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

In Eastern or Orthodox churches ... predates France’s switch to the Gregorian Calendar. In medieval churches, hierarchy was inverted every New Year’s Day and lower members of the clergy ...

(For the uninitiated, Eastern Orthodoxy, sometimes called “Greek Orthodox” or “Russian ... a very Protestant way of viewing church hierarchy, whereas one might argue that since the ...

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 ...