Watching Rush of Wind and Flutter of Wings over the Vatican

This morning  Janet and I are in Rome for a few days awaiting our pilgrimage group as we embark across Italy and then by ship voyaging around Greece and Turkey…

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Orthodox Patriarch of Constantinople rebukes Moscow, underlines importance of ties with Rome

  Catholic World News - September 04, 2015Orthodox Patriarch Bartholomew I of Constantinople underlined the importance of ecumenical ties with Rome, and criticized the resistance of the Russian Orthodox Church, in…

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I Like the Bishops Recently Chosen; but Now a New Group of "Bishop Pickers" has been Chosen. Hum?

David Gibson of Religious News Service writes, After last month’s annual meeting of the U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops, I wrote a story handicapping the four American churchman who enjoyed growing influence…

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