It is chanted in all Orthodox Churches throughout the world during the five Fridays in Great Lent and constitutes a very ...

MANILA: For Catholics, Lent means a period of sacrifice. Often, we think of this in terms of food: abstaining from meat on ...

Unveiling the story behind the rarely talked about Lenten practice  For Catholics, Lent means a period of sacrifice. Often, ...

A Greek Orthodox monastery in Italy, founded more than one thousand years ago is thriving just south of Rome in the epicenter ...

It is often said that veiling is a form of fasting for the eyes, allowing church-goers to focus solely on Christ’s passion, the center of Holy Week.

Prayer Books and service books used during the service were taken ... Ecumenical guests from the Russian Orthodox Church, Greek Orthodox Church, the Lutheran Council and the Roman Catholic Diocese of ...

The Vatican has entered into an agreement with China aimed at ending division between two Catholic communities ...

The second, and even more significant, move toward reverence was turning ad orientem, that is, the priest at the altar facing ...

Sometimes this problem is used to defame the Catholic Church. As an example, John Ankerberg and John Weldon in their book, The Facts on Roman Catholicism, write: Catholicism teaches that Scripture ...