Across Chicago, Eastern Christians with roots in the ... Orthodox Christmas celebrations Friday at St. Paul Coptic Orthodox Mission Church. At St. Paul, about 150 congregation members will join ...

(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 ...

Church leaders in the Christian East ... of the Syro-Malabar Catholic Eparchy of St. Thomas of Chicago, where Pope Leo XIV was born, said Eastern Catholics "anticipate a renewed focus on ...

The Orthodox and Catholic Churches have a united celebration in 2025, for the first time in eight years. Father John Basarab, pastor of Epiphany of Our Lord Byzantine Catholic Church, celebrates ...

Christians around the world observe Lent to varying degrees, but none with more zeal than the Eastern Orthodox, the vast branch of Christendom that split from the western Roman Catholic church a ...

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 ...

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 ...