As Pope Francis emphasizes liturgical formation in what may be his final message on the subject, the church faces a crisis in ...

Who is responsible for the birth of Christianity? As with any major phenomenon, the answer is complex. Christianity developed ...

The apostle Andrew went to the east in Constantinople; Mark to Alexandria (Egypt); Peter to Antioch (Rome); James to Jerusalem, and Barnabas to Cyprus. From these men, along with the itinerant ...

The early Church sought to evangelize in the major cultural centers of the first centuries A.D. These centers were Rome, Antioch (Syria), and Alexandria (Egypt). All the rites in use today evolved ...

She minted coins in Antioch and Alexandria. But her rule came to an end when Emperor Aurelian, having just quelled a parallel rebellion in Gaul and Britain, marched east to reassert Roman control.

He grew up in Antioch, received an excellent classical ... Eudoxia as well as Theophilus, bishop of Alexandria, who had him condemned on false charges in 403. He was exiled to Armenia where ...

Sin entered the world because Adam and Eve ate the fruit from the forbidden tree and broke the fast. And so began mankind’s ...