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- Nov 16, 2019
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Pope urges Eastern Catholic bishops to promote ecumenism
- Catholic News Service, Vatican
- Sep 16, 2019
Praising the fidelity of Eastern Catholics, Pope Francis also urged them to be more active in the search for Christian unity, especially unity with their Orthodox counterparts.
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Lebanon’s former Maronite Christian patriarch Sfeir dies
- Associated Press, Church in the Middle East
- May 12, 2019
Cardinal Nasrallah Butros Sfeir, an outspoken and feisty personality who also played a key role in shaping the country’s post-war politics, died in a Beirut hospital two weeks after he was admitted suffering from a chest infection.
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Pope urges Macedonian youth, priests to follow Mother Teresa’s example
- Pope in Bulgaria and Macedonia
- May 7, 2019
After a brief, whirlwind trip to Skopje, Pope Francis issued a summons to young people and consecrated, telling them to look to Mother Teresa as an example to keep dreaming, and of how big things can come in small packages.
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Ukraine prelate says Eastern take on abuse shaped by war, persecution
- February abuse summit, Interviews
- Feb 18, 2019
When representatives of Eastern Churches gather this week for a 3-day anti-abuse summit at the Vatican, many will bring with them the experience of living at war for years, an experience one leading Greek Catholic Bishop says increases the risk for abuse.
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Church’s leading scholar on the East was, from beginning to end, his own man
- News Analysis
- Nov 4, 2018
Jesuit Father Robert Taft, who died Monday at 86, was one of those unforgettable characters who make Rome what it is.
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All in the family: Vatican book focuses on Eastern Catholic churches
- Catholic News Service, Vatican
- Apr 5, 2018
A new three-volume, 1,200-page opus, “Oriente Cattolico,” (“The Catholic East”), has been published by the Congregation for Eastern Churches.
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