Category: Blog Archive
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Mattingly: The Catholic Colbert report
Source: Scripps Howard News For Catholics raised during the head-spinning days after Vatican II, few things inspire flashbacks to the era of flowers and folk Masses quicker than the bouncy hymn “The King of Glory.” But what was a goofy nerd doing on Comedy Central, belting out this folk song while doing a bizarre blend…
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Moscow Patriarchate freezes ecumenical journey: Pope never commanded in the East
More on the clarification from Moscow. Source: Asia News A statement from Metropolitan Hilarion, chairman of the Department for External Relations of the Patriarchate, challenges the very foundations of the recent meeting of the Mixed Commission between Catholics and Orthodox on the role of the bishop of Rome in the Church of the first millennium,…
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Symposium on Patristic Doctrine of Atonement to Take Place at Princeton
Princeton, NJ (Sept 28, 2010) — The Fr. Georges Florovsky Orthodox Christian Theological Society at Princeton University is pleased to announce our first public event, “On the Tree of the Cross: The Patristic Doctrine of Atonement,” a symposium scheduled for Saturday, February 12, 2011. Taking our cue from Fr. Georges Florovsky, the eminent 20th century…
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Metropolitan Hilarion of Volokolamsk: Allegations about a ‘breakthrough’ in Orthodox-Catholic dialogue are untrue
See my notes in the post immediately preceding this one. Source: As has been stressed by the chairman of the Moscow Patriarchate’s department for external church relations, Metropolitan Hilarion of Volokolamsk, the working document of the Joint International Commission for Orthodox-Catholic Dialogue, publicized so widely by some media, does not reflect the attitude of the…