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Archive for September, 2009

Archbishop Zoghby on the Indissolubility of Marriage

Posted in Eastern Catholicism, Sacraments on September 25, 2009 | 63 Comments »

I’ve been thinking a bit about this topic lately, and since it came up recently in the comments to this post, I thought I’d focus the discussion on this article of the late Melkite Catholic Archbishop Elias Zoghby. It’s come up before here at Eirenikon. The text of the article comes from the blog Torn [...]

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Our Lady of Sorrows, ‘Softener of Evil Hearts’

Posted in Mary on September 24, 2009 | 4 Comments »

From the new promising new blog, Toward Transfiguration, by Nathan, a seminarian of St Vladimir’s in Crestwood, NY –
Last night my wife and I drove north of New York city and across the Tapan Zee bridge to see an icon visiting from Moscow. It was a more powerful experience than we reckoned for. Indeed, the [...]

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Will the “Third Rome” Reunite with the “First Rome”?

Posted in Catholic Ecumenism, East/West, Eastern Catholicism, News, Orthodox Ecumenism, Reunion, Rome, Saints, Schism on September 23, 2009 | 95 Comments »

Recent Meeting Could Mark Turning Point
By Robert Moynihan
WASHINGTON, D.C., SEPT. 21, 2009 (Zenit.org)- Sometimes there are no fireworks. Turning points can pass in silence, almost unobserved.
It may be that way with the “Great Schism,” the most serious division in the history of the Church. The end of the schism may come more quickly and more [...]

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The Pope on Symeon the New Theologian

Posted in Catholic Ecumenism, Church History, East/West, Fathers, News, Rome, Soteriology, Theology on September 16, 2009 | 30 Comments »

September 16, 2009
Dear brothers and sisters,
Today we pause to reflect on the figure of the Eastern monk Symeon the New Theologian, whose writings exercised a noteworthy influence on the theology and spirituality of the East, in particular, regarding the experience of mystical union with God.
Symeon the New Theologian was born in 949 in Galatia, in [...]

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Say what?

Posted in Catholic Ecumenism, News, Reunion on September 15, 2009 | 69 Comments »

I’m not one to speak of “insurmountable” obstacles between East and West, and I’ve never been able to subscribe fully to the notion (oft-repeated throughout the Orthodox blogosphere) that, in order for reunion to take place, one side would have to annihilate itself by becoming part and parcel of the other (actually, my view is [...]

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Two from Rome

Posted in Catholic Ecumenism, Church History, News, Orthodox Ecumenism, Rome, Saints, Theology on September 5, 2009 | 2 Comments »

Pope Encourages Orthodox Conference
Annual Event Takes Up Theme of Spiritual Struggle
VATICAN CITY, SEPT. 4, 2009 (Zenit.org). – Benedict XVI is encouraging an “opportune initiative” being organized to consider the “spiritual struggle” as understood in the Orthodox tradition.
The Pope, through his secretary of state, Cardinal Tarcisio Bertone, sent a message to the 17th annual International Ecumenical [...]

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