VICTOR GAETAN is Senior International Correspondent for National Catholic Register and the author of God’s Diplomats: Pope Francis, Vatican Diplomacy, and America’s Armageddon. He contributes to ...

That simple but so important Sign of the Cross we see so often holds a hidden history that takes us back to the origins of ...

Have you ever noticed how Catholics and Orthodox Christians cross themselves differently? It's not random; it's a fascinating result of a thousand-year-old story. That simple but so important Sign of ...

In pairs, cardinals approached the casket, bowed and made a sign of the cross, followed by bishops ... there's no East or ...

In pairs, cardinals approached the casket, bowed and made a sign of the cross, followed by bishops ... there’s no East or ...

In pairs, cardinals in red cassocks approached the casket, bowed and made a sign of the cross, followed by small groups of ..

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 ...