Many Eastern Rite Catholic priests, those who head Orthodox-style churches under the authority of Rome, are married. And several dozen married Episcopal priests have switched to Roman Catholicism ...

Father Andrew Damick, an Eastern Orthodox priest, examines the case of a Greek Orthodox same-sex couple who married in a New York ceremony. The legally valid ceremony uniting Daniel Storrs and ...

ROME — Fr. Nikolas Kakavelakis, a Greek Orthodox priest who was seriously wounded in a shooting Saturday, has emerged from coma, according to French media. “He ...

I recently encountered an Orthodox priest who was taking a group of well ... The term uniate, while sometimes used by Eastern Catholics themselves, originally carried a disparaging connotation.

The rock band Luxury started out like many other punk and indie bands in the 1990s, as college kids just looking for other people to make music with. Less common was their cultural context: They ...

A group of gay Eastern European orthodox church members ... saying the models are merely "posing as Orthodox priests" and that the product is "indecent" and created with an "obvious intention ...

Liturgies continued to be performed in the languages of the first-generation immigrants, and priests were generally born and educated in the Old World. The tradition of autonomy was observed among ...

When a team of scientists asked over 30 leaders of the world's four major religions to take magic mushrooms, this is what ...

McPherson was raised in California before entering the Eastern Orthodox community in 2007 and starting at Holy Mother in 2020. The priest and other Orthodox leaders in Texas and throughout the U.S ...

(RNS) — On Thursday (May 2), the Orthodox Patriarchate of Alexandria and all of Africa ordained in Zimbabwe the first deaconess of any patriarchate in the global Eastern Orthodox Church ...

But for Eastern Orthodox Christians ... anointed with holy oil during what's called the Holy Unction service. The priest takes a cotton swab with holy oil on the tip and makes the sign of the ...