For more than 400 years, Catholic and Orthodox churches have used different ways to determine the date of Easter. But this ...

The idea of a common Easter has been discussed since the 1960s, with interest peaking when celebrations coincide, as they ...

It is Lent in the Christian world, but in reality, it only alters the lives of monks and Moscow restaurateurs, who rush to invent Lenten menus to profit from the public's fear of living in sin.

To the north of St. Peter’s Square in the Vatican stands a tall structure called the Tower of the Winds, also referred to as ...

I've been doing everything I can to get in touch with Pope Gregory XIII about fixing the Gregorian calendar, but I haven't had much luck yet. I'll keep trying his cell, but in the meantime ...

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 ...