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NEWS
(pre-2006)
Where the Eucharist is, there is the Catholic Church
August 2005 - 30 Days
"Catholics must take seriously the notion of the full
Catholicity of the local Church promoted by Vatican
Council II, and must apply it to their ecclesiology."
Ioannis Zizioulas, Metropolitan of Pergamum, takes stock
of the debate between Catholics and Orthodox regarding
the primacy. Interview by Gianni Valente.
Link
Cardinal Husar Denounces Uniatism and Urges to Establish
One Orthodox-Catholic Church in Ukraine
September 24, 2005 - Interfax
Cardinal Lubomyr Husar, head of the Ukrainian Greek
Catholics, following President Viktor Yuschenko, has
spoken in favour of establishing a one Church in
Ukraine. According to the cardinal, all the church
problems would be solved, ‘if Ukraine had one patriarch
for all.'
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Benedict XVI, Recorded Live: His Ecumenism? It’s Right
Here
September 5, 2005 - L'expressonline
The complete transcript of pope Joseph Ratzinger’s
address to non-Catholic Christians, delivered in
Luther’s homeland. With the addition of all of his
off-the-cuff remarks.
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Ukraine Seminary a "Mantle of Our Lady"
August 28, 2005
Thousands of faithful took part in the inauguration of
the Greek-Catholic Seminary of the Holy Spirit, in Lviv.
Cardinal Lubomyr Husar, head of the Ukrainian
Greek-Catholic Church, called the seminary a "gift from
God" for the country's reviving martyr-Church.
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The Invisible Christians of the Holy Land
August 25, 2005 - L'expressonline
They have come to Israel from Russia and Ukraine. They
are more numerous than the members of the historical
Churches, but they are not included in any tally.
Observant Jews, Orthodox Christians, and Catholics are
all competing for them.
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Cardinal Husar Believes in Future Equality, Unification
of Churches in Ukraine
May 24, 2005 - RISU
In an interview with a Russian newspaper, Cardinal
Lubomyr Husar, head of the Ukrainian Greek Catholic
Church (UGCC), spoke of the prospects for the church’s
development and the unification of churches into a
single national church of Ukraine. The cardinal expects
a clear following of the constitutional law on the
equality of all churches from Ukraine’s President Viktor
Yushchenko.
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Thaw in Moscow?
April 24, 2005 - Inside the Vatican
Tonight I stood outside the former residence of Cardinal
Joseph Ratzinger as a crowd of several hundred Romans
chanted "Ben-e-det-to, Ben-e-det-to" (the Italian for
Benedict) into the darkening spring evening. They wanted
the new Pope, Benedict XVI, the former Cardinal Joseph
Ratzinger, who was installed this morning on the See of
Peter in a splendid, solemn Mass in St. Peter's Square
attended by some 250,000 people, to come out and say
hello to them.
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Interview with Cardinal Lubomyr Husar, head of the
Ukrainian Greek Catholic Church
December 21,
2004 - RISU
"Our patriarchate can be, within our unfortunately
divided Kyivan Church, a very strong ecumenical
instrument that would be leading towards the
consciousness of the entire Church, for unity"
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An Interview with the Rector of the Ukrainian Catholic
University, Fr. Borys Gudziak
April 4, 2005 - RISU
“Yushchenko has given hope for the recognition of
theology”
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The Orthodox are Coming
March 25, 2005 - New Europe Review
The Orthodox are increasingly important players in the
EU--which makes it all the more important to stop
regarding Orthodoxy as intrinsically anti-modern and
anti-Western.
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Calling for Orthodox Unity, With Diversity
February 23, 2003 - Orthodox Christian Laity Website
Metropolitan Philip, the Antiochian Orthodox archbishop
of North America, was not surprised to be asked to make
a few remarks at the final banquet of the 2004
Clergy-Laity Congress of the Greek Orthodox Church in
New York City. Neither were the attendees of the banquet
at what he said...
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Orthodox Churches Reviving Missionary Tradition Around
the World
January 7, 2003 - Post-Gazette
Orthodoxy is beginning to reclaim its long, but nearly
forgotten, heritage as a missionary faith.
