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

For a particularly meaningful way to visit Rome’s major churches - and to sidestep the crowds - try following in the ...

The Borgias became prominent in both ecclesiastical and political affairs, producing two popes: Alfons de Borja, who ruled as ...

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 ...

There exists today a tiny enclave of Calabrian Greeks, Greek-speaking people in Reggio Calabria, Italy, that seem to have ...

The Dome of the Rock was built by Caliph Abd al-Malik ibn Marwan. This dazzling piece of architectural brilliance is one of the oldest and most revered Islamic monuments. Adorned with intricate ...

Pope Leo XIV addressed thousands of representatives from the 23 Eastern Catholic Churches, gathered at the Vatican’s Paul VI ...

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

While Trump rushed to the White House driveway to praise the Chicago-born and Villanova-educated Leo, his legion of fans were ...

A decade later, then-Cardinal Prevost turned his eye to Vance, a convert to Catholicism just six years ... The stealth contender broke through the byzantine Vatican politics and may yet break ...

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