During his 12-year pontificate, Francis took important, even historical, ecumenical initiatives. In 2016, he became the first pope ever to meet the head of the Russian Orthodox Church. Pope Francis ...

Participants in the Synod of Bishops hold candles as they pray at an ecumenical vigil with Pope Francis Oct. 11, 2024, in the Square of the Roman Protomartyrs at the Vatican. (CNS photo/Lola Gomez) On ...

COMMENTARY: Three points are worthy of note as the heads of the Catholic Church, Orthodox Church and Anglican Communion come together to pray ahead of the Synod on Synodality. From left, Pope Francis, ...

Growing up as a cradle Presbyterian and a preacher’s kid, Presbyterianism was my sociocultural world. When my father got angry with me or my sister, he would often preface his remarks with the ...

A hundred years ago, Catholics were not interested in celebrating the 400th anniversary of the Protestant Reformation, except to remember how a bunch of reformers led people astray. How times have ...

Ecumenical Patriarch Bartholomew I has strongly condemned Russia’s missile strike on the historic Kyiv Pechersk Lavra, ...

For years, advocates for greater unity among Christian churches have wrung their hands and talked of an "ecumenical winter." But now, ten years after leaders took the first steps toward forming the ...

What can the bishops of the United States do to serve the ecumenical journey? The question is a deceptively simple one. Finding an answer requires looking at the goal of ecumenism, as understood by ...

The divisions between these “parties” are important. So are the divisions within them. There was rising interest in evangelicalism in the 1980s and 1990s, amid the heyday of the Moral Majority and the ...

Only a few years ago the words ecumenical and ecumenism meant nothing to the average laymen. They were just so much Greek, in the real sense of the word. But now we are confronted with these words in ...