Pope Francis indicated that the Catholic Church was willing to accept a common date for celebrating Easter in the West and ...

In 1582, Pope Gregory XIII reformed the calendar, dropping 10 days and making the equinox fall on March 21 again. Most ...

Pope Francis said that the Catholic Church is ready to accept a single date for all Christians to celebrate Easter.

The original Roman calendar divided the year from March to December into 10 months of either 29 or 31 days, based on lunar ...

Pope Francis has renewed his proposal for the Catholic Church and the Orthodox Church to have a common date to celebrate Holy ...

During an ecumenical prayer service at St. Paul Outside the Walls to mark the end of the Week of Prayer for Christian Unity, ...

There is a country that follows a different calendar than the rest of the world and does not live in 2025, but in 2017. Its ...

Finally, the calendar we all know was adopted by Pope Gregory XIII in 1582. After skipping 10 days in October 1582 to "catch up," it has changed little since then. What to know about February and ...

Pope Francis on Sunday called for a unified Easter date among Christian churches in the spirit of promoting unity. "It is a ...

A remote Shetland island is celebrating its traditional New Year's Day - two weeks after other parts of the world. Foula - which is home to fewer than 40 people - never fully adopted the modern ...

Eventually, the calendar we all know was adopted by Pope Gregory XIII in 1582, and it's changed little since then — not that the system is flawless. February gets a leap year once every four ...