The Diocese of Shreveport will hold an ecumenical prayer service and Mass on April 30, 2026 to honor the memory of the eight ...

During his 12-year pontificate, Francis took important, even historical, ecumenical initiatives. In 2016, he became the first pope ever to meet the head of the Russian Orthodox Church. Pope Francis ...

Participants in the Synod of Bishops hold candles as they pray at an ecumenical vigil with Pope Francis Oct. 11, 2024, in the Square of the Roman Protomartyrs at the Vatican. (CNS photo/Lola Gomez) On ...

Growing up as a cradle Presbyterian and a preacher’s kid, Presbyterianism was my sociocultural world. When my father got angry with me or my sister, he would often preface his remarks with the ...

COMMENTARY: Three points are worthy of note as the heads of the Catholic Church, Orthodox Church and Anglican Communion come together to pray ahead of the Synod on Synodality. From left, Pope Francis, ...

Stop me if you’ve heard this one: three evangelicals, an atheist, an ex-nun, and a rootworker walk into an exorcism. Fifty years after William Friedkin’s The Exorcist shocked America, director David ...

The ecumenical jury at Cannes was inaugurated in 1974, following the efforts of the organization Interfilm. Delegates from various European Protestant film associations founded Interfilm in 1955.

What can the bishops of the United States do to serve the ecumenical journey? The question is a deceptively simple one. Finding an answer requires looking at the goal of ecumenism, as understood by ...

YOUNGSTOWN — Bishop David Bonnar has appointed the Rev. Shawn Conoboy as director of ecumenical and interreligious affairs for the Diocese of Youngstown, effective immediately. Conoboy will remain ...

“The primary criteria for judging the films is first the quality of the movie, its overall storytelling and technical excellence,” says Douglas Fahleson, president of Cannes’ Ecumenical Jury in 2021. ...

Ecumenical Patriarch Bartholomew greets parishioners upon arrival for a service at St. Andrew Greek Orthodox Church on Oct. 28, 2021, in South Bend, Ind. The spiritual leader of Eastern Orthodox ...