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Easter Sundays date remains divisive after four centuries
2025-04-24 18:45:03| Spiritual Career Counseling
Pope Francis and Ecumenical Patriarch Bartholomew attend an ecumenical meeting and prayer for peace in Our Lady of Arabia Cathedral, Sakhir, Bahrain, Friday, Nov. 4, 2022. | AP File photoATHENS, Greece For more than 400 years, Catholic and Orthodox churches have used different ways to determine the date ofEaster Sunday.But this Sunday will mark a special moment for Christians, as the churches celebrate of Jesus resurrection on the same day.Whats more, top religious leaders including Pope Francis are expressing a desire to keep it that way. But the unusual alignment has stirred underlying mistrust between the two major Christian communions.Calendars and calculations differThe movable date for Easter follows a seemingly straightforward rule: the Sunday following the first full moon on or after the spring equinox.But the two churches started using different calendars after Pope Gregory XIIIs adaptation in 1582, when the Western church adopted the Gregorian calendar while the East...
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