We Ukrainians want peace more than anyone else. We have been praying for peace for eleven years, and we believe that one day it will finally come. Not a peace that means unconditional surrender to ...

With the intention of preserving Byzantine spiritual wisdom, Greek monk Nicodemus devoted his life to writing the massive tome Philokalia.

Fitzpatrick highlighted four principles central to the St. Gregory Academy’s mission: Children are happier without ...

Msgr. Stephan Lipke received episcopal consecration as the new Auxiliary Bishop of the vast diocese of Novosibirsk. Born in Germany, a Jesuit by vocational choice, in Russia motivated by missionary ...

In a bizarre incident, two brothers from Madhya Pradesh clashed over their father's funeral rites. The older, intoxicated brother insisted on splitting the body for separate cremations.

Shares of RITES Ltd., the state-run railway company fell on Tuesday, January 28, after the company declared its December quarter results, which were lower on a year-on-year basis on all parameters.

Justice Sharma's opinion, which runs into 18 pages, only addressed the issue in the context of: whether the fundamental right to conduct last rites as per one's specific religion or could extend ...

“Decades ago, a document from the then-Congregation for Catholic Education prescribed that all Latin seminaries should teach about the Eastern Churches. But it is probably one of the most ...

It is now the oldest Easter Catholic Church in the Chicagoland ... five different language groups who practice the ancient Byzantine rite, which prioritizes chanting, mysticism and asceticism.

Tough guy Rocky Sullivan (James Cagney) and Catholic priest Jerry Connolly (Pat O’Brien) were boyhood friends who took different paths. Sullivan becomes the idol of a group of boys whom Connolly ...

Empress Theodora at the Hippodrome of Constantinople. Credit: Louis Hector Leroux, Wikimedia Commons, Public domain Women played diverse and influential roles in the Byzantine Empire that extended far ...