Orthodoxy vs. “Western Soteriology”

Father Kimel of Pontifications has alerted me to the following blog articles which provide a rather different Orthodox perspective on the alleged chasm between Greek and Latin understandings of sin and salvation. I doubt that the author, Ephrem Bensusan, a conservative Eastern Orthodox, can be accused of being a “latinophile” or “crypto-Catholic”, although apparently he [...]

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“To build ourselves on the foundation of Saint Peter”

You should understand that the head of the Apostles was Saint Peter, to whom Christ said, “You are the rock; and on this rock I shall build my church, and the gates of hell will not overcome it.” After his resurrection, he also said to him three times, while on the shore of the sea [...]

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The Politics of Infallibility at Vatican I

Michael Joseph at Evangelical Catholicism has posted a detailed account of the rather chaotic process by which the First Vatican Council arrived at its decision concerning papal infallibility. Many thanks to Michael for making his excellent research available! The article is in six parts:

Part One – Preliminary Measures
Part Two – Preliminary Politics
Part Three – The [...]

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Pope John Paul II and the East

“Alongside his many Letters, speeches, homilies, travels and symbolic gestures dealing with the Christian East, the late Pope John Paul II gave a series of Angelus addresses in which he explicitly invokes the East and its irreplaceable gifts to the Universal Church. Here are some excerpts from these papal messages.”

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Sacramentum Vitae on Orthodoxy and Catholicism

In addition to Pontifications, Michael Liccione’s blog Sacramentum Vitae is another fantastic resource for those looking for an intelligent Roman Catholic take on Eastern Orthodoxy, and for substantive combox debate on some of the central issues dividing Orthodoxy and Catholicism.
Posts on the Theology of God

The Robinson-Blosser Debate on Divine Simplicity (6/2/2005)
Beating the Filioque Horse [...]

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The Pontificator on Orthodoxy and Catholicism

I’m sure that the entire Catholic blogosphere breathed a collective sigh of relief when Father Alvin Kimel’s Pontifications came back online after it was hacked. I have always found Pontifications to be an immensely informative blog (both the posts themselves as well as many of the comments, both Orthodox and Catholic). I’m currently going through [...]

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More than an Easter in common

Archbishop Demetrios
TODAY, Eastern Orthodox, Roman Catholic and Protestant Christians have the wonderful opportunity to celebrate Easter together on the same date. To many, that idea might sound natural, since the celebration of Easter speaks to the most central aspect of the Christian faith: the resurrection of Jesus Christ from the dead.
Regrettably, though, the phenomenon happens [...]

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Mount Athos objects (George Weigel)

From the Denver Catholic Register
Last December’s visit by Pope Benedict XVI to Ecumenical Patriarch Bartholomew of Constantinople revived speculation that the millennium-long division between Rome and the Christian East might soon end. That was certainly the dream of Benedict’s predecessor, the Servant of God John Paul II, who really did seem to believe that Rome [...]

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The Vocation of Oriental Catholicism

We must fight to insure that Latinism and Catholicism are no longer synonymous, that Catholicism remains open to every culture, every spirit, and every form of organization compatible with the unity of faith and of love. At the same time, by our example, we must force the Orthodox Church to recognize that a union . [...]

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Pascha 2007 in Damascus, Syria

المسيح قام من بين الأموات ووطئ الموت بالموت ووهب الحياة للذين في القبو
‘Christ is risen from the dead, trampling down death by death and upon those in the tombs bestowing life.’
Some beautiful photos and a video of the respective Paschal Celebrations of the Antiochian Orthodox Patriarch of Antioch Ignatius IV, and the Melkite Catholic Patriarch [...]

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