... Western popular culture [
5
], 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 ... ... “pool” for the largest number of religious organizations in a consultative status. In this connection, the fact that the Russian Orthodox Church is not represented at all in the UN system of international organizations is quite conspicuous. Thus, ...
... 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. If the contradictions ... ... principal centres of power are not resolved, then the risk it that Orthodoxy may cease to exist in its current form. Without the Russian Orthodox Church, the Orthodox world loses any qualitative significance. And without the “symbolic power” of the rest ...
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 will hardly have a better time to play the “meeting of the millennium” card....
... February 12, 2016. A meeting of this kind has been unprecedented in the history of relations between the Roman Catholic Church and the Russian Orthodox Church (ROC). Growing differences in doctrinal theology and policies led to the split in once united Christianity in the Great Schism of 1054 and to establishing its Eastern and Western branches. The Russian Orthodox Church became autocephalous and acquired her own patriarch in 1589. However, the primacy of the pope in the Catholic world has remained indisputable.
The impetus to the dialogue between the Orthodox Churches and the Roman Catholic Church ...
