Friday, May 13, 2022
Wednesday, April 27, 2022
Concordat Strengthens Religious, Historical Work
By Jean DuBois
FIRENZE-NUOVA ROMA 27 April 2022 (NRom)
The Pontifical Household of the Imperial Roman Church (Gallo-Russo-Byzantine Catholicate and Anglican Patriarchate of Rome) and the Pontifical Roman State recently signed a concordat with the Royal Merovingian Dynasty. Once the rulers of France before Charlemagne, the Merovingian household is one of the most ancient royal and noble families in the world today. The Merovingian dynasty is also the temporal head of the Gallican Rite of the Catholic Church, which, in addition to having its own Primate, is under the spiritual leadership of the Gallo-Russo-Byzantine Catholicate. This concordat, signed by Rutherford I and Don Rubén de Gévaudan, builds on an established and long-lasting partnership for religious service, humanitarian work, and the preservation of the traditions and history of our common ethnic heritage.
Sunday, April 17, 2022
Blessing Ex Urbe for Easter 2022
FIRENZE-NUOVA ROMA 17 April 2022 (NRom)
Video of the Blessing Ex Urbe for Easter 2022.
Thursday, April 14, 2022
Archfather sends Holy Thursday Letter
Holy Thursday letter of His Holiness the Florentine-Roman Papa, traditionally sent to priests, clergy, and lay leadership.
This year our Lenten journey saw much of the world torn apart, as it has been so many times in history, by hatred, bigotry, ignorance, and fear. As we know from the prophet Isaiah, however, the people that walked in darkness shall see a great light. That light is Christ. Tomorrow we commemorate our Lord as Victim, and Sunday we celebrate His glorious Resurrection. The light of Christ triumphed and will continue to triumph forever.
We recall again that the Roman State that is Our sacred duty to maintain was the foundation of modern society. It was built on ancient values of rationality, community, courage, and virtue. When the light of Christ illuminated the empire, those values were brought into their fullest, meaningful form. They went from being merely a means of good living to being the path to eternal life.
To ensure that we may each have the hope of eternal life, on this day so many years ago, our Lord established the Holy Eucharist, ordaining the Apostles priests. This day each year we truly celebrate the establishment of the Christian priesthood, for it is truly from the altar of God that all authentic service must flow. God’s holy justice must be maintained rather than abandoned in favour of mere worldly expediency, political maneuvering, or hatred. Yet, that happens all too often in the world.
We give Our fraternal greetings and Our blessing to each of Our brother priests around the world! We especially give Our fraternal greetings in Our blessing to the clergy of the newly-reestablished Gallican Rite of the Catholic Church.
Therefore, We charge each of you this coming Easter season to continue in your Christian service, sustaining and spreading the ideals of our Christian civilisation so that the light of Christ may be seen in each of you and reflected to others.
Rutherfordus Pp. I
Servant of the Servants of Christ
Thursday, April 7, 2022
Papa-Catholicos Receives Prestigious Teaching Award
FIRENZE-NUOVA ROMA 07 April 2022 (NRom)
H.H. Papa Rutherford I, Gallo-Russo-Byzantine Catholicos recently received the Accreditation Council for Business Schools and Programs (ACBSP) Teaching Excellence Award for baccalaureate and graduate degree-granting business institutions, Region 4. Built on the significance of the classroom teacher to the mission of degree-granting institutions, the award is an annual award that recognizes individuals each year who exemplify teaching excellence in the classroom. One recipient is chosen from among associate degree institution applicants, and one from among all baccalaureate/graduate degree institution applicants within each of the eleven ACBSP regions around the world. The selection process evaluates nominees based on a series of criteria, teaching philosophy, and recommendation from university administration. In the summer, one recipient will be selected for the international award. ACBSP is the only specialized accrediting body for business schools that presents an award recognizing excellence in teaching that is open to the entire membership. The award recognized the Archfather's innovations in remote/virtual teaching experiences to benefit on-campus students; innovations in learning experience for online students; real-world, guided discovery experiential learning approaches; creative approaches to availability to students; success in ensuring accessibility to students with disabilities; contributions in diversity, both in and out of the classroom; effective incorporation of cultural and international components in the classroom; outside service to the community, nation, and world; and scholarly contributions to the field of pedagogy.
The Archfather teaches economics, finance, and international business at the University of Minnesota's Crookston campus, with a focus on empowering students to take control of their own future and succeed in an ever-challenging world. He is a graduate of the Harvard University Extension School, Georgia Institute of Technology, and the University of Kentucky College of Agriculture.
