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Pope’s outreach to Protestants to hit new heights in Sweden

ROME—Pope Francis’ outreach to the Protestant world will hit new heights this fall, when he makes a two-day trip to Sweden to participate in ecumenical events marking the 500th anniversary of the...

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Gut-check time in June for both Orthodox and Catholics

In one week, Christian history is supposed to be made on the island of Crete when the leaders of all the world’s independent Orthodox Churches are to begin meeting in a “Holy and Great Council” for the...

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Comfort level with dialogue a U.S. gift to the universal Church

This week, Crux’s Vatican correspondent Inés San Martín, who’s an Argentinian, was in the United States, among other things for a sort of crash course in the realities of American Catholicism. One...

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Christians in Middle East call Pope Francis’s visit to Egypt a blessing

AMMAN, Jordan — Pope Francis’s historic, 27-hour visit to Cairo has left a profound mark on Egyptians, Catholic leaders said, as they anticipate increased ties with fellow Orthodox Christians and...

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Pope and Patriarch: A common declaration for a shared world

[Editor’s note: This commentary was written for L’Osservatore Romano, the Vatican newspaper, to appear along with the joint statement of Pope Francis and Patriarch Bartholomew of Constantinople for the...

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U.S. Catholics and Protestants agree: 500 years after Reformation, they have...

The theological differences that led to the Protestant Reformation 500 years ago have dwindled since in both the United States and Western Europe. That’s the finding of a Pew Research Center survey...

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God-given sexual identity has inherent beauty, dignity, say faith leaders

WASHINGTON, D.C. — In an open letter Dec. 15, a group of 20 Catholic bishops and other religious leaders described as “deeply troubling” the movement today “to enforce the false idea — that a man can...

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Presiding in charity: Ecumenical dialogue looks at pope’s role

ROME — Many people, including many Catholics, believe the pope always ruled over the Catholic Church as an absolute monarch, appointing the world’s bishops and definitively settling issues of faith and...

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Bishop Bambera urges prayers for peace after attack on Coptic Christians

WASHINGTON, D.C. — In the wake of a gunman’s attack on a Coptic Orthodox church and a Christian-owned shop near Cairo Dec. 29, killing at least nine people, a U.S. bishop urged Catholics to “pray for...

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‘Pope’s favorite movement’ welcomes Syrian refugees to Rome

ROME – When scrums of reporters congregate at an airport to witness someone’s arrival, it’s almost always a celebrity at the center of the storm – a head of state in town for a summit, for instance, or...

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Roommates: Quebec cardinal, Anglican bishop shared same roof for a year

QUEBEC CITY, Canada — “Really?” Cardinal Gerald Lacroix, archbishop of Quebec, recalls the reaction of people when they learned that the Anglican bishop of Quebec was living with him in the Episcopal...

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Christian crowd vows to ‘reclaim Jesus’ from polarized U.S.

WASHINGTON, D.C. — Saying that Jesus Christ has been “hijacked” in the name of politics, a large crowd of national Christian leaders and members of their congregations vowed during a prayer service and...

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Patriarch Bartholomew: Ecological crisis caused by ‘human interference’

ROME – One of the greatest allies of Pope Francis in promoting international initiatives that defend the environment is the Ecumenical Patriarch of Constantinople, Bartholomew I. The spiritual leader...

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German bishops react to Vatican decision on communion for Protestants

MUNICH, Germany — Several German bishops have reacted with surprise, consternation and criticism to the Vatican’s rejection of a proposal to allow Protestants married to Catholics to receive the...

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Catholics, Anglicans complete work on structures of authority, communion

ROME — The Anglican-Roman Catholic International Commission published its first document in 13 years on how both institutions can learn from each other in the exercise of ecclesial authority locally,...

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Armenian Apostolic Church appoints first-ever representative in Rome

ROME – The Armenian Apostolic Church, one of six in the Oriental Orthodox communion, will have a fixed representative in Rome, similar to the Eastern Orthodox, Anglicans, and Methodists. Archbishop...

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Pope Francis: Do not yield to the seduction of a ‘culture of hate’

BUCHAREST, Romania – Both clad in white in the cream-colored hall of the Patriarchal Palace, Pope Francis and the Orthodox Patriarch of Romania on Friday confirmed their commitment to strengthening...

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Greek Orthodox, Catholic leaders look at goodwill churches share

WASHINGTON, D.C. — Catholic and Greek Orthodox clergy hope to continue on a path of collaboration between their two churches with the momentum from the June 22 enthronement of Archbishop Elpidophoros...

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Pope gives relics of St. Peter to Orthodox patriarch

ROME — In what Orthodox Ecumenical Patriarch Bartholomew of Constantinople described as a “brave and bold” gesture, Pope Francis gave the patriarch a famous reliquary containing bone fragments believed...

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Vocation, mission of ‘people of God’ focus of consultation’s statement

WASHINGTON, D.C. — The North American Orthodox-Catholic Theological Consultation has released a new agreed statement titled “The Vocation and Mission of the People of God: ‘A Chosen Race, a Royal...

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