BOOK PICK: Do we know why an Orthodox ... Catholic home should have a crucifix. We routinely and reverently make the Sign of the Cross when we bless ourselves. The new book The Cross: A Universal ...

Pope Francis has added Saint Isaac the Syrian (640-700) to the list of saints celebrated by the Roman Catholic Church. Born ...

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 ...

For centuries, it was Catholic tradition to kiss the papal foot ... may be the most powerful symbol of a pontiff's authority. As soon as a pope dies, the ring is immediately destroyed in order ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

A Conversation with Peter Seewald, p. 86). With interest and sympathy the Catholic Church – and I personally – follow the development of Orthodox communities in Western Europe, which in recent ...

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’ ...