Pope Francis has made greater unity with the Orthodox a priority of his pontificate; he has especially expressed his desire ...

Eastern and Western churches will celebrate Easter on the same day this year, while marking 1,700 years since the Council of ...

Orthodox Christians filled a Jerusalem Church to celebrate the Holy Light ceremony, before it is transported to Greece to ...

But the two churches started using different calendars after Pope Gregory XIII’s adaptation in 1582, when the Western church adopted the Gregorian calendar while the Eastern Orthodox Church kept ...

This year, the Eastern Orthodox Church observes Easter on Sunday ... band The Grateful Dead popularized the term. Dave Reddix, a member of the Waldos, told Time magazine in 2017 that he worked ...

With Catholic and Orthodox Easter falling on the same day this year, four parishes in Brooklyn are merging their choirs for a ...

As Vicar of the universal Church, the Pope is shepherd of the rites of the West and the East. The eastern rites which ... to the liturgy used by the Orthodox churches. After the schism between ...