MOSCOW WANTS A PAN-ORTHODOX MEETING TO OVERCOME THE UKRAINIAN CRISIS

Vladimir Legoyda, Chairman of the Department for Society and Relations with the Mass Medias of the Russian Orthodox Church

Interview with Vladimir Legoyda, the Head of the Russian church’s Synodal Department for Church, Society and Media Relations claims that the Moscow Patriarchate is not dominated by Putin and expresses gratitude for the discretion of the Pope and the Holy See in the face of recent intra-Orthodox controversies: “There was not a single comment from the Roman Catholic Church that would interfere or make the situation worse”

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BERGOGLIO, RATZINGER AND THE LORD WHO CALMS THE STORMS

GIANNI VALENTE

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THE POPE AND THE ORTHODOX ''THORNS''

Patriarch Bartholomew and Metropolitan Epiphany during the Tomos of autocephaly delivery ceremony.

 Francis’ trips in Eastern Europe are bound to intercross the lacerations of Orthodoxy. Where individual Churches are beginning to take sides regarding the management and potential developments of the «Ukrainian crisis»

WITHOUT PUTIN, WITHOUT KIRILL”. PRIMATE OF THE NEW UKRAINIAN ORTHODOX CHURCH ELECTED

 

 

 

“Without Putin, without Kirill”. Primate of the new Ukrainian Orthodox Church elected
He is Metropolitan Epiphany, right-hand man of the self-proclaimed “Patriarch” Filaret, at the head of an ecclesial structure that until a few months ago was considered a schismatic entity by all the canonical Orthodox Churches. The role of the Ukrainian President Poroshenko

DIVIDED ORTHODOX'S WOUNDED CHRISTMAS

The rupture of sacramental communion between the Patriarchates of Moscow and Constantinople over the “Ukrainian issue” risks triggering potentially irreparable processes of laceration

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ROME

THE PATRIARCHATE OF MOSCOW: THE ''UKRAINIAN SCHISM' COULD LEAD TO 'BLOODSHED''

The intra-Orthodox disputes over the possible recognition of an independent Ukrainian Orthodox Church are far from over. The patriarchates of Moscow and Constantinople explain their reasons. While the Pope, “the Catholic Churches should not interfere in the internal affairs of the Russian Orthodox Church, not even in political matters”

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THEOPHILUS III: THE POPE STANDS WITH US ON THE STATUS QUO

The Greek Orthodox Patriarch of Jerusalem explains the reasons for his meeting with the Bishop of Rome. And he also responds to attacks by groups accusing him of selling off the Patriarchate’s properties

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IL CONCILIO ORTODOSSO “AZZOPPATO” E I SEGNI DEI TEMPI

 

 

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  Dietro gli scontri di potere tra apparati ecclesiastici, si intravede un «pensiero mondano nella Chiesa» che il Patriarca Bartolomeo aveva già indicato come radice della frattura tra Cattolicesimo e Ortodossia. E che oggi nutre tutte le nuove forme di superbia e auto-sufficienza clericale

CONCILIO ORTODOSSO, ULTIMI TRAVAGLI PRIMA DELL’INIZIO

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Il Sinodo del Patriarcato ecumenico si pronuncia sui malumori e le richieste di rinvio sollevate da altre Chiese: nessuna cornice istituzionale consente di riconsiderare il processo sinodale già avviato, invocando sospensioni o rinvii. I documenti conciliari non sono «blindati», e si potranno modificare ed emendare nel corso dei lavori

Il Santo e Grande Concilio della Chiesa ortodossa non può naufragare nel momento in cui sta prendendo il largo.

The future of the pan-Orthodox Council is to be decided at Chambésy

GIANNI VALENTE

ROME

The meeting at Lake Geneva is an important litmus test for the unity of the quarrelsome Orthodox Churches. It finds a supporter like no other in Pope Francis with his respectful and “syntonic” approach to Orthodox synodality