The goal of Nicaea—unity in faith among Christians—remains, but the methodology has changed almost 180 degrees and, if we are ...

Icon from the Mégalo Metéoron Monastery in Greece, representing the First Ecumenical Council of Nikea 325 ... “For this reason, Pope Francis, the Ecumenical Patriarch Bartholomew and other ...

the first ecumenical council intended to address all the churches of Christianity. Though his ongoing recovery from pneumonia may prevent it, Pope Francis had planned to travel to the Turkish city ...

The Council ... Pope Sylvester I in 325. The International Theological Commission (ITC) published the in-depth document “Jesus Christ, Son of God, Savior: The 1,700th Anniversary of the ...

Referring to the joint commemoration of the 1,700th anniversary of the first Ecumenical Council as “a pilgrimage”, Bartholomew suggested a new date for the new pope to visit Turkey ...

The forthcoming Ecumenical Council, to be convened here by Pope John XXIII next October, will probably discuss ways of removing from the Jews the stigma of “slayers of God,” Augustin Cardinal ...

John XXIII, who was elected Pope in 1958, called an ecumenical council, only the twenty-first in the nearly two-thousand-year history of the Church. Paul VI left the Vatican for trips to Bombay ...

An old saying about papal elections goes as follows: “He who enters the conclave as pope, leaves it as a cardinal.” In other words, any candidate seen as the frontrunner before the voting ...

Robert Prevost has been named as the new Pope and will become Francis' successor ... his key act was confirming the Sixth Ecumenical Council's condemnation of Monothelitism - a doctrine suggesting ...