Easter on April Fools' Day is a thing. One of the most important holidays in Christianity, here's when the two coincided ...

The “cradle” vs. “convert” fight comes to Washington.

Ilja, Kirill's spiritual father, had been awarded the highest monastic title, that of ‘archimandrite with the skhima’, a ...

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 ...

Moreover, both the Eastern Orthodox and Eastern Rite Catholic churches allow married clergy ... from the more commodious practice of the early hierarchy. But—a further surprise for my audience ...

We may well be witnessing the emergence of a global right-wing totalitarian agenda in some of the most powerful regions and countries in the world.

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 ...

within the highest hierarchy of the church ... post-Francoist tensions in Spain to the challenges of the church in post-communist Eastern Europe. It was in Colombia that he faced his most ...