The church universal this year celebrates the 1,700th anniversary of the Council of Nicaea, the first ecumenical council intended to address all the churches of Christianity. Though his ongoing ...

Pope John XXIII surprised the whole world when on January 25, 1959, he announced the first Ecumenical Council to be called since 1870. After three years of intense preparation, the Second Vatican ...

some verses from the Holy Bible that are appropriate as we are all keen to re-implement one of the important and logic decrees of the First Ecumenical Council of Nicaea (325), begin with a verse from ...

Icon depicting the Emperor Constantine and ... Council of Nicaea as a “breath of hope” for the Church. The first Ecumenical Council took place in 325, and went against the Arian heresy ...

During his 12-year pontificate, Francis took important, even historical, ecumenical initiatives. In 2016, he became the first ...