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Above, the nearly 1,000-year-old Cathedral of the Assumption (or Dormition) of the Most Holy Theotokos ("God-bearer") in Kyiv, capital of Ukraine. In Greek, "Theo" means "God" and "tokos" means "bearer," so "Theotokos" means "God-bearer" and refers to Mary, who bore Jesus. So this cathedral is the Cathedral of the Assumption of the Blessed Virgin Mary. (It [...]
The late Ambassador Frank Shakespeare in retirement near Madison, Wisconsin one year ago. Shakespeare passed away peacefully this morning at his home near Madison at the age of 97 Ambassador Frank Shakespeare in the mid-1980s with US President Ronald Reagan and St. John Paul II in the Vatican. Shakespeare was the 2nd US ambassador to [...]
By Matthew Trojacek PATRIARCHAL AWARD IS PRESENTED TO DEPUTY PRIME MINISTER OF HUNGARY Pope Francis in September met in Kazakhstan’s capital Nur-Sultan with hierarchs of the Moscow Patriarchate, but not with Patrirach Kirill, who did not attend On September 13, in the building of the Government of Hungary, Metropolitan Hilarion of Budapest and Hungary [...]
Above, Marie Czernin with Pope St. John Paul II on March 29, 2002. She had written a meditation for the 14th Station of the Via Crucis in the Colosseum that year, the stations recalling the death of Christ on the Cross. And John Paul II greeted her Two days ago, on October 28, in Vienna, [...]
Photo Credit: Christian Icon Store An image of the icon of Our Lady of Kazan, known popularly in Russia as "the protection of Russia." July 21 (yesterday) was the Feast Day of Our Lady of Kazan, commemorating the finding of the icon in 1579 in Kazan. A reader just wrote to me: "Robert... [...]
"I hope that the war will end."—Daria Khafizov, the daughter of a friend of mine, Dmitry Khafizov, who died last year in Kazan, Russia. I wrote a reflection on him in my Letter of April 23, 2021 (link). She came across my letter several months ago while making an internet search for news of her [...]
An artist's depiction of the Sermon on the Mount, in about 30 A.D., nearly 2,000 years ago, when Jesus preached his "new law," summed up in eight blessings, the Beatitudes (Matthew, Chapter 5) The Church of the Beatitudes, a Roman Catholic church located on the Mount of Beatitudes near the Sea of Galilee in Israel, not far from Capernaum. The church is located [...]
By Peter Anderson Patriarch Alexy II, head of the Russian Orthodox Church, and Cardinal Walter Kasper, president of the Pontifical Council for Promoting Christian Unity, venerate the icon of the Mother of God of Kazan (Aug. 28, 2004 - CNS photo from Reuters) Anyone who has worked extensively in the field of ecumenical relations [...]
