It’s a hair-raising prayer, to modern minds. Just rude. Like telling someone that you love and respect him and then telling him he smells bad and he has a 3-year-old’s dress sense and his jokes aren’t ...

Marking the conclusion of the Week of Prayer for Christian Unity, Pope Francis hosted an ecumenical solemn vespers at Rome’s Basilica of St. Paul Outside the Walls on Thursday. In attendance at the ...

Divided Christians will draw closer to one another only by loving God and loving their neighbors, serving one another and not pointing fingers in blame for past faults, Pope Francis said. Closing the ...

The Holy Father closed the Week of Prayer for Christian Unity with Vespers at the Roman Basilica of St. Paul's Outside-the-walls on the Monday evening. In his homily he emphasized that everyone is ...

On behalf of the Lehigh Conference of Churches Interfaith Action Committee, we write to say, “We can do better.” We can focus our efforts on what unites us, rather than what divides us. We can move ...

The annual observance of this Week of Prayer for Christian Unity Jan 18-25, involves Christian communities worldwide coming ...

Just next to the Basilica of Sts. Celso and Giuliano — a popular spot for the traditional Latin Mass here in the Eternal City — is Ponte Sant'Angelo Methodist Church, an English language congregation ...

A wall fresco depicting the First Council of Nicaea in the Sistine hall of the Vatican Library. (CNS photo/Carol Glatz) The various liturgical calendars in use throughout most of Christianity feature ...

Saddleback Church founder and former Baptist pastor Rick Warren spoke at a Roman Catholic evangelism event in Rome last week and suggested in a related interview that God the Father has yet to answer ...

About 2,500 faithful filled the Roman basilica for the solemn vespers for the solemnity of the conversion of St. Paul. Pope Francis leads an ecumenical second vespers at the Basilica of St. Paul ...