Sunday, March 27, 2022
Pontifical Statement on Humanitarian Crisis
FIRENZE-NUOVA ROMA 27 March 2022 (NRom)
The Florentine-Roman Papa is deeply concerned by the worsening humanitarian crisis in Ukraine. According to the United Nations, ongoing fighting in Ukraine has displaced a large number of people, cut off food, water, sanitation, and medical supplies to millions of people, prompting more than three million others to flee their homes and villages, abandoning their crops and livelihoods. Most of the displaced persons are women and children. If this reaches this UN estimates of up to seven million internally displaced persons and as many as seven million refugees, it would be the largest war-related mass migration since the Balkan Wars of the 1990s, potentially involving up to 20 million people. Meanwhile, the disruption of agriculture in the breadbasket of Europe is also disturbing, with the potential to impact millions of people around the world.
In response to this ongoing global situation, Papa Rutherford I, Prince of the Romans and Supreme Pontiff of the Anglican Rite of the Catholic Church released the following Apostolic Letter.
Text of the Apostolic Letter "The Humanitarian Situation in Ukraine."
A deteriorating humanitarian situation in Ukraine has displaced millions of people, leaving them completely reliant on humanitarian assistance offered by other nations and the selfless service of various benevolent organisations. Clearly these circumstances involve complex geopolitical issues. It is made worse by responses fueled by emotions such as fear and hate. Faith in Christ has widely been abandoned and replaced with national pride and special interests. Yet, the issues of human rights and human dignity, regardless of national origin or political affiliation remain of paramount importance. We applaud all who have taken steps to ensure proper humanitarian assistance can be delivered.
Insecurity of the Ukrainian civilian population has been magnified by fallout from the COVID-19 pandemic has made this crisis more complex than others preceding it. World leaders and individuals must both speak soberly and act intelligently, rather than aggravating the situation. Indeed, leaders and representatives of all the world's civil states are pastorally admonished against inflammatory rhetoric that can only serve to inflame passions, prolong conflict, and worsen the situation overall – especially for the civilian population.
Reasonable and legitimate cooperation is essential. We must focus on a brighter, more peaceful future. Indeed, nation-building takes years to achieve. Sadness, hatred, and vitriol around the world must also be conquered if there is to be enduring peace.
We again express our gratitude to all people, regardless of national origin, that are now demonstrating Christian ideals by helping their fellow human beings and by upholding human rights for all people.
The Book of Ecclesiastes tell us: "Tempus belli, et tempus pacis." There is a time for war and a time for peace. Indeed, there is a time for everything. Let us pray for a just end to the present conflict, that all may seek to do the will of God. Pious prayer is critical for a return to a more peaceful, tolerant world built upon Christian brotherhood.
Saturday, March 19, 2022
Apostolic Letter on Current Acts against Ethnic Groups in Europe, Canada, and the United States
Despite all of the laws regarding hate crimes and all the regulations and policies against ethnic discrimination in Europe, Canada, and the United States, the Slavic people in general still find themselves without the same protection and consideration afforded to many others. This in itself shows a deep hypocrisy within the social justice framework of today.
Arbitrary targeting of others based on their heritage and ethnicity once again is widely seen in Europe, Canada, and the United States. In recent decades, it was directed against Muslims, using the attacks of 11 September 2001 as an excuse. In the past two years, it was directed against Asians, using the coronavirus pandemic as an excuse. Government, the media, and even society at large condemned those sentiments and actions.
Now it is Russophobia that is seen, using the military conflict in Ukraine as an excuse. Yet in this case, it is fueled by statements and actions of media, government, and society. Echoing the actions against Muslims and Asians, but arguably to a much higher level, Russians and people of Russian heritage in Europe and the United States have been widely targeted for discrimination, harassment, theft, vandalism, threats, and other teenager-like, emotionally driven, acts fueled by hate and ignorance. Jobs have been lost, property vandalized, rent raised, businesses boycotted, and more, simply based on ethnicity.
Ironically, many of the people targeted by this Russophobia are in fact Ukrainian – the very people in whose favour these bigots claim to be acting. This underscores the fallacy and small-minded nature of taking action against others based on their real or perceived ethnicity or based on their real or perceived associations and beliefs. Those who preach freedom betray their own hypocrisy through their hate-filled actions. Those who claim love of humanity, but single out part of God’s diversity of humanity again betray their own hypocrisy.
Those who engage in or silently tolerate this current round of bigotry should consider the following: Before it was the Muslims. Then it was the Asians. Now it is the Russians and those perceived to be Russian. In a society that tolerates bigotry, next time it may be you and your culture that society decides to target. Then who will stand for you?
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