{"id":25497,"date":"2010-04-16T19:34:58","date_gmt":"2010-04-16T23:34:58","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/communio.stblogs.org\/index.php\/2010\/04\/dolan-reflects-on-his-visit-to\/"},"modified":"2010-04-16T19:34:58","modified_gmt":"2010-04-16T23:34:58","slug":"dolan-reflects-on-his-visit-to","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/communio.stblogs.org\/index.php\/2010\/04\/dolan-reflects-on-his-visit-to\/","title":{"rendered":"Dolan in Syria and Lebanon: the deep sacred roots of the churches, places and people in the story of our redemption"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/communio.stblogs.org\/CNEWA%20Syria%202010.jpeg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" alt=\"CNEWA Syria 2010.jpeg\" src=\"https:\/\/communio.stblogs.org\/assets_c\/2010\/04\/CNEWA Syria 2010-thumb-275x210-6183.jpeg\" width=\"275\" height=\"210\" class=\"mt-image-right\" style=\"float: right; margin: 0 0 20px 20px;\" \/><\/a>As bishop, I am told, you are asked to sit on boards and be a voice for causes that you may not have too much interest in or knowledge of. While to the new Archbishop Dolan&#8217;s portfolio as the archbishop of New York, he is the chairman of the board of the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.cnewa.org\/default.aspx\">Catholic Near East Welfare Association<\/a> (CNEWA) and is learning lots of new and beautiful things about the Church in other parts of the world. He made a recent trip to the Middle East with members of the governing board which opened his eyes to a new reality of what it is like to be an Eastern Christian. John Cardinal Foley, Grand Master of the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.holysepulchre.net\/\">Equestrian Order of Holy Sepulchre of Jerusalem<\/a> accompanied the CNEWA board. The archbishop learned the beautiful horizons of the East and the limits thereof.<\/p>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>Read Archbishop Dolan&#8217;s <a href=\"http:\/\/blog.archny.org\/\">reflections on his visit<\/a> to the Middle East last week. I found it interesting and insightful and I hope it does the same for you.<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>I am going to be shameless here. When I was at the Catholic Information Service at the Knights of Columbus I commissioned my friend, Father Steven Hawkes-Teeples, SJ, professor Theology at the Oriental Institute in Rome to write a booklet on basics of Eastern Christianity. The old booklet just didn&#8217;t serve the needs of our readers and something more up-to-date was needed, especially since Catholic Church has more than one expression of herself. The booklet, <i><a href=\"http:\/\/www.kofc.org\/un\/eb\/en\/resources\/cis\/CIS342.pdf\">The Eastern Christians and Their Churches<\/a><\/i>, is worth a thorough read.<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>As bishop, I am told, you are asked to sit on boards and be a voice for causes that you may not have too much interest in or knowledge of. While to the new Archbishop Dolan&#8217;s portfolio as the archbishop of New York, he is the chairman of the board of the Catholic Near East &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/communio.stblogs.org\/index.php\/2010\/04\/dolan-reflects-on-his-visit-to\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Dolan in Syria and Lebanon: the deep sacred roots of the churches, places and people in the story of our redemption<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[64,14,57],"tags":[1712,2176,1980,1978],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/communio.stblogs.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25497"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/communio.stblogs.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/communio.stblogs.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/communio.stblogs.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/communio.stblogs.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=25497"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/communio.stblogs.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25497\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/communio.stblogs.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=25497"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/communio.stblogs.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=25497"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/communio.stblogs.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=25497"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}