In general, an Orthodox priest is not going to deny a communicant the sacrament because he or she is a homosexual. But if the priest knows that person is sexually active outside of marriage ...

When it comes to the wonders of the mysteries of the sacraments, our Lord, through his church, wants us to understand that the sacraments are: of Christ, of the church, of faith, of salvation and ...

Christians in Syria continue to seek more concrete guarantees, although opinions differ on what form these guarantees should take. Read more ...

Vladimir Putin accused Jews of attacking the Russian Orthodox Church and suggested that they lacked family and “roots,” the latest antisemitic statement from the Russian leader since his 2022 ...

head of the Russian Orthodox Church's (ROC) legal department, in a mid-December statement. “Sacraments such as communion, anointing, and other religious rites performed by clergy in residential ...

IT's a jubilee year, declared by the Catholic Church every quarter century with outpourings of divine mercy at pilgrimage ...

Beyond casual connections and associations, true friendships embody sacred qualities, transcending worldly connections. In essence, genuine friendships function as sacraments – visible manifestations ...

On Dec. 19, 1999, the Shrine of the Most Blessed Sacrament in Hanceville, Alabama, was officially opened and consecrated. The opening Mass was celebrated by the Diocese of Birmingham’s bishop at ...

The largest Christian sect in the country is Eastern Orthodox Christians under the authority of the ancient Greek Orthodox patriarch of Antioch. These Antiochian Orthodox Christians have a small ...

After the lecture, the senior editor of the National Catholic Register (NCR) interviewed Trueman and asked how he, a ...

I’m also thinking about what his legacy has meant to me. For the first eight years of my life, I grew up in the Greek Orthodox Church, and I can’t remember much music being part of my routine ...