Blase Cardinal Cupich reminded the faithful to keep fresh in their minds Christ's Resurrection as they go through their ...

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 ...

African outreach was among Pope Francis' legacies, observers say, with numerous visits and a message of mercy inspiring ...

Greek Orthodox and other Eastern Orthodox churches around the Chicago area also held Palm ... on the same schedule as the Roman Catholic Church. Palm Sunday commemorates Jesus Christ's triumphant ...

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 ...

Cardinal Robert Prevost has been elected the first American pope in the 2,000-year history of the Catholic Church.

He attended Villanova University, Catholic Theological Union in Chicago and the Pontifical ... the spiritual leader of the Eastern Orthodox Church. Pope Leo XIV celebrates his first Mass in ...

Born Robert Francis Prevost on Chicago’s South Side ... David Solheim, an Eastern Orthodox Christian from Phoenix, traveled to Rome for the conclave. “I came out to Rome specifically for ...

The Catholic Church has a new leader ... the central Christian creed was formulated. Francis and Eastern Orthodox Ecumenical Patriarch Bartholomew of Constantinople had long planned to travel ...

The election of Robert Francis Prevost as the Catholic Church’s 267th pontiff stunned audiences ... for Russia’s Victory Day parade. The West Side of Chicago is well-known for its Eastern European ...

The Catholic Church has a new leader ... The late Pope Francis and Eastern Orthodox Ecumenical Patriarch Barthlomew of Constantinople had long planned to travel to Nicaea together.