Link
Goodbye, King Pope. The Progressivists' Plan at the
Conclave
January 3, 2005 - L'expressonline
The influential lobby of Fr. Dossetti's followers
re-launches the Church reform proposed unsuccessfully at
the 1978 conclaves. And it instructs the next pope in
what to do during his first hundred days.
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Mission Impossible: Building a Church in Turkey
December 28, 2004 - L'Expressonline
Prime minister Erdogan promises more religious freedom,
but the facts belie him: the Christian minority
continues to experience discrimination. The Vatican's
doubts and Europe's indifference.
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Surprise: The Radical Party Opens a School of Theology
in Brussels
December 20, 2004 - L'Expressonline
They're known as ultra-secularists. But they're calling
Catholic theologians and philosophers to speak on
secularism and religion in Europe. Dominican Father
Ignace Berten explains how to craft legislation on
morally controversial matters.
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You Are Peter: An Orthodox Theologian’s Reflection on
the Exercise of Papal Primacy
November 2004 - First Things
Book review by our very own scholar-in-residence,
Subdeacon Adam Deville.
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Ukrainian Rector Uneasy About Religious Freedom: Laments
Poverty and Disregard for Civil Liberties
November 25, 2004 - Zenit
The rector of the Ukrainian Catholic University warns
that "religious freedom is under threat" in his country
of Ukraine.
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"Nec Plus, Nec Minus, Nec Aliter: A Brief History of the
Russian Byzantine Catholic Church and the Russian
Catholics"
November 25, 2004
Reader Methodios Stadnik. The Society of St. John
Chrysostom of Ayatriada Rum Katoliki Kilise located in
Istanbul, Turkey.
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The Cappadocian Fathers on Essence and Energy and the
Knowledge of God: The Process of Epinoia
November 25, 2004
M. Steenberg at the monachos.net website.
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Dorothy Day and the Light from the East: Eastern
Christianity, Fathers of the Desert, Dostoevsky
November 25, 2004
Mark and Louise Zwick from the Houston Catholic
Worker online newspaper.
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From Athens to Rome: The Scuttled Voyage of His
Beatitude Christodoulos
November 4, 2004 - L'Expressonline
The holy synod of the Greek Orthodox Church shelves the
archbishop of Athens' visit to the pope. The archbishop
speaks his mind in an interview. An ecumenism with
Catholics "in economy class."
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Cardinal Urges U.S. Ukrainian Church to Evangelize
October 7, 2004 - CNS
WASHINGTON - Cardinal Lubomyr Husar of Lviv, Ukraine,
challenged nearly 175 U.S. Ukrainian Catholic bishops,
priests and deacons gathered in Washington to give new
energy to evangelizing the people of the United States.
Speaking Sept. 28 at a rare national clergy conference
of the U.S. Ukrainian Catholic Church, he said it is
necessary to minister in Ukrainian and English. He also
suggested ministering in Russian for Ukrainians and
non-Ukrainians who speak that language and, especially
in the United States, exploring the use of Spanish to
bring the riches of the Ukrainian Catholic heritage to
Hispanics who are searching for a deeper relationship
with Christ. The occasion for the Sept. 27-30 clergy
conference was a ceremony rededicating St. Josaphat
Ukrainian Catholic Seminary, the U.S. church's national
seminary next to the campus of The Catholic University
of America. Cardinal Husar, head of the world's
Ukrainian Catholics, presided over the seminary
rededication Sept. 29.
General Introduction to the Eastern Churches
May 27, 2004 - CNEWA
"Many western Christians are baffled by the complexity
of the Christian East, which can appear to be a
bewildering array of national churches and ethnic
jurisdictions. The purpose of this survey is to provide
a clear overview of the eastern churches for the
nonspecialist by furnishing basic information about each
of them and indicating the relationships among them.
Each church is placed in its historical, geographical,
doctrinal, and liturgical context. Because this book is
primarily intended for an English-speaking audience,
details are also provided regarding the presence of each
of these churches in North America, Britain, and
Australia..." General Introduction to the Eastern
Churches by Ronald Roberson, CSP on the Catholic Near
East Welfare Association (CNEWA) website.
