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Pope Francis gives Greek Orthodox archbishop fragments of Parthenon sculptures from Vatican Museums

December 16, 2022 Catholic News Agency 2

Pope Francis greets His Beatitude Ieronymos II in Athens, Greece on Dec. 5, 2021. / Vatican Media

Vatican City, Dec 16, 2022 / 05:15 am (CNA).
Pope Francis has decided to give the Greek Orthodox archbishop of Athens three fragments of Partheno… […]

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Pope Francis decries global ‘retreat from democracy’ in Athens speech

December 4, 2021 Catholic News Agency 2

Pope Francis addresses a meeting with authorities, civil society and the diplomatic corps at the Presidential Palace in Athens, Greece, Dec. 3, 2021 / Vatican Media.

Athens, Greece, Dec 4, 2021 / 04:55 am (CNA).
Pope Francis lamented a global “… […]

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‘What I can do is love’: This Catholic sister is a missionary to refugees in Greece

April 15, 2021 Catholic News Agency 0

Sr. Victoria Kovalchuk with a refugee girl in Athens, Greece in April 2021. / Alexey Gotovsky/CNA.

Rome Newsroom, Apr 15, 2021 / 04:00 am (CNA).
Sr. Victoria Kovalchuk wanted to be a missionary in South America, but God had other plans for the C… […]

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Wojtyla’s Athenian catechesis: An antidote to the culture of veriphobia

May 17, 2020 Eduardo Echeverria 4

Archbishop Karol Wojtyla’s newly discovered 1965 reflections on St. Paul’s discourse at the Areopagus (Acts 17: 16-32), Mars Hill, is the starting point for Wojtyla’s cycle of catecheses in this book, Teachings for an Unbelieving […]

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Paul on the Areopagus: A master class in evangelization

June 4, 2019 Bishop Robert Barron 11

The account of St. Paul’s address on the Areopagus in Athens, found in the seventeenth chapter of the Acts of the Apostles, is a sort of master class in the evangelization of the culture, and […]

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