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Joint Declaration of Pope Francis and Patriarch Kirill
Will the historic meeting and joint declaration mark a new era in Orthodox-Catholic relations? Only time will tell.
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Preconciliar Orthodox Document on Marriage
The document states the marriage of an Orthodox Christian with a non-Orthodox Christian is forbidden and cannot be celebrated in the Church, though it can be “blessed out of indulgence” if the children of marriage will be baptized and raised Orthodox.
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What Should a Sixth Instruction Contain?
What provisions would you add, keep, strengthen, revise, or throw, and why?
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Viewpoint: The Practice of Lenten Fasting Has Many Dimensions
We are reminded that we can never be satisfied by ordinary food, which satisfies only momentarily but then perishes.
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Lenten ecumenism and the ecumenical Lent
Our solidarity in wearing our cosmic ashes, whether we have gained them through today’s liturgy or through surviving terror and grief, is a reminder that humanity was created as one, we have sinned as one, we repent as one, and by God’s mercy we will be redeemed as one.
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Ashes as Paradox
Dust does not make a lasting mark. It blows away. It is inconsequential.
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Ars Praedicandi: Homily for the Fifth Sunday in Ordinary Time
Both Isaiah and Simon Peter say, I am a sinner. I take this to mean, not that we put ourselves down and grovel in a self-centered sort of way, but rather, this awesome image of God’s wonderful holiness surrounds us and encourages us so that we can be honest. So we can tell the truth.
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Evangelii Gaudium promotes authentic liturgy. A turning point toward a sixth Instruction on the Reform of the Liturgy?
“Rather than creating ‘unrealities’ – like artificial languages based on Latin that do not exist and will never exist, even by the decree of a Roman congregation – let us heed the invitation to give primacy to reality, to truly step outside the walls we have built around us, to breathe pure air, to speak…
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Lenten Lessons from An Easterner in the West
Imagine for a moment prioritizing a fast from hurting the other with words and deeds, and applying this fast to the entire year; not just Lent.
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