The coming papal conclave is just days away and, within days or weeks of the doors to the Sistine Chapel closing, the ...

Peter was the first pontiff of the Catholic church, and several popes have been considered "great" in the interim.

For more than 400 years, Catholic and Orthodox churches have used different ways to determine the date of Easter. But this Easter marked a special moment for Christians, as the churches celebrate of ...

That initial conclave elected an archdeacon who was not an ordained priest, who became Pope Gregory X. The new pope ordered that future Church transitions would begin with a conclave, to avoid ...

It was a meeting of East and West on Sunday as people around the world celebrated Easter on the same day, an overlap that happens every three to four years. Easter’s moveable date should be simple ...

Here are the answers to some of the questions you might have about Easter: ...

In 1582, Pope Gregory XIII introduced the Gregorian calendar to correct inaccuracies in the Julian calendar. While many Christian denominations adopted this new calendar, the Orthodox Church has ...

But the two churches started using different calendars after Pope Gregory XIII’s adaptation in 1582, when the Western church adopted the Gregorian calendar while the Eastern Orthodox Church kept ...

Though convention has it the churches split during the Great Schism of 1054, they largely maintained the same calendars until 1582, when Pope Gregory XIII adopted the Gregorian calendar for the ...

But the two churches started using different calendars after Pope Gregory XIII’s adaptation in 1582, when the Western church adopted the Gregorian calendar while the Eastern Orthodox Church kept the ...

The alignment of Easter in Western and Eastern branches of Christianity, along with a 1,700-year anniversary, have renewed ...

But the two churches started using different calendars after Pope Gregory XIII’s adaptation in 1582, when the Western church adopted the Gregorian calendar while the Eastern Orthodox Church kept ...