Papal Movements

By Philip Pullella Wed Sep 10, 8:23 AM ET Pope Benedict and French President Nicolas Sarkozy would appear to be unlikely allies in a battle to inject more Christian values back into Europe. Yet when he welcomes Benedict to France for a four-day trip to Paris and Lourdes starting on Friday, Sarkozy, twice divorced and…

Catholic Online “What we must humbly ask for now is for magnanimous gestures from our Catholic friends, especially from the Holy Father” said Bishop Burnham. LONDON (Catholic Online) – Damian Thompson of the Telegraph has covered the rapid developments concerning the Church of England. In a report written for the Telegraph on July 8, Mr….

By Randy Sly 6/7/2008 Catholic Online Is a Vatican decision on a full-communion request from the Traditional Anglican Communion coming after the upcoming Lambeth Conference? WASHINGTON (Catholic Online) – In October of 2007 the College of Bishops for the Traditional Anglican Communion (TAC) unanimously decided to seek communion with the Roman Catholic Church and dispatched…

Interview With Bishop Brian Farrell VATICAN CITY, MARCH 5, 2006 (Zenit.org).- To avoid an East-West conflict it is necessary for all Christians to unite, says the secretary of the Pontifical Council for Promoting Christian Unity. In this interview with ZENIT, Bishop Brian Farrell, who represented the Holy See at the 9th Assembly of the World…

VATICAN CITY, MAY 30, 2008 The Church and the Russian Orthodox have been growing closer together in friendship and in the desire to promote common values, says Benedict XVI. The Pope said this in a letter he sent to Orthodox Patriarch Alexy II of Moscow and All Russia. The letter was delivered by Cardinal Walter…

Moscow, May. 20, 2008 (CWNews.com) – The Russian Orthodox Church has officially rejected a doctrinal statement approved by a joint Catholic-Orthodox theological commission at a meeting in Ravenna, Italy last October. The Ravenna meeting reached agreement that the Bishop of Rome traditionally enjoyed primacy among all the world’s bishops, of both the Eastern and Western…

ISTANBUL, Turkey, NOV. 30, 2007 (Zenit.org).- Benedict XVI expressed in a letter to Patriarch Bartholomew I of Istanbul his wish that Catholic-Orthodox dialogue continues to progress toward the union that Christ himself desired. A Vatican delegation, led by Cardinal Walter Kasper, president of the Pontifical Council for Promoting Christian Unity, delivered the letter to the…

7-March-2008 — ZENIT.org News Agency   WASHINGTON, D.C., MARCH 6, 2008 (Zenit.org).- Benedict’s XVI’s scheduled meeting with interreligious leaders during the Pope’s visit to the United States next month will focus on what is at the heart of all religions, says Bishop Richard Sklba. Auxilary Bishop Sklba of Milwaukee, the chair of the U.S. episcopal…

By The Associated Press Thu Mar 6, 12:15 PM ET WASHINGTON – Representatives of five non-Christian faiths will meet with Pope Benedict XVI during his first U.S. visit as pontiff next month. The 45-minute event on April 17 at the Pope John Paul II Cultural Center in Washington will include a papal address, greetings from…

18 February 2008 Peter Kenny Geneva (ENI). Churches should be prepared to confront their differences honestly and to examine them in the light of the scriptures, Ecumenical Patriarch Bartholomeos I has said at a service to celebrate 60 years since the World Council of Churches was founded with its goal of Christian unity. “The bonds…