Ecumenical Patriarch Bartholomew and Pope Francis Release Joint Statement
JERUSALEM – His All-Holiness Ecumenical Patriarch Bartholomew and His Holiness Pope Francis crossed a fifty-year milestone today, continuing the legacy of their...
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Sunday Links Round Up
Here are links to come of things have been reading this week. Massachusetts Society ~ Open Rebellion: Town Meeting Defying the Tyranny of the Intolerable Acts ...
1964 Meeting Audio with Photo Montage
An audio recording from the 1964 meeting of Pope Paul VI and Ecumenical Patriarch Athenagoras with a photo montage from this historic event.
Top Posts of the Week
Here is a list of the top posts of the week here at Shepherd of Souls Russian Church Absent from Pope-Patriarch Summit Heartland ~ A Review Assembly of Canonica...
The Orthodox Church and the Catholic Church: What Has Changed in Fifty Years
by Fr. Thomas FitzGerald When Pope Francis and Ecumenical Patriarch Bartholomew meet in Jerusalem on May 25-26, 2014, they will recall the meeting of their pred...
Memorial Day
There is often confusion around what Memorial Day is for and as much as I like to gather with my family for a cook out in the back yard, the primary purpose is ...
Soldier’s Home Visit
I recently had the honor of speaking to a group of veterans at the Soldiers Home located in Chelsea Massachusetts. I was invited by a group of veterans that be...
Joint Statement of Cardinal O’Malley and Metropolitan Methodios of Boston
A Joint Letter on the Meeting of Pope Francis and Ecumenical Patriarch Bartholomew in Jerusalem May 21, 2014 Dear Sisters and Brothers in Christ, We give thanks...
The troubling trends in America’s ‘Calvinist revival’
There is so much in this essay that we Orthodox can learn from, only reading Orthodoxy writers and bloggers, being afraid to engage outside of the tradition, tr...
Wildfire threatens Tyonek, Alaska
TYONEK, AK [OCA] A wind-driven wildfire that broke out in the late afternoon on Monday, May 19, 2014 inched within two miles of the Athabascan village of Tyonek...