
Ecumenical Gathering at the Vatican a ‘Little Assisi’
COMMENTARY: Three points are worthy of note as the heads of the Catholic Church, Orthodox Church and Anglican Communion come together to pray ahead of the Synod on Synodality.
COMMENTARY: Three points are worthy of note as the heads of the Catholic Church, Orthodox Church and Anglican Communion come together to pray ahead of the Synod on Synodality.
COMMENTARY: The run-up to Pope Francis’ trip to Malta and Holy Week included ‘Canada week,’ ‘Poland week,’ a meeting with the head of the Syro-Malankara Church and the publication of a major instruction on Catholic education.
The Holy Father said the Catholic and Orthodox Churches must take further steps to build on the fraternal dialogue recommenced through the Holy Spirit.
‘I thank God for the blessing of my recent pilgrimage to Turkey,’ he said at his general audience on Dec. 3.
On the three-day trip, the Holy Father appealed for unity with the Orthodox Church and prayed at Istanbul’s Blue Mosque.
Ecumenical Patriarch Bartholomew I praised how Pope Francis exercises his Petrine ministry as the head of the Catholic Church.
Bartholomew I says Pope Francis’ presence in Istanbul is a symbolic ‘bridging’ of the East and the West.
The Holy Father’s Nov. 28-30 visit comes at an important moment in Middle-Eastern diplomacy, says a foreign diplomat.
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