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he stood for orthodox Catholic teaching), and he found himself waylaid by other students, who called him a macho bigot. He told me he only found one other kid in the entire school who agrees with ...

On the Saturday before Holy Week, the Orthodox Church commemorates a major feast of the year, the miracle of our Lord and Savior Jesus Christ when he raised Lazarus from the dead after he had lain in ...

Propagandists forged a prayer card and a priest’s post on Facebook to sow discord in Ukrainian society — Ukrinform.

Built between the 16th and late-19th centuries on the boundary of Western and Eastern cultures, these wooden Orthodox and Catholic churches are a unique ... it was a place of worship, as well as a ...

For example, Orthodox Christians allowed their clergy to marry, while Catholic Christian priests ... that the bread and wine he held were symbols of Christ's body and blood and that he was ready ...

What the Catechism of the Catholic Church says on "The Trinity ... came to recognize and receive the Symbol of 381. The use of this formula in the Creed was gradually admitted into the Latin ...

At its core, it's a solemn season focused on faith and sacrifice, but there's so much more to know about its history, symbolism and rules. While traditions vary depending on different branches of ...

A group of Orthodox monks in upstate New York takes the Christian imperative to care for creation more literally than most religious communities.

Pope Francis expressed hope for “reconciled differences” between Catholic, Orthodox, and Protestant Christians during his Wednesday general audience, reflecting on the centuries-old ...

Catholicos Aboon Mor Baselios Thomas I, the spiritual head of the Syrian Orthodox Church’s Jacobite faction in ... the Church “even at the cost of his life,” added Thattil. The Catholic Bishops’ ...