It is important to have a clear understanding of the meaning of a word before we start to use it. The word ecumenical is a case in point. Throughout history, until very recently, its meaning was ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Ecumenical Patriarch Bartholomew I led a liturgy in Istanbul on Sunday, marking the 1,700th anniversary of Christianity's first ...

One significant decision at Nicaea was the date of the celebration of the Feast of the Resurrection, which at that time, and prior to the council was marked at different dates by different church ...

The history of the Catholic Church so far spans about 2,000 years. That’s a wide swath of history, a vast amount of time, and an organization that covers the entire world. The Church has been at the ...

The greatest gathering of Christians since the 16th century, when the Council of Trent worked for 18 years to counter the Protestant Reformation, ends this week in New Delhi. It is the third Assembly ...

With tomorrow set as the last day for voting at the Ecumenical Council in the Vatican, it appeared certain today that no vote will be taken by the Catholic Church prelates in the current Council ...

The full text of the declaration relating to Jews which was approved in the Ecumenical Council last Friday by an overwhelming majority of 1,763 to 250, and is now to be promulgated by Pope Paul VI as ...

Bishop Jesse Battle, vice president of the Ecumenical Leadership Council, is asking member churches to raise a special donation for victims of the earthquake in Haiti during their Sunday morning ...

Pope John XXIII stepped into his black Cadillac one day last week and rode to the church of St. Paul Outside the Walls. (Along his route, the night before, policemen had painted out life-size posters ...