they wore crowns and carried burning candles as they stumbled through a 1,000-year-old Russian Orthodox ritual that 70 years of communism never completely squelched. Their wedding two Fridays ago ...

The Russian Orthodox Church has defrocked a priest for ... They took their vows in a small chapel, exchanging rings, circling the altar and donning crowns as in a traditional Orthodox wedding.

I replied that wedding crowns are part of the ceremony of marriage in many churches. The Latin rite of the Catholic Church does not use them, but the Eastern rites and the Orthodox do. But the ...

The Russian Orthodox Church has a complex hierarchy. Let's find out which members of the clergy are allowed to have a family. If you meet a married man who is not wearing a wedding ring ...