One morning in October of 2023, Miami police were called to remove a “squatter” who had, or so the ecclesiastical complainants claimed, taken up illegal residence in one of South Florida’s oldest ...

The last deaconess of the Armenian Church was Hripsime Sasunian, who died in 2007. A decade after her death, in 2017, ...

How Christianity blurred the line between celibacy and androgyny.

Although the particular churches possess their own hierarchy, differ in liturgical ... shepherd of the rites of the West and the East. The eastern rites which have a separate code of canon law ...

It is the most fundamental and essential teaching in the 'hierarchy of the truths ... a point of disagreement with the Orthodox Churches." 248. "At the outset the Eastern tradition expresses ...

The Byzantine Empire in the 7th century was wrecked by military strife. The empire was halved, with its richest territories ...

Wojtyla ascended rapidly through the Catholic hierarchy after this ... sought reconciliation with various branches of Christianity, including the eastern Orthodox and Anglican churches. However the ...

Celebrating Easter together might seem like a simple expression of union, but it can also breathe new life into efforts ...

Former CIA officer John Kiriakou retracted his claim that the U.S. paid the Ecumenical Patriarchate to grant autocephaly to the Ukrainian Orthodox Church ...

Vladimir Putin accused Jews of attacking the Russian Orthodox Church and suggested that they lacked family and “roots,” the latest antisemitic statement from the Russian leader since his 2022 ...