(Credit: CNS photo/Laura Ieraci via CNEWA) Listen CHICAGO — Eastern Catholics in the Chicago ... including a member of the Orthodox Church of America. “It was like being with brothers and ...

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 ...

EASTERN ORTHODOX CHURCHES. There are many parallels between the beliefs of the Eastern Orthodox church and those of the Roman Catholic church, but there are also fundamental differences. Some of the ...

"May he help end wars in Ukraine, the Middle East, and prevent conflict between India and Pakistan," Ecumenical Patriarch ...

A priest suggested that Demetrios Kantzavelos pen a book. Twenty years later, the priest's widow helped bring it to fruition.

Yet in a distinction that dates back centuries, Orthodox ... leader of Eastern Orthodox believers worldwide – endorsed the establishment of an independent Orthodox Church of Ukraine and revoked ...

and author of The Evangelical Theology of the Orthodox Church. This is by far the best book on Eastern Orthodoxy available today—a classic, worthy of the name. For 60 years, it has been the ...

So today, Eastern Christians consider April 3 as the first day of spring while Western Christians use the more astronomically accurate date of March 21, said Demacopoulos. The Orthodox Church also ...

Eastern Orthodox churches use the older Julian calendar, established by Julius Caesar. In 325 A.D., more than 300 bishops representing different factions of the Christian church met in what is now ...