While Pope Francis previously announced plans to travel to Turkey, one possible obstacle to a universal agreement could be ...

At 66, Metropolitan Emmanuel of Chalcedon released a new book, Free Children of God, on March 13. The right-hand man of ...

The recent trends of religious conversion have not rattled Kosovo’s politicians. Kosovo has been long seeking membership into the European Union, selling itself to the world as a multi-ethnic and ...

Bookish and not charming in appearance, Benedict was the champion of a Catholic orthodoxy that valued consistent, correct, and universal doctrine as paramount. He was not afraid to use his ...

When the Roman Empire began collapsing, Christianity prevailed and the Roman Catholic Church kept its territories together.

Sir, - I was surprised to find Fintan O'Toole writing (August 22nd) that an essential feature of Catholic orthodoxy is "the belief that the State should be run according to the rules for the time ...

No doubt the Pope was also interested in building Church unity, both with Armenian Rite Catholics in union with Rome as well as Orthodoxy in Armenia. As St. John Paul II was wont to note ...

Catholics have been told this at least since ... hypothetically revolve around the sun but without challenging the orthodoxy that they do no such thing, since the church had long taught that ...

The theatrical genius of the “sin of certainty” speech is that it combined two opposites — an office that exists for orthodoxy is to be held by a man who doubts. The Catholic understanding i ...

“Catholic ministers may lawfully administer ... “We renew our commitment to doctrinal orthodoxy and liturgical orthopraxy, and we will strive to avoid future errors,” the text adds.

The pontiff’s bout with double pneumonia, and warnings that he could be significantly diminished, have accelerated ...

The last descendant of the Byzantine Emperor Constantine Palaiologos is buried in the most unlikely of places - on the island ...