The Eastern rite Syro-Malabar Church Public Affairs Commission, in a March 12 statement, demanded a “high-level investigation ...

A Church sui iuiris is a distinct community of faithful within a rite of the Church. For example, there are 22 eastern Churches sui iuris, made up of two Alexandrian, three Antiochene, one ...

The eastern rites which have a separate code of canon ... All the rites of the Catholic Church are of equal dignity and equally valid. Attendance at a different rite fulfills the Sunday obligation.

The season of Lent for Western Catholics began on Ash Wednesday, March 5; for Eastern Rite Catholics, Lent began on Clean ...

One morning in October of 2023, Miami police were called to remove a “squatter” who had, or so the ecclesiastical ...

A Catholic bishop in southern Indian Kerala state has accused its communists-led government of inaction after 12 people, ...

Christians will get one last nibble on their paczkis and king cakes as Mardi Gras and the Carnival Season give way to Ash ...

The pope’s words emphasized his humility and belief that simple acts of devotion could unite the church. His illness has made ...

Archbishop William E. Lori of Baltimore has decided to lower the age of confirmation to 9 in a move designed to increase family involvement in the formation of youth. For Archbishop Lori, who has ...

It’s an intriguing title. The Book of Before & After sounds like a novel by Philip Pullman. In fact it is a translation of ...

By