Thousands of people began filing through St. Peter’s Basilica to pay their final respects to Pope Francis on Wednesday at the ...

Pope Francis bows his head in prayer during his election night appearance on the central balcony of St. Peter's Basilica ...

The Eastern Orthodox and Roman Catholic observances overlap only every three to four years thanks to different church calendars — and different lunar cycle calculations.

The Holy Light arrived in Greece on Holy Saturday and will be making its way across the country as Greeks prepare to mark ...

Western churches adopted the Gregorian calendar in 1582, while the Eastern Orthodox Church kept the older Julian one.

Holding unlit candles, they pack into the sprawling 12th century basilica built on the site where, according to tradition, ...

Orthodox Christians in Germany are grateful for that, and long for more.Millions of Orthodox Christians currently live in ...

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

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

In all, "The extension of a cholera outbreak in Africa causing a cluster of infections in Europe is unusual," the authors ...

This special deep dive episode of “Inside the Vatican” unravels what made the Council of Nicaea groundbreaking 1,700 years ...