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Alexander Solzhenitsyn in Zurich, Switzerland in 1974. He died in 2008. He was one of Russia's greatest writers (link) “It pains me to write this as Ukraine and Russia are merged in my blood, in my heart, and in my thoughts. But extensive experience of friendly contacts with Ukrainians in the camps has shown me [...]
"The Church must breathe with her two lungs! In the first millennium of the history of Christianity, this expression refers primarily to the relationship between Byzantium and Rome. From the time of the Baptism of Rus' it comes to have an even wider application: evangelization spread to a much vaster area, so that it now [...]
Table of Contents To view each article, simply click the article title. EDITORIAL The Faith Must Be Proclaimed by Robert Moynihan LEAD STORY Using technology to track priests: Is it acceptable? Will it encourage... blackmail? by Robert Moynihan and ITV staff SCRIPTURE “To God, who gives joy to my youth" by Prof. Anthony Esolen Buy [...]
May 13, 2021 Feast of the Ascension Feast of Our Lady of Fatima Letter #26, 2021, Thursday, May 13: Two Councils In 2004, a year before Pope John Paul II died (he died on April 2, 2005), and the same year that the icon of Our Lady of Kazan returned to Russia (August 28, 2004), [...]
The scene this morning outside a school in Kazan, Russia, where there was a terrible school shooting this morning that took the lives of many children "Kazan Catholics cry and pray for the victims, the injured and their families." — Father Andrey Startsev, rector of the Catholic Church in Kazan, upon hearing the news that eight [...]
On April 29, I received a note from the widow of my late friend, Dmitry Khafizov. (see my Letter #18, 2021, Friday, April 23: Farewell Dmitry) *** Dmitry died on April 21 in Kazan, Russia, at the age of 57. He was well-known in Kazan and throughout Russia as a man who had spent many [...]
Three images related to a possible Russia-Ukraine Summit meeting in Rome with Pope Francis, in the near future, to discuss the tense situation in the Donbass region of Ukraine. Top, Pope Francis, 84, with Vladimir Putin, President of Russia, 68, and Vladimir Zelensky, President of Ukraine, 46, in the background. In the second photo, Zelensky [...]
Two images of Russian Orthodox Patriarch Kirill, the top one taken in 1981 when he was about 35 (taken at a conference on nuclear weapons and disarmament in Amsterdam, Holland), the second one taken recently. Kirill has been the leader of the Russian Orthodox Church for 12 years, since February 1, 2009, when he succeeded [...]
