Both conservatives and reformers in the Catholic clergy and flock respect the legacy of Francis
US President Donald Trump
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an image of himself as the Pope on his official social media accounts, causing a mixed reaction from Catholics around the world, “joking” that he would like to become the new Pope. The latest eccentric move by the 47
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US President once again highlights the growing role of religion in global politics at the global level, including in the West. The pontificate of the...
... become almost a part of the US foreign policy doctrine [
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]), and about local Orthodox churches as similar to national Protestant churches whose territorial boundaries automatically change every time state borders change. And while non-Christian Eastern religions have long since become part of Western popular culture [
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], albeit often in the form of a lightly-built new-age narrative, this is not the case with Orthodox Christianity, nor is it even possible. In the Ukrainian ecclesiastical matters, it is difficult to explain to non-Orthodox people (and sometimes even to Orthodox believers who do not know their heritage well enough) in legal terms why so much importance ...
... Catholics and Anglicans.
Ukraine as the Point of Collapse
The conflict between Moscow and Constantinople has reached a new level. Its further development will determine the future of the world Orthodoxy and affect, at the very least, the position of Christianity in Europe, where some 257 million Catholics and about 200.5 million Orthodox Christians live
The problem of the autocephaly of the Ukrainian church would have never grown to its current scale had it been solely a matter of the independence ...
2016 will inevitably be a very special year in the modern history of Christianity: on February 12, a truly landmark meeting was held between the Primate of the Russian Orthodox Church and the Pope in Cuba; and in June, the Holy and Great Synod of the Orthodox Church will take place.
The Patriarch of Moscow and all Russia ...
