Category: Religion

St. Edward was born in 1003, the son of the Duke of Normandy and the nephew of King Edmund Ironside of England. From the age… Read More

The Latin Catholic patriarch of Jerusalem has called for a day of prayer and fasting on Tuesday, Oct. 17, for peace and reconciliation in the… Read More

Catholics should approach the issue of artificial wombs with both courage and caution, an ethicist stressed after U.S. Food and Drug Administration advisers met about… Read More

About 20 people are physically abused by an intimate partner every minute in the United States. This comes out to more than 10 million women… Read More

Post-mortem portrait of Eudoxia Lukianovna Streshneva from the Petrine era. Illustration: ru.wikipedia.org The old merchant town of Meshchovsk, Kaluga Province, gave Russia two tsarinas, Eudoxia… Read More

I am not a “travel” writer, but I am a writer who travels. Travel is good for the soul.  I was struck with wanderlust the… Read More

This account was written at the time of the uncovering by a spiritual son of St. John.      In the name of the Father and… Read More

Poland is practically on the other side of the world from California. But for a few moments, lying face-down on the floor during his episcopal… Read More

Hieromonk Silouan (Brown) is a typical American who attended a Protestant church from childhood, but then discovered Orthodoxy. He served in Iraq, which was a… Read More

On October 12, the Church celebrates the feast of Nuestra Señora del Pilar, or Our Lady of the Pillar.  The first Marian apparition in history… Read More