Exhort all priests of the diocese to offer a Mass of Reparation every Friday between now and Christmas. (The Solemnity of the Exaltation of the Cross and the Feast of All Souls are, of course, universal feasts that cannot be replaced by votive Masses, though both are particularly connected ...
The Old Believers are one of the most conservative groups in Latvian society, as their identity and cultural traditions are completely reliant on the past. This feature has been prevalent since the emergence of the Old Believers movement, when, in their view, the Orthodox faith was divided into...
The respondents quantified the brand identifiers of the Catholic Church in Poland. They rated their importance on a scale from 1 to 6—see Figure 9. The respondents rated the person of Pope John Paul II and the Cross as the strongest brand identifiers (mean score of 5.1, about half of the...
This essay provides a historical foundation of the Church’s relationship with the State from late antiquity to the present. With such a broad scope, the integral role canon law played in the Church’s history serves as a window through which to view the shaping and reshaping of the Church’...
Seraphim of Sarov, 1st class (2015); the Order of the Holy Equal-to-the-Apostles Grand Prince Vladimir, 1st class (2007); the Order of the Holy Blessed Grand Prince Dmitrii Donskoi, 1st class (2005); and the Order of St. Sergius of Radonezh, 1st class (2002). 45 This is the ...