POPE AND PATRIARCH PRAY FOR PEACE IN ROME

Pope Francis talks with Ecumenical Patriarch Bartholomew during an encounter to pray for peace, in Piazza del Campidoglio in Rome.
CNS photo/Paul Haring

by Cindy Wooden, CNS , The Tablet | International Catholic News & Opinion 

POPE, PATRIARCH DISCUSS CANON LAW'S RELATIONSHIP TO ECUMENISM

by Cindy Wooden, Catholic News Service

Pope Francis greets Astrid Kaptijn, a professor of canon law and president of the Society for the Law of the Eastern Churches, Sept. 19, 2019, during an audience in the Clementine Hall of the Apostolic Palace at the Vatican. (CNS/Vatican Media)

PATRIARCH TO ORTHODOX LEADERS: DO NOT ABANDON ‘SACRED MISSION’ OF UNITY

  

Cindy Wooden,catholic Herald

Patriarch Bartholomew urges fellow leaders to attend Pan-Orthodox Council

Ecumenical Patriarch Bartholomew of Constantinople has called on his brother patriarchs and primates of the Orthodox churches to honour their commitments and join him for the Great and Holy Council of the Orthodox Church.

THE HOLY AND GREAT COUNCIL: POPE SENDING OBSERVERS TO ORTHODOX MEETING

Catholic News Service

Cindy Wooden, 

 

VATICAN CITY (CNS) -- Pope Francis will send high-level observers to the pan-Orthodox council meeting in Crete as a sign of respect, support and encouragement of the Orthodox Church.