The peoples of our world desire peace,” Pope Leo XIV said, “and to their leaders I appeal with all my heart: Let us meet, let ...

when the Western church adopted the Gregorian calendar while the Eastern Orthodox Church kept the older Julian one. Moreover, each church uses its own ecclesiastical calculations for lunar cycles ...

Hidden deep within the forest, this abandoned Eastern Orthodox Ukrainian church stands as a quiet testament to faith and history. Surrounded by nature’s embrace, its once vibrant icons and intricate ...

But as the years go by, the calendars used by churches — the Gregorian calendar by Western Catholics and Protestants and the Julian calendar by Eastern Orthodox churches — continue to diverge.

At the headquarters of the Ecumenical Patriarchate in Istanbul, Orthodox clergy and faithful welcomed the May 8 election of ...

But while most Western churches calculate the date using the Gregorian calendar introduced by Pope Gregory XIII in 1582, Eastern Orthodox churches use the older Julian calendar, established by ...

Most Eastern Christians in union with Rome use the Gregorian calendar, he noted; tensions between Orthodox Churches caused by the Ukraine War, in fact, led both the Ruthenians in Europe and the ...