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EU bishops implore Russian Orthodox patriarch to intervene in Ukraine conflict

March 11, 2022 Catholic News Agency 1

Cardinal Jean-Claude Hollerich and Patriarch Kirill of Moscow. / Daniel Ibáñez/CNA/Kremlin.ru via Wikimedia (CC BY 4.0).

Rome Newsroom, Mar 11, 2022 / 04:35 am (CNA).
The president of the European bishops’ commission has appealed to Russian Ort… […]

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Irish Catholic bishops call on Patriarch Kirill to support Ukraine ceasefire

March 9, 2022 Catholic News Agency 0

Patriarch Kirill of the Russian Orthodox Church. / Nickolay Vinokurov via www.shutterstock.com.

Maynooth, Ireland, Mar 9, 2022 / 12:10 pm (CNA).
Irish Catholic bishops have appealed to the head of the Russian Orthodox Church to support a ceasef… […]

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Polish Catholic archbishop to Russian Orthodox leader: Please ask Putin to stop Ukraine war

March 2, 2022 Catholic News Agency 1

Archbishop Stanisław Gądecki and Patriarch Kirill of Moscow. / Episkopat.pl/Kremlin.ru via Wikimedia (CC BY 4.0).

Warsaw, Poland, Mar 2, 2022 / 22:55 pm (CNA).
The president of Poland’s Catholic bishops’ conference has urged the head of the Rus… […]

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Pope Francis’ second summit with Russian Orthodox patriarch could be held in June-July

February 18, 2022 Catholic News Agency 2

Pope Francis meets with Patriarch Kirill in Havana, Cuba on Feb. 12, 2016. / Vatican Media.

Genoa, Italy, Feb 18, 2022 / 08:55 am (CNA).
Pope Francis could meet the head of the Russian Orthodox Church in June or July, Russia’s ambassador to the… […]

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Pope Francis meets Metropolitan Hilarion as hopes rise for second summit with Moscow patriarch

December 22, 2021 Catholic News Agency 1

Metropolitan Hilarion Alfeyev meets with Pope Francis at the Vatican, Oct. 6, 2021. / Vatican Media.

Vatican City, Dec 22, 2021 / 03:15 am (CNA).
Pope Francis met with Metropolitan Hilarion on Wednesday amid rising expectations of a second enco… […]

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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 […]

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An Orthodox fracture with serious consequences

September 26, 2018 George Weigel 11

While Catholicism has been embroiled in a crisis of sexual abuse and episcopal malfeasance reaching to the highest levels of the Church, Eastern Orthodoxy may be on the verge of an epic crack-up with major […]

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