The Dicastery for the Eastern Churches has prepared a pastoral guide for the 2025 Jubilee of the Eastern Churches to be ...

As Catholic Christians, we are taught to forgive others, to reconcile with our neighbor, to seek out amicable ways to end grudges and angry separations; yet we have been part of a grudge ...

VATICAN CITY – Pope Francis baptized 21 babies in the Sistine Chapel on Sunday under the ceiling frescoed by Michelangelo, in what has become an annual tradition that marks the end of the ...

Belisarius mosaic. Credit: Petar Milošević. CC BY-4.0/Wikimedia Commons/Petar Milosevic Belisarius is the much underrated military commander of the Byzantine Empire who led the armies of Justinian I ...

He was a Byzantine emperor who reigned from 491 to 518 CE. Born around 430 CE in Dyrrhachium (modern-day Albania), and was originally a high-ranking official in the Byzantine civil service before ...

If you think you might want to drink in celebration of the New Year when the clock strikes midnight, you might want to stock up on the booze beforehand. Since there is no state law in New Jersey ...

Rue21, Rite Aid and Big Lots all closed stores in 2024. Other closings in south-central Pennsylvania in 2024 included bank branches, warehouses, manufacturing plants, movie theaters, and family ...

First, the Byzantine Rite, which guides much of Ukrainians’ religious traditions, forbids instruments in church. Also, Kuzma said, there was staggering poverty that Ukrainians endured after ...

The textbooks say the Byzantine Empire was a theocratic autocracy uniting church and state under an all-powerful emperor believed by the Byzantines to be God’s viceroy and vicar. Nonsense ...