COMMENTARY: A century after the modern ecumenical movement began, recent events within the Anglican Communion in the Orthodox ...

The Week of Prayer for Christian Unity will be celebrated by Catholics and other Christians worldwide from Jan. 18–25. The theme for 2024, “You shall love the Lord your God ... and your neighbor as ...

There’s been encouraging — sometimes tantalizing — news in recent years about the growing potential for Catholic-Orthodox unification. Pope Benedict XVI is said to be viewed more favorably by the ...

Pundits, academics, and church leaders alike decry our current age as a time of partisan rancor and disunity. People, we are told, are locked in “echo chambers,” and they refuse to listen to those ...

Christians in Bangladesh have been organizing special prayers and gatherings to observe the Week of Prayer for Christian Unity Jan. 18-25, to prioritize and promote unity among Christian denominations ...

Pope Francis said on Friday that the “barbarity of war” should inspire a new push for Christian unity. The pope made the comment in an address to members of the Pontifical Council for Promoting ...

What will tomorrow’s church be like? Will it be a truly catholic (small “c”) church, a communion of local churches living in visible unity? Or will it be a multiplicity of churches and communities, ...

"Blessed be the God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ, who has blessed us in Christ with every spiritual blessing in the heavens" (Ephesians 1:3). This passage comes from St. Paul's letter to the ...

James Loughran, S.A., in front of the altar where Paul Wattson, S.A., the co-founder of the Society of the Atonement, celebrated his first Mass as a Catholic priest. (Doug Girardot for America) It is ...

NOTHING is more uncertain than prophecy about the profound changes of direction which, from time to time, overtake the human spirit. Who would have guessed, as the seventeenth century drew to an end, ...