When I was growing up in the 1950s, what ordinary Catholics experienced was nothing like the curated, elite Latin liturgies that traditionalists enjoy today. The fact is, most Catholics always get ...
“For many Byzantine and Ukrainian Catholics, the Holy Supper and singing of parts of Great Compline are the highlights of the ...
At Epiphany of Our Lord Byzantine Catholic Church in Annandale parishioners recently venerated a rare relic of the ...
The celebration marking the opening of the Grand Egyptian Museum was not a fleeting cultural event, but a collective ritual that reconfigured the relationship between Egyptians and their symbolic ...
Mattingly: The Orthodox baptism rite includes an exorcism that is extremely detailed about the spiritual warfare that ...
St. Andrew's Day is one of the most significant winter holidays of the Orthodox calendar, uniting church traditions and folk ...
A Vatican report on women deacons published last week said that women could not be admitted to the diaconate “understood as a ...
The question is not whether Trump is relevant in many of these stories. This is, after all, an age in which faith, culture and religious doctrines are frequently linked to debates about hot-button ...
Trinity Church Swarthmore: 301 N. Chester Road at College Avenue, Swarthmore, Holy Eucharist Rite II with Christmas Pageant ...
So, Pope Leo’s travels East are more a witness to our shared common heritage, as opposed to an expedition into unknown and ...
From a bird's-eye view high above St. Peter’s Square at the Vatican, a stunning photograph shows the estimated 250,000 ...
Ever wonder why the new year officially starts on January 1? Turns out, you can thank Pope Gregory XIII-and Julius Caesar.