Category: Religion

Kozelsk, Kaluga Province, Russia, March 19, 2025 Photo: optina.ru      The farewell to the deeply beloved and revered elder Schema-Archimandrite Iliy (Nozdrin) took place at… Read More

Minneapolis, Minnesota, March 19, 2025 Photo: Orthodox Journeys      A new curriculum for students in grades K-12 explores the life of St. Tikhon, Apostle to… Read More

I regret the day I decided to buy a smartphone.  It was 2010, and I was at the Philadelphia International Airport heading to visit my… Read More

With the blessing of Bishop Mitrophan of Gatchina and Luga, the wonderworking Icon of the Mother of God, “The Seeker of the Lost”, which first… Read More

Following a setback, the U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops is continuing its legal fight against the Trump administration’s halt in federal funding for refugee resettlement… Read More

Pope Francis spent the night without a breathing mask, the Vatican press office said March 18, indicating that his need for supplemental oxygen continues to… Read More

People in the world of news and communications need to understand the full importance of words, Pope Francis wrote. While war offers no solutions to… Read More

A painting of Christ being laid in the tomb, long hidden under layers of overpainting and forgotten by history, will once again be visible to… Read More

Bishop Joseph (Korolev) of Mozhaisk, Abbot of Optina Monastery, was recently a speaker of the “We Talk” project of the Moscow Sretensky Monastery’s Spiritual and… Read More

The feast of the Annunciation, March 25, is upon us — and it is a day we should celebrate. We can even suspend our Lenten… Read More