Thanks to a decision made more than 400 years ago, not all Christians observe the holiday on December 25.
There are married Catholic priests. Some have come from the Anglican Church to Catholicism. Other married priests are found in some Eastern Rite Catholic churches. These rites were part of the Orthodox split in the 11th century, but returned to the Catholic fold later and were allowed to mainta...
What the Holy Ghost is, whether it emanates from the Father alone or from the Son also (filioque), became the matter, at least formally, on which the Latin (Western, Catholic) and Greek (Eastern, Orthodox) Churches split in 1054 AD. In the West, the Catholic Church ended up with ...
Coming from the headquarters of orthodox medicine this is very welcome to anti -vivisectionists. The Obserzter November 2nd, 1924, relates that the Arbeiter-Zeitung states that ” an experiment with a new kind of serum was attempted on 36 children at a babies’ home near Vienna, with this...
s not to say all religious fundamentalists are a problem. I don’t see the Quakers as a problem, for example. And it’s not to say the non-fundamentalists are a problem. I’m referring to Christian nationalists in the West and eastern Europe, Hindu nationalists in India, orthodox ...
The Church plays an important role in the Christian movement by conducting dialogues aiming at resolving the theological differences with the Catholic, Eastern Orthodox, Presbyterian, and Evangelical Churches. Perhaps the greatest glory of the Coptic Church is its Cross. Copts take pride in the ...
How did Old Church Slavonic originate? Tabyldy Kadyrbekov/Sputnik Church Slavonic has had approximately the same meaning for Orthodox Slavs as Latin has for Catholics for a thousand years. It is essentially the successor of Old Church Slavonic, the first written Slavonic language created in the ...
“religion” was merely a sense of wonder about the world that gives us curiosity to move forward. Einstein was pretty much an atheist–or rather a pantheist who saw the cosmos as a god, but not a personal God. And even if Albertwerean an orthodox Jew, just because he was a good ...
Popes, with support sometimes from the Eastern Orthodox Patriarchs, called for the Crusades which killed Muslims and eventually others:Urban’s main achievement was convoking the Council of Clermont, November 1095, which called the First Crusade. The Byzantine Emperor, Alexius Commenus, had sent a...
The civil war now raging against the eastern provinces was launched by Kiev, at Jewmerica’s instigation.As for Kiev’s current shelling of East Ukraine, this is none other than Jewmerica’s attempt to destroy Russia’s efforts to implement the Minsk Protocol, of which, Putin renewed the ...