Cardinal Kurt Koch, president of the Pontifical Council for Christian Unity, has supported a suggestion that Catholics and Orthodox work to agree on a common date to celebrate Easter. Several attempts, often led by Orthodox bishops, have been made over the past 100 years to push for a common date for Easter. It seems most Read more
A reliquary containing bone fragments believed to belong to St Peter passed from the Vatican’s safekeeping to Orthodox Ecumenical Patriarch Bartholomew of Constantinople last week. “For us, this was an extraordinary and unexpected event that we could not have hoped for,” said Archbishop Job of Telmessos who received the relics on Bartholomew’s behalf. Job had Read more