After returning to Istanbul from his meeting with Pope Francis in Jerusalem, Patriarch Bartholomew made the surprise announcement that the two of them had “agreed to leave as a legacy to ourselves and ...

After all the speculation surrounding Pope Francis’s ability to engineer peace on his big Middle East trip, the biggest news from the visit came from his visit with Patriarch Bartholomew I, the ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Pope Leo XIV marked a high point of his first foreign trip to Turkey with a pilgrimage to the site where early Christian church ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Pope Leo XIV makes the first foreign trip of his papacy to Turkey and Lebanon, continuing a journey originally planned by Pope ...

The Da Vinci Code is a systematic attack on the divinity of Jesus Christ. The book’s author, Dan Brown, pursues his quarry with an obsessiveness that overrides good storytelling technique. And Brown’s ...

Speaking with a Swiss news agency, Cardinal Kurt Koch welcomed the proposal, saying the anniversary of the Council of Nicea was “a good opportunity” for this change. Cardinal Kurt Koch, president of ...

Pope Leo XIV makes the first foreign trip of his papacy to Turkey and Lebanon, continuing a journey originally planned by Pope Francis. On this day, he visits Iznik to mark the 1,700th anniversary of ...