Metropolitan Hierotheos of Nafpaktos on the Immaculate Conception

  No one is born free of the ancestral sin. The fall of Adam and Eve and its consequences were inherited by the whole human race. Of course even the Panagia could not be freed from the ancestral sin. The words of the Apostle Paul are clear: “for all have sinned and fall short of […]

Ecumenical Patriarch Bartholomew on the Immaculate Conception

In this interview Bartholomew I, Ecumenical Patriarch of Constantinople, comments on the Latin dogma of the “Immaculate Conception”. Interviewer: The Catholic Church this year celebrates the hundred and fiftieth anniversary of the proclamation of the dogma of the Immaculate Conception. How does the Eastern Christian and Byzantine Tradition celebrate the Conception of Mary and her […]