The textbooks say the Byzantine Empire was a theocratic autocracy uniting church and state under an all-powerful emperor believed by the Byzantines to be God’s viceroy and vicar. Nonsense ...

Archaeologists believed they had unearthed the remains of a Byzantine monk buried beneath an ancient monastery in Jerusalem. But years later, new scientific evidence has turned that theory upside ...

Asceticism is the practice of denial of physical or psychological desires in order to attain a spiritual ideal or goal, often self-inflicted.

YOUNGSTOWN — Members of St. Mary Byzantine Catholic Church ... “I look forward to sharing the word of God with the people of the parish and spreading the gospel message.