Preparation for the 50th New Orleans Greek Festival began in February, filling the Hellenic Cultural Center on Bayou St. John ...

A priest cannot violate his mission to reconcile sinners to God through the sacrament of confession without imperiling his own soul.

The holy icon of Panagia Soumela, located in the homonymous Holy Church in Vermio, northern Greece, is the symbol of Hellenism in Pontus.

Bob Ferguson, a Democrat, requires members of the clergy to report child abuse or neglect to authorities, even if that knowledge arises during the sacrament of confession. It has outraged many ...

sent a letter to the governor and called the mandate a “legislative attack on the Catholic Church and its sacrament of confession, a religious practice ordained by the Catholic Church dating ...

Throughout its centuries-long existence, the Hagia Sophia has been a place of worship for many different religions and ...

At the time, Archbishop José Gomez of Los Angeles termed the proposal “a threat to the sacrament of confession that would have denied the right to confidential confessions to priests and tens ...

The Mass for the inauguration of Pope Leo XIV’s pontificate will mark the official beginning of his ministry as successor of ...

It’s going to be a golden time at the Holy Trinity Greek Orthodox Cathedral this Memorial Day weekend, as Greek Fest celebrates its 50th anniversary. If you’re among the roughly 19,000 folks ...

For over three decades, in the weeks before the annual Greek Festival at Saint George Greek Orthodox Cathedral, Kay Leventis could be found in the downtown Greenville church’s kitchen baking and ...

absolves a properly disposed penitent within the sacramental forum [sacrament of Reconciliation; Confession] from a censure latæ sententiæ. It is enough that the confessor [when giving the ...

including converts from non-Orthodox nations. The monastery is one of 20 in the autonomous all-male monastic community of Mount Athos, known in Greek as Agion Oros, or Holy Mountain. The peninsula ...