An English cardinal took part in the funeral of Queen Elizabeth II in an indication of openness of the British Royal family to ecumenical and interfaith dialogue.
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Podcast: How Putin’s ‘holy war’ threatens Pope Francis’ work for Christian unity
This week on “Inside the Vatican,” veteran Vatican correspondent Gerard O’Connell and host Colleen Dulle discuss the religious implications of the Russia-Ukraine war and how it threatens work towards Christian unity.
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Former ambassador to the Holy See and Russia on Pope Francis’ Ukraine dilemma
This week on Inside The Vatican, Ricardo da Silva, S.J. interviews Anne Leahy, who once served as the Canadian ambassador to Russia and later to the Holy See, to understand Pope Francis and the Vatican in its relations with Russia.
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Explainer: Understanding Orthodoxy, the shared religion of Ukraine and Russia
Why one Orthodox patriarch can denounce Russia’s invasion of Ukraine even while another supports it
Posted inFaith, Vatican Dispatch
An interview with Pope Francis’ friend Marcelo Figueroa, the first Protestant editor at the Vatican newspaper
The first Protestant ever to be employed as an editor by L’Osservatore Romano, the Vatican daily newspaper, has published a 367-page book on the ecumenical journey of the first Latin American pope.
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Pope Francis will visit war-torn Congo and South Sudan in July
The pope will visit Kinshasa and Goma, Congo and Juba, South Sudan, joining Anglican Archbishop Justin Welby of Canterbury and the moderator of the Presbyterian Church of Scotland.
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Fourth Anglican bishop in less than a year received into Catholic Church
Peter Forster, 71, is the fourth Anglican bishop to be received into the Catholic faith in less than a year and the fifth to become a Catholic in the past two years.
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When it comes to Christian unity, these Franciscans were ahead of their time—and their mission continues
Fifty miles north of New York City, the Friars and Sisters of the Atonement—the founders of the Week of Prayer for Christian Unity—continue their tradition of unifying Christians and mending souls.
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Pope Francis declares St. Irenaeus a doctor of the church
In a decree released by the Vatican Jan. 21, the pope ordered that the second-century theologian be given the title of “doctor of unity.”
Posted inFaith, Vatican Dispatch
Pope Francis: A second meeting with the Russian Orthodox patriarch is ‘on the not-distant horizon’
Pope Francis revealed that a second meeting between him and the Russian Orthodox Patriarch of Moscow is under consideration. “It’s on the not-distant horizon,” he said.