The Catholic World articles from January 1994

The Catholic World archives from January 1994

The new realities of ecumenism in Eastern Europe.
January 1, 1994... In June 1988 the Russian Orthodox Church marked the one thousandth anniversary of Christianity in the Russian lands with solemn celebrations at which an imposing delegation of Catholic cardinals, bishops and other clerical and lay...

Orthodoxy at a crossroads. (Orthodox Church)
January 1, 1994... The Influence of the Orthodox Church on the History and Culture of Eastern Europe In the 1970s Alexander Solzhenitsyn, the Nobel Prize-winning Russian writer, an Orthodox Christian, spoke of Russia's future emergence from "under the...

Romania: orthodox theological education, 1948 to the present.
January 1, 1994... The situation of theology--a general term for the teaching of theology, the theological institutions, faculties and seminaries, the research studies and publications in the field of theology, professors and teachers--is totally conditioned by...

The Catholic Church in Eastern Europe after communism.
January 1, 1994... Forty-five years of totalitarian communist rule, dedicated to eradicating all religious beliefs and practices, inhibited normal religious life in the countries of Central and Eastern Europe but was unable to destroy it entirely. Before the...

A church reborn. (Ukraine)
January 1, 1994... Growing up in rural Saskatchewan, Canada in many ways was good preparation for living in Ukraine. Tens of thousands of Ukrainians immigrated to Saskatchewan at the turn of the century. Among them were my great grandparents. The culture and...

The Armenian Church: a new people, a new era, a new struggle.
January 1, 1994... The Armenian Apostolic Orthodox Church traces her origins to the apostolic era. Primary sources regarding the history of Armenia relate that the Church of Christ was established in Armenia through the evangelical efforts of two of the twelve...

About Armenia.
January 1, 1994... Located south of the Caucasus mountains between the Black sea and the Caspian Sea, Armenia is a region of both rugged mountain ranges and semi-arid highlands that embraces, among other things, "the mountain of Ararat"--the point, according to...

The Protestant churches in Eastern Europe: a new era.
January 1, 1994... A man awakened one day, according to a German story, to find himself tightly bound, hand and foot. Gradually, and with great effort, he learned to move about again, to take care of himself, and eventually to execute fancy flips. He built a new...

From "green holidays" to a weathered grave: impressions of the Russian spring.
January 1, 1994... (The author lectured in Moscow and Belarus and visited Ukraine and Lithuania in June, 1993. What follows are some of his impressions.) Pentecost is known to Russian folk by another name--Zelenye Svyatki (Green Holidays). While Easter...

Disciplines for Christian Living.
January 1, 1994... By Thomas Ryan New York/Mahwah: Paulist Press 1993, 274 pp., $12.95 The title of this volume is deceptively simple. While the book is an easily readable, practical hands-on type of spiritual reading work, it is also profoundly rooted in the...

A Legend of Holy Women: A Translation of Osbern Bokenham's Legends of Holy Women.
January 1, 1994... Sheila Delany, Translator Notre Dame: University of Notre Dame Press 1992, 240 pp, $29.95 cloth, $14.95 paper Are you looking for a hero to emulate? Then this book IN is not for you--not unless you look forward to being boiled in oil, drawn...

Genesis, Creation and Creationism.
January 1, 1994... By Lloyd R. Bailey New York/Mahwah: Paulist Press 1993, 259 pp., $14.95 In the early 1960s I wandered into my junior high social studies class to find myself surrounded by a large mural of primates, humans and layers of rocks. By...