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For Christians and Muslims, faith and reason do not conflict and are nonviolent

Faith and reason are both gifts of God, do not contradict each other and are by nature nonviolent, even if sometimes they have been used to justify violence.  This appears to the central conclusion of the meeting held at  the Vatican between the Pontifical Council for Interreligious Dialogue and the Iranian Islamic Culture and Relations Organisation. 

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The Catholic Messenger

messaggero-cattolico.jpg Moscow (AsiaNews) - Last week, the new Catholic monthly of the archdiocese of the Mother of God in Moscow was launched, "The Catholic Messenger - Sviet Yevangelia" (the light of the Gospel, in the photo).  The name itself demonstrates the desire to "continue" the previous diocesan weekly, "Sviet Yevangelia".  This weekly, created in the 1990's, stopped publishing last December.

The edition of the new monthly has been completely overhauled, as have the format, the contents, and the publishing schedule.  The new director is a Dominican friar, Fr Alexander Khmelnitsky.

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Orthodox Easter
The Eastern Rite Churches, Orthodox and Catholics alike, celebrate Easter on Sunday, April 27. Why an entire month after our own celebration of the feast? The Council of Nicea, held in 325, discussed and defined the "Easter matter," among those who wished to celebrate the feast according to the Gospel of St. John, which situates Christ death on the afternoon of the 14th day of the Hebrew month of Nisan (followers of this opinion were called quartodecimani); and those who followed the other three Evangelists, who situate the event on the 15th, that is, coinciding with the Hebrew feast of Pessach.
In spite of the difficulties, the Church "univocally" celebrated Easter from 387 until 1582, when the Patriarch of Constantinople, Jeremiah II, rejected the calendar reformed by Pope Gregory XIII. Although since then, Easter has never returned to the univocal celebration - excluding the years when the calendars coincide - in both celebrations, one can certainly see common and specific aspects.
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On Cyril and Methodius
santi-cirillo-metodio.jpgDear brothers and sisters:

Today, I would like to speak about Sts. Cyril and Methodius, brothers of the same parents and in the faith, known as the apostles to the Slavic people. Cyril was born in Thessalonica, son of the imperial magistrate Leon, in 826-827. He was the youngest of seven children. As a child, he learned the Slavic language. At age 14, he was sent to Constantinople to be educated and was accompanied by the young emperor, Michael III. During those years, he was introduced into the various university disciplines, among others, dialectics, and had Photius as his teacher. After having rejected a brilliant matrimony, he decided to receive holy orders and became the librarian in the patriarchate. Shortly afterward, wanting to retreat from society, he hid himself in a monastery, but soon was discovered and entrusted with teaching sacred and profane sciences, a task that he fulfilled so well that he won the title of "philosopher."
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