Tag: John Paul

Pope John Paul II declared a saint?

OCP- April 27, 2014

Croat Military and Religious leaders praising the brutality of the Ustaše regime Jasenovac body count Garsijanovski 27/4/14 I heard about the canonization of Karol Vojtila ... Read More

Pope John Paul II and the Balkan Connection

OCP- April 27, 2014

Late Pope John Paul II pray at the tomb of Archbishop Alojzije Stepinac Translated by Kisha D Dorado (OCP Delegate of Serbia, Balkan and East ... Read More

The imperial papacy

OCP- February 16, 2013

Gwynne Dyer - 16/2/13 IT’S the ROMAN Catholic Church, not the Republican Catholic Church or the People’s Revolutionary Socialist Democratic Catholic Church. Its rigid hierarchy ... Read More

Vatican lights Christmas tree from Ukraine

OCP- December 18, 2011

17/12/2011 VATICAN CITY The Vatican on Friday lit its traditional St. Peter’s Square Christmas tree, which, this year, came as a gift from Ukraine. Hundreds ... Read More

Pope Meets Sarkisian, Hails ‘Good Relations’ With Armenia

OCP- December 13, 2011

12.12.2011 Pope Benedict XVI met with President Serzh Sarkisian on Monday to discuss ways of deepening what the Vatican described as “good relations” existing between ... Read More

Poland’s Holy Hill of Grabarka draws Orthodox Christian Pilgrims

OCP- August 21, 2011

By Gabriela Baczynska in Grabarka, Poland 20/8/2011 Some 15,000 Orthodox Christian pilgrims carried crosses, drank holy water and prayed on Friday at a hill in ... Read More

Muslim woman performs Epiphany ablution in Tatarstan

OCP- January 29, 2011

Kazan, January 20, Interfax - A Muslim woman participated in the Epiphany bathing in the Raifa Holy Virgin Monastery not far from Kazan. The girl ... Read More