Each year on Aug. 5 the church liturgical calendar commemorates the dedication of St. Mary Major (in Italian, Santa Maria Maggiore), one of the five great ancient basilicas in Rome, and ...

For more than 50 years, Spyridon Denaxas has prayed, worked and welcomed the faithful in an island monastery carved into a seaside cliff that’s little changed since its founding more ...

The icon, by pious tradition painted by St. Luke ... Last year, for the 80th anniversary of the liberation of Rome, a local feast day was observed in the Diocese of Rome for the Blessed Mother ...

The Feast of the Assumption is a weeklong festival ... It was in A.D. 431, at the Third Ecumenical Council, in Ephesus, that she was officially named Theotokos, Bearer of God.

Tradition holds that Byzantine monks fleeing persecution in the Middle East in the 9th century sailed to this mountainous island with an icon of the ... “This is an ecumenical monastery, open ...

On the outside, there is a small bell, while on the inside, which only holds two people, there is a recess where the visitor can light his candle, a candelabrum, an icon ... of the Ecumenical ...

During his 12-year pontificate, Francis took important, even historical, ecumenical initiatives. In 2016, he became the first pope ever to meet the head of the Russian Orthodox Church. Pope ...

The Ecumenical Bishops Forum expressed its deepest sympathies to the passing of Pope Francis whom they praised for his compassion, humility, and unwavering faith. “As the world mourns the passing of ...