COMMENTARY: Despite what desires remain in Rome for full communion, it is a complete impossibility when the two most ...

Pope Francis on Sunday sharply denounced the Ukrainian government’s recently enacted ban on Russian Orthodox Church worship, arguing that the faithful should not be barred from worshipping as ...

How are things going?” The almost blunt question addressed to the President of Ukraine helped get straight to the point, as ...

Pope Leo XIV welcomed Ukrainian Greek Catholic pilgrims to the Vatican on June 28, saying their country has been "martyred" ...

Pope Francis on August 25 condemned the latest action by Kyiv to ban religious organizations with ties to the Russian Orthodox Church from operating in Ukraine.

Ukraine’s security service accused the head of the Ukrainian Orthodox Church of supporting ‘the policy of the Russian ...

It was a momentous event — the first time that the Catholic pope and the patriarch of the Russian Orthodox Church had met since 1054 when the schism between the two churches occurred.

Patriarch Kirill of Moscow, head of the Russian Orthodox Church (ROC), did not attend the funeral of Pope Francis, though the two held a meeting in 2016 in Cuba, after almost 10 centuries of schism.

Patriarch Kirill, the head of the Russian Orthodox Church, sent a message of congratulations on Friday to Pope Leo, whose predecessor Pope Francis had criticised Kirill's backing for Russia's war ...

VATICAN CITY (RNS) — Following the Angelus, his weekly prayer service at the Vatican, on Sunday (Aug. 25), Pope Francis criticized Ukraine’s decision to ban the Ukrainian Orthodox Church ...