Imagine stepping into a church that looks fully Orthodox—icons, incense, chanting, bearded priests—but it's actually Catholic ...

Orthodox leaders offered their condolences following the death of Pope Francis, remembering his sustained commitment to ...

Christians around the world will celebrate on the same day this year, a relative rarity. Pope Francis would like to make it ...

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

When we think of Rome and the Pope, we don't necessarily think of a Greek Pope. However, many Popes in the past had been of ...

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

A Moscow Patriarchate official praised Pope Francis for fostering ties between the Russian Orthodox and Roman Catholic ...

Pope Francis, the first Latin American leader of the Roman Catholic Church, passed away as announced by the Vatican. His ...

A top official of the Moscow Patriarchate has lauded the role played by late Pope Francis in developing contacts of Catholics ...

Easter Monday is not a federal holiday in the United States, meaning government offices, post offices and banks remain open.

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

For more than 400 years, Catholic and Orthodox churches have ... when the Western church adopted the Gregorian calendar while the Eastern Orthodox Church kept the older Julian one.