A blessing (from to bless, Old English bleodsian or bletsian) originally meant "sprinkling with blood" during the pagan sacrifices ... formal blessings of the church are performed by bishops ...

Pope Francis, 88, died Monday morning at the Vatican. Cardinal Camerlengo Kevin Joseph Farrell was seen sealing the door to ...

The Apostle Paul makes a troubling claim about Jesus’s resurrection in 1 Corinthians 15:19-22: ...

The pagan priests there ascribed the silence of their oracles to his frequent passings. One day they seized him, and when he refused to sacrifice ... honorable burial. A church was erected where ...

Though he distained Christianity for speaking in favor of the innocence of the victim, he saw clearly that societies create scapegoats and need sacrifice ... and the pagan. Until the resurrection ...

St George's Day is celebrated annually on April 23. This year, in 2025, it falls on a Wednesday. While the day is not a public holiday in England, it is recognized by various Christian churches and ...

If April 23 falls on or before Great and Holy Pascha, the Feast of Agios Georgios is commemorated on Easter Monday.

[or] to bribe the officials at the pagan temples to give them a certificate saying they had offered the sacrifice when in fact they had not. All this made a grave problem for the church when the ...