For the past thousand years or so, a community of Eastern Orthodox monks has dwelled here, purposefully removed from everything except God. They live only to become one with Jesus Christ.

The proclamation of the common faith requires, first of all, that we love one another,” the Holy Father said in a Feb. 6 ...

The entire Church tradition of the Orthodox East was strongly championed in this region ... At the Roman Synod of 649, convoked against monothelitism by St. Martin, pope of Rome, Eastern monks played ...

Pope Francis offered that reminder on Thursday as he met with a delegation of Orthodox clergy taking part in a study visit to ...