As those in power who seek only their own interest and gain continue seeking to instill panoptical fear so that the fearful ...

Major Archbishop Sviatoslav Shevchuk, head of the Ukrainian Greek Catholic Church, talks with OSV News during his 2025 visit to the U.S. from Ukraine.

The myth of Phlegethon inspired both Dante in his “Inferno” and Edgar Allan Poe in his Descent into the Maelstrom. The River Lethe takes its name from the ancient Greek word for oblivion and ...

The beauty and solemnity of religious services are often enhanced by the attire of the clergy. These garments, known as liturgical vestments, are not simply decorative clothing. They are imbued with ...

As the liturgy has it ... In the original Greek, the news of Easter morning could be put in a single word: ēgerthē (ἠγέρθη)—“He has risen” (Matt. 28:6). Yet this one word ...

The Greek word 'ekklesia' was not invented by Christians ... People talk of "High Church" to mean churches with an emphasis on ceremony, liturgy and tradition, sometimes in the Anglican context also ...

Greek culture excelled, preserved, and spread as a culture of the written word and as a culture of extremely important written texts. For this very reason, we must respect this language, recognize its ...

The territory of the Gerasenes was part of a Greek colony called the Decapolis. In the mind of many Jewish people, such areas were by definition under the control of evil spirits, embodied in the ...

Penelope, a Greek woman, married an Indian man ... Penelope described her experience as “magical beyond words” and said she was excited on embracing a new culture. “I have never attended ...

Pope Francis marked the Sunday of the Word of God by installing 40 Catholics from multiple continents as lectors during a special Mass at St. Peter’s Basilica, including faithful from Iceland to ...

This concept of being God’s workmanship is nothing short of awe-inspiring. The Greek word for “workmanship,” poiema, translates to art or creation, much like a beautiful poem. Each of us is ...

The first is called the liturgy of the Word and the second the Eucharistic liturgy ... The books of the Old Testament are written mostly in Hebrew, several in Greek and a few in Aramaic. The books of ...