Pope Leo XIV issues joint blessing with Orthodox Patriarch Bartholomew
Pope Leo concluded his two-day trip to Turkey with a shared blessing alongside Patriarch Bartholomew I before flying out to Beirut, Lebanon.
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Pope Leo lays wreath at grave of Turkish leader Atatürk despite links to anti-Christian genocides
Under the leadership of Kemal Atatürk, the founder of modern Turkey, his forces committed widespread murder and persecution of Greek, Armenian, and other Christian minorities.
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Leo XIV grants Orthodox Patriarch Bartholomew a second audience in just 11 days
Pope Leo XIV has already made healing ecumenical relations a priority in his nascent pontificate, emphasizing his desire for achieving unity between the churches.
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Orthodox Patriarch says Pope Leo will visit Nicaea in November
Pope Francis had been due to make the trip this month, to commemorate the 1700th anniversary of the Council of Nicaea, but his ill health forced it to be put on hold.
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Synod cardinal says the Catholic Church needs to be ‘further enriched’ by ‘other churches’
Cardinal Kurt Koch confirmed to LifeSiteNews that study on the role of the pope continues, as the implementation of synodality and ecumenism could change the manner of how the papacy is understood and exercized.
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