COMMENTARY: The 16th-century ecumenical council shows us how the Church can come together and bring about authentic reform.

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 ...

First of all, the Eastern Orthodox Church does not give all church councils equal status. The church does, however, give special prominence to the seven Ecumenical Councils that took place between 325 ...

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 ...

Pope John XXIII prays in the Basilica of St. Paul Outside the Walls on Jan. 25, 1959, just before announcing his plans to convoke the Second Vatican Council. The pope cited a need to update the church ...

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 ...

Concrete steps are already being made under the Canadian Conference of Catholic Bishops' new National Ecumenical Strategy (NES), publicly unveiled mere weeks ago on Nov. 24, said Regina Archbishop Don ...

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 ...