The Maronite Patriarch, Estephan El Douaihy, will be beatified Aug. 2. We speak with the postulator of his cause about the miracle and the Blessed's legacy.
In the recent weeks, amid the fighting between Hizbullah and Israel, Lebanese public figures and citizens, some of them residents of South Lebanon, have become increasingly furious at Hizbullah for attacking Israel not from Shi'ite localities but rather from Christian, Sunni, and Druze ones, and thus causing Israel to direct its retaliatory fire at these localities. The recent
On October 9, participants in the first session of the 16th Ordinary General Assembly of the Synod of Bishops turned their attention to a new discussion topic: “How can we be more fully a sign and instrument of union with God and of the unity of all humanity?” An Eastern Orthodox prelate also told participants that the Synod he was witnessing in Rome “differs greatly” from the Eastern practice of synodality.