Category: Ecumenism
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Ecumenical advocate reappointed to papal ecumenical commission
Pope Francis recently confirmed Dr. Eva- Maria Faber as advisor to the Pontifical Council for the Promotion of Christian Unity. She is professor for dogmatic and fundamental theology at the School of Theology in Chur, Switzerland. Pray Tell is happy to reprint this interview she recently gave. Eva-Maria Faber, you have been confirmed as advisor to…
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Adventures in Ecumenism
Grassroots ecumenism doesn’t have to be a hard road; it can present itself as a gift. Even during a pandemic.
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Liturgy and the οἰκουμένη
Are we promoting the recapitulation of all things in Christ?
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An Ecumenical Spring Time in the Vatican?
Don’t miss it: the Catholic response to The Church: Towards a Common Vision.
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What Unusual Kindness?
Do we not see how our rancor and disdain is a counter-evangelical witness, perverting the proclamation of the gospel?
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Review Essay: Political Orthodoxies
“Most of the “unorthodoxies” Hovorun examines in this book are prominent dysfunctions or misuses of religion in the modern period, notorious ones at that.”
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Six Days of Creation Icon Painting Workshop
This past week I worked with iconographer Anna Gouriev at a Hexaemeron icon painting workshop hosted at Diakonia Retreat Center in Salem, South Carolina. Another track, on icon carving, was led by Jonathan Pageau. For those not familiar with the traditional Russian process of icon painting (or “writing”), it is a prayerful time of transforming…
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Season of Creation: What Are You Doing to Celebrate? [updated]
Our communities may awaken to a deeper appreciation of the gift of creation and the call to care for our common home, precisely by “praying our way” into this awareness.
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Remembering, Societas Liturgica Style
Along with two hundred other liturgists from around the church catholic and the globe, I was part of the Congress of Societas Liturgica (5-10 August 2019), held at Durham, England. Like many academic conferences, Societas Liturgica is thematic, and this year was focused on memory, entitled Anamnesis: Remembering in Action, Space and Time. The six…