WASHINGTON — With every Lent, Catholic parishes enter into the final stretch of preparing people for full initiation into the Catholic Church at the Easter vigil. But parishes that have Orthodox ...

Before Pope Francis announced last year’s Extraordinary Synod of Bishops on Marriage and Family, and this year’s ordinary synod on the same topic, the Eastern Orthodox practice of oikonomia was little ...

Efforts to slow the spread of coronavirus have rekindled a millennium-old debate within Christianity. Should Eastern Orthodox priests use a shared spoon to distribute sacramental bread and wine to ...

Ponderous and stiff with the incrustation of centuries of bickering and privilege is the Eastern Orthodox Communion—an assortment of 15 national churches headed by patriarchs and loosely bound by a ...