White is the traditional festal color in the Western church.

The widespread use of a pectoral cross, however, did not begin in the Western church until around the 14th century.

The Western church, on the other hand, saw images as useful especially for reaching the illiterate.

Little needs to be said about monumental architecture save that most of the greater western churches had been built by the early 13005.

Today, many Western churches which are non-naturist do not require women to cover their heads in church.

There is about the place an air of casual disarray, which would definitely be unusual in a Western church.

The two rites were separated in the Western church.

A report by the assembly's finance committee showed the council relied on western European churches for 82 percent of its budget.

Affusion became the standard practice in the western church around the 10th century, but was in use much earlier.

This temporary eastern deferral to the western church did not endure.