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Our "mission with a deadline":
Interview with Cardinal Lubomyr Husar who is about to
transfer to Kiev
May 27, 2004 - 30 Days
"To re-establish communion, all the Eastern Churches
must only open themselves to full communion with the
successor of Peter. Everything else must remain intact.
And at that point, we Eastern Catholic Churches will
have concluded our historic function."
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One People of God in the Land on the Hills of Kyiv
April 13, 2004 -
RISU
Cardinal Lubomyr Husar, head of the Ukrainian
Greek Catholic Church (UGCC), wrote a letter discussing
the beginning of the return of the see of the UGCC to
Kyiv.
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Atheism is Fading But so is Religious Fervor
March 11, 2004 -
Zenit
Research carried out by the Pontifical Council for
Culture reveals that atheism is receding while religious
indifference and "alternative religions" are growing...
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Address of the Synod of Bishops of the Kyiv-Halych
Metropolitanate to the Clergy, Monks and Faithful of the
Ukrainian Greek Catholic Church Concerning the Visit of
Cardinal Walter Kasper to Moscow
March 2, 2004 - UGCC
His Beatitude Lubomyr and the Synod of Bishops of the
Kyiv-Halych Metropolitanate respond to the recent visit
of Cardinal Walter Kasper to Moscow. It is available in
Ukrainian and English.
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Interview with Jesuit Fr. Robert Taft of the Pontifical
Oriental Institute
February 6, 2006 - National Catholic Reporter
Cardinal Walter Kasper, president of the Pontifical
Council for Promoting Christian Unity, is scheduled to
travel to Moscow Feb. 16-20, 2004 for a meeting with the
Patriarch of Moscow, Alexy II. In anticipation of
Kasper's trip, NCR Rome correspondent, John L. Allen Jr.
sat down with Jesuit Fr. Robert Taft of the Pontifical
Oriental Institute. Taft, a pioneer in Eastern
liturgical studies and a veteran of East/West dialogues,
is one of the leading experts on Orthodoxy in the
Catholic Church.
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There’s a Sullen Presence between the Pope and Alexei
II: The Catholic Patriarchate of Kiev
February 10, 2004 -
L'espresso online
The ecumenical patriarchate of Constantinople is in on
the action, too. Cardinal Kasper’s “mission impossible”
to Moscow. A surprising interview with Jesuit Fr. Robert
Taft.
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Rome, Moscow, and Washington. The Winter Campaign of
Vatican Diplomacy
February 4, 2004 -
L'espresso online
The Holy See wants to make peace with the Orthodox
patriarch in Russia, and with the Bush administration in
the United States. It’s the new course set by its new
foreign minister, Giovanni Lajolo.
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Cardinal Kasper Visits Moscow. But for the Vatican It Is
Forever Winter in Russia
January 26, 2004 -
L'espresso online
Rome and patriarch Alexis II start talking again. But
reasons for the two clashing remain unchanged. Vladimir
Zelinskij tells us why this is so from the Orthodox
Church’s point of view.
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Spidlik and Caffarra, the Odd Couple Sprung from the
Pope's Mind
January 5, 2004 -
L'espresso online
The first is a great ecumenist, a bridge between the
East and the West. The second is an implacable
heretic-hunter. But John Paul II favors both of them.
And he has promoted them.
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The Ukraine. War Between two Patriarchies
December 17, 2003 -
L'espresso online
Cardinal Lubomir Husar, head of the Greek Catholic
Church, was enthroned the "de facto" Patriarch of Kiev.
In Moscow the Orthodox Patriarchate grits its teeth at
its disloyal competition. A new chapter begins in the
conflict between the "First" and "Third" Roma.
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The Vatican Against Immigration. Entry Denied to Priests
with Wives and Children
October 20, 2003 -
L'espresso online
The fear is that the example of Eastern-rite married
priests could contaminate the Latin Church as well. The
case of Ukraine. Confusing remarks from newly-elected
cardinal O’Brien.
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