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About Ines Angeli Murzaku
Ines Angeli Murzaku (http://academic.shu.edu/orientalia/) is Professor of Ecclesiastical History at Seton Hall University in New Jersey, Director of Catholic Studies Program and the Founding Chair of the Department of Catholic Studies at Seton Hall University. She earned a doctorate of research from the Pontifical Oriental Institute in Rome part of the Pontifical Gregorian University Consortium and has held visiting positions at the Universities of Bologna and Calabria in Italy and University of Münster in Germany. She is a regular commentator to media outlets on religious matters. She has worked for or collaborated with the Associated Press, CNN, Catholic World Report, National Catholic Register, Voice of America, Relevant Radio, The Catholic Thing, Crux, The Record, The Stream, Vatican Radio (Vatican City), and EWTN (Rome). Dr. Murzaku is currently writing a book on St. Mother Teresa entitled Mother Teresa: The Saint of the Peripheries who Became Catholicism’s Center Piece to be published by Paulist Press in 2020.
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Mater et Magistra or politico and ideologue?

September 3, 2019 Ines Angeli Murzaku 34

How does it feel to go to Church to celebrate the Assumption of Our Lady—or, as Byzantines say, the Dormition of Our Lady—and hear politics? I am back from a splendid pontifical high Mass in […]

Analysis

In visiting North Macedonia, Pope Francis follows in the footsteps of St. Mother Teresa

May 6, 2019 Ines Angeli Murzaku 0

“This Easter is special for us, because we celebrate it on the eve of the visit of the head of the Catholic Church, Pope Francis. I truly believe that this visit is an important step […]

Analysis

A Long-Burning Candle of Hope: The “Bulgarian Pope” and the Pope in Bulgaria

May 3, 2019 Ines Angeli Murzaku 7

On May 5th, Pope Francis will begin his two-day visit to Bulgaria, a multi-religious Eastern European country with an Eastern Orthodox majority that makes up 59.4% of the population. Muslims make up 7.8% of the […]

The Dispatch

Better a patch than a hole? Sino-Vatican relations in the new millennium

September 26, 2018 Ines Angeli Murzaku 7

In 2001 The Economist published an article entitled “Time to forgive the sinners in China”. The author asked an important question, the answer to which we are still struggling to find: Both China and the […]

The Dispatch

Once a priest, always a priest—even after a gay wedding?

July 12, 2018 Ines Angeli Murzaku 21

A case in Italy involving a parish priest who “married” another man is raising questions in some minds about the permanence of priestly ordination. […]

Opinion

Why talk of Catholic-Lutheran intercommunion damages Catholic-Orthodox relations

June 3, 2018 Ines Angeli Murzaku 13

If the Catholic Church can and will think of intercommunion, then intercommunion with the Orthodox Churches is the most reasonable, probable, and feasible. […]

Analysis

Mary, Mother of the Church, and two popes

May 20, 2018 Ines Angeli Murzaku 8

Pope Francis’ decision to create the new memorial of Mary, Mater Ecclesiae on Pentecost Monday is a fulfillment of Blessed Paul VI’s devotion to Mary […]

Features

“The smaller cage is the better cage”: What has China to do with Albania?

March 7, 2018 Ines Angeli Murzaku 4

The decades-long persecution of the Catholic Church in Albania by the Communist government provides a significant case for the Holy See to ponder. […]

The Dispatch

On the 40th anniversary of the first Evangelical-Catholic dialogue on mission

November 3, 2017 Ines Angeli Murzaku 1

The starting point of the 1977 conversations was how Catholics and Evangelicals serve the same mission of evangelizing, drawing people to God, using different approaches […]

The Dispatch

Eastern and Western liturgy: Natural harmony or unnatural dissonance?

September 12, 2017 Ines Angeli Murzaku 15

Pope Francis’ speech on the liturgical reform delivered on August 24, 2017 raises questions about both liturgy and ecumenism. […]

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