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Vatican’s ‘Bishop of Rome’ Document Has an ‘Ivory Tower’ Feel
COMMENTARY: The proposals from the Dicastery for Promoting Christian Unity feel quite distant from the actual reality of Christian unity today.
COMMENTARY: The proposals from the Dicastery for Promoting Christian Unity feel quite distant from the actual reality of Christian unity today.
COMMENTARY: In the words of Pope John Paul II: ‘The moral life and the life of faith are so deeply united that it is impossible to divide them.’
‘If we are not one, if we are divided, then our witness to Christ is divided and the world will not believe in the Gospel,’ Cardinal Robert Sarah said Feb. 22.
For Father Khoury, the book is a tool that, in the hands of young people, can truly help them live an authentic Christian dimension without losing their individual specificity and belonging.
Finland shares a border with Sweden, Norway, and Russia. It is home to some 5.5 million people, of whom an estimated 16,000 are Catholic, fewer than 1% of the population.
Newly consecrated shepherd of Helsinki, Bishop Raimo Goyarrola Belda shares his hopes for the local church, discussing unity among Christians during his recent visit to Rome for the week of Prayer for Christian Unity.
Each day of the weeklong celebration is centered on different Scripture readings and meditations, which can be found on the website of the Dicastery for Promoting Christian Unity.
The cardinal underlined that the Vatican is working to keep the door open for dialogue with the Russian Orthodox Patriarchate, despite the difficulties.
The delegation took part in a solemn Divine Liturgy presided over by Patriarch Bartholomew in St. George’s Cathedral in Istanbul, where Cardinal Sandri read the Pope’s letter aloud.
The Holy Land’s Catholic bishops explained that the synodal process was seeking to renew the Church as it faced ‘so many crises at every level.’
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