Leo XIII is known as the social justice pope because of encyclical, Rerum Novarum. This “Magna Carta of Social Justice” was ...

When someone accepts election as pontiff, there undergoes a change in that individual, not only in life purpose in leading ...

Nigeria and the US shared public holidays like New Year's Day, Good Friday, Easter Sunday, Christmas Day, and New Year's Eve, ...

For Britons the end of the tax year looms on April 5th. Why such a seemingly random date?

How Did the Egyptian Calendar Contribute to the Modern Calendar?   While some earlier civilizations had created calendars, the Egyptian calendar contributed heavily to the modern calendar. The ...

The Gregorian calendar, still in use today, was introduced by Pope Gregory XIII in 1582. Among papal names, John remains the most popular, having been used legitimately by 21 pontiffs. In terms of ...

There have been 266 papal leaders of the Catholic Church since Jesus Christ’s death in the AD 30s through Pope Francis – Jorge Mario Bergoglio – who died on Easter Monday at 88. The most ...

One of those visits featured the pope offering Mass to 80,000 people at Yankees Stadium in The Bronx, New York in 1979. Only a few popes – Leo I, Gregory I and Nicholas I – have been given the ...

But the two churches started using different calendars after Pope Gregory XIII’s adaptation in 1582, when the Western church adopted the Gregorian calendar while the Eastern Orthodox Church kept ...

But the two churches started using different calendars after Pope Gregory XIII’s adaptation in 1582, when the Western church adopted the Gregorian calendar while the Eastern Orthodox Church kept ...

But while most Western churches calculate the date using the Gregorian calendar introduced by Pope Gregory XIII in 1582, Eastern Orthodox churches use the older Julian calendar, established by ...

The Gregorian calendar, instituted by Pope Gregory XIII, went into effect in 1582. In the 1,417 years from 1583 through 3000, it’s most common for Easter to fall on April 16, with 61 instances.