It’s a special rite from the West, as we know, written and introduced into use by St. Gregory the Dialogist. “Do you know why he’s called the Dialogist?” the priest asked me sternly. “No, I forgot,” I ...

After the appearance of his book, Conversations or Dialogues on the Life and Miracles of the Italian Fathers, (otherwise known as The Dialogues) the hierarch began to be called the "Dialogist", that ...