On Mount Nightingale, near the ruins of Ephesus, is an old stone house. This single-story house is a shrine, called Meryemana Evi, translated as “the House of Mother Mary” in Turkish. It’s widely ...

For a number of years, when I was teaching high school full-time, I was invited to come to the college-level seminary in my diocese and teach a class in Christology to the seminarians who were in ...

On our visit, a knowledgeable tour guide led us through the well-preserved ruins, including the impressive Grand Theatre and the Church of the Virgin Mary. The vibrant history of Ephesus truly came to ...

Over the centuries, a succession of empires—Greek, Persian, Roman, Byzantine and, finally, Ottoman—ruled over the city of Ephesus. Yet no matter how many times it changed hands, the city remained one ...