Notice: Function _load_textdomain_just_in_time was called incorrectly. Translation loading for the health-check domain was triggered too early. This is usually an indicator for some code in the plugin or theme running too early. Translations should be loaded at the init action or later. Please see Debugging in WordPress for more information. (This message was added in version 6.7.0.) in /nas/content/live/brownpelican/wp-includes/functions.php on line 6121

Notice: Function _load_textdomain_just_in_time was called incorrectly. Translation loading for the mfn-opts domain was triggered too early. This is usually an indicator for some code in the plugin or theme running too early. Translations should be loaded at the init action or later. Please see Debugging in WordPress for more information. (This message was added in version 6.7.0.) in /nas/content/live/brownpelican/wp-includes/functions.php on line 6121
Why We Need the Eastern Churches, in Pope Leo XIV’s Own Words, by Dr. R. Jared Staudt – Brown Pelican Society of Lousiana

Why We Need the Eastern Churches, in Pope Leo XIV’s Own Words, by Dr. R. Jared Staudt

The Under-the-Radar Growth of Catholic Commitment, Phil Lawler
June 14, 2025
Saint of the Day for June 14: Saint Albert Chmielowski (August 20, 1845 – December 25, 1916)
June 14, 2025

Ahmed. Unsplash. Possibly an 'Eastern Catholic Church'

By Dr. R. Jared Staudt, Catholic World Report, June 12, 2025

R. Jared Staudt PhD, serves as Director of Content for Exodus 90 and as an instructor for the lay division of St. John Vianney Seminary. ….

 

Pope Leo has already, in the first few weeks of his pontificate, pointed to a few ways the Western lung can find inspiration for its Eastern counterpart.

“The Church needs you.”

In the first week of his pontificate, Pope Leo XIV spoke these words to members of the Eastern Catholic Churches gathered in Rome to celebrate the Jubilee. On June 2nd, he also honored an Eastern Catholic martyr, Blessed Iuliu Hossu, the Greek-Catholic Bishop of Cluj-Gherla. These providential encounters with the Christian East remind us of John Paul II’s insistent cry in Ut Unum Sint: “the Church must breathe with her two lungs!”

Pope Leo’s address for the Eastern Catholic Jubilee points to a few ways the Western lung can find inspiration for its Eastern counterpart. …

Continue reading >>>>>>>>>>>