis and Patriarch Kirill of Moscow: “In arranging to meet in September with Russia’s Patriarch Kirill, Pope Francis evidently has two goals in view: ...
Catholics and Orthodox Christians must increasingly work together where they can, Pope Francis told Ecumenical Patriarch Bartholomew of Constantinople. "The full unity for which we yearn is, of course, a gift from God, through the grace ...
In what Orthodox Ecumenical Patriarch Bartholomew of Constantinople described as a "brave and bold" gesture, Pope Francis gave the patriarch a famous reliquary containing bone fragments believed to belong to St. Peter.
A significant rupture between Orthodox churches in Ukraine has brought the official theological dialogue between Catholics and Orthodox to a standstill, according to a Vatican official involved in the talks. The Orthodox schism in Ukraine ...
During Pope Francis' visit to Bulgaria, and on the day Bulgarian Orthodox celebrate as "Saint Thomas Sunday" and read the Gospel about the apostle asking to touch the wounds of the risen Lord, Pope Francis ...
The Orthodox world is reeling from the Russian Orthodox Church’s decision in mid-October to split from the Ecumenical Patriarchate of Constantinople over its steps in recent weeks to recognize an independent Orthodox Church in ...
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