In 325, the Council of Nicaea forbade kneeling on the Lord’s Day and in the days of Pentecost. The 1,700th anniversary of the council provides the American church with an opportunity to reexamine our ...

(RNS) — In the United States, Catholics kneel during the Eucharistic prayer while Catholics in the rest of the world stand. Many European churches, especially the older ones, do not even have kneelers ...

In the summer of A.D. 325, more than 300 bishops gathered in Nicaea — located in modern-day northern Turkey — to promulgate a common Christian creed, settle Christological disputes that arose from the ...

From the beginning of his election as the successor to St. Peter, Pope Leo XIV has summoned the Church to a renewed faith in the one Savior. As he said emphatically in the opening Mass of his ...

Well, it’s about time. I’m not suggesting that we’ve all been waiting with bated breath for the 1700 th anniversary of the Council of Nicaea (May 325 CE) to finally arrive. Probably very few of us ...

Pope Leo XIV greets participants attending a conference on the ecumenical implications of the 1,700th anniversary of the Council of Nicaea June 7, 2025, in the Clementine Hall of the Apostolic Palace ...

In June of the year 325, the first Ecumenical Council began in Nicaea, convened by the Emperor Constantine. Among the many topics discussed, which we will try to address briefly, two in particular ...

Pope Leo XIV on Saturday said the Catholic Church is open to establishing a common date of Easter among all Christian churches, echoing one of the aims of the Council of Nicaea that met 1,700 years ...

A Catholic archbishop in Turkey has termed the commemoration of the 1700 th anniversary of the Ecumenical Council of Nicaea as “an opportunity for ecumenical dialogue and unity.” Archbishop Martin ...

Cardinal Kurt Koch and Patriarch Bartholomew I, Eastern Orthodox ecumenical patriarch of Constantinople, addressed the 1,700th anniversary of the Council of Nicaea being celebrated in 2025 during the ...

ONEONTA — Orthodox Archbishop the Rev. Michael Dahulich will present a seminar on the Council of Nicaea, at 6:30 p.m. Tuesday, July 29, at the 34th annual Theology Institute at Hartwick College.