Many sacred beliefs of our Catholic faith can be traced to the 21 ecumenical councils held since the fourth century.

In a new essay, Aleksandr Šipkov goes so far as to point the finger at the philologist who, in the 1990s, helped Russia rediscover both Eastern and Western Christian traditions through his lect ...

We are Slovak!” my grandfather would yell. Emphatically, my father would bellow back, “We are Rusyn!” And so it went, until ...

New World” and “Old World” are concepts still widely used to refer to the Western and Eastern Hemispheres, respectively, ...

When someone accepts election as pontiff, there undergoes a change in that individual, not only in life purpose in leading ...

Young people on these campuses say they desire to encounter the faith and to evangelize through beauty and in accordance with ...

Pfingstmontag (Whit Monday) is a public holiday in Germany, which falls this year on June 9th, but why is it a day off in the ...

Pope Leo, the new head of the Catholic Church, takes responsibility not just for 1.4 billion souls, but also for a complex ...

Walking the steep cliffs between the Omaha and Utah beaches that Army Rangers climbed 81 years ago, Michael McGrail was amazed to see a sign from home. There, during a trip to Normandy in April, ...

The Catechism lists seven rites. These rites so listed: Latin, Byzantine, Alexandrian, Syriac, Armenian, Maronite, and Chaldean,2 are actually families of liturgical expression. These rites are ...

Within Roman Catholicism, Eastern Orthodoxy, and similar traditions, formal blessings of the church are performed by bishops, priests, and sometimes deacons, but as in many other religions ...

The Trump administration will impact not only the ability of Catholic organizations to carry out their work globally—it could also profoundly reshape the spirit of American Catholicism.