Among the reasons cited is the fact that both Russia and Ukraine are predominantly Eastern Orthodox countries, while the ...

Pope Leo XIV is willing to host peace talks between Moscow and Kyiv, yet Russia's stance towards the Vatican is likely to ...

Russia’s foreign minister Sergei Lavrov said the idea of the Vatican was ‘a bit inelegant’ as Russia and Ukraine were Eastern ...

Pope Leo XIV offered to host or facilitate peace talks between warring parties in pursuit of global peace, but Moscow has ...

EASTERN ORTHODOX CHURCHES. There are many parallels between the beliefs ... In one case, that of St. Sava Serbian Orthodox Church, such a dispute found no resolution short of schism within the church ...

Ecumenical Patriarch Bartholomew met with Pope Leo XIV at the Vatican, one day after he attended the papal inauguration ...

Pope Leo I tangled with Attila the Hun and won. Pope Leo III crowned Charlemagne as the first Holy Roman Emperor. This is the history of a legendary papal namesake.

Pope Francis, the first pontiff from Latin America, offered Middle Eastern ... of the Great Schism, working toward a renewed koinonia — a true communion — with the Orthodox churches, in ...

It was a momentous event — the first time that the Catholic pope and the patriarch of the Russian Orthodox Church had met since 1054 when the schism between the two churches occurred.

As the parodies of peace negotiations between Russia, Ukraine and America continue—most recently marked by the failed attempt to bring Putin and Zelenskyy together in Istanbul—Pope Leo XIV ...

What does it mean that the newest pope has chosen the name Leo XIV? We look to the history of papal Leos to decode the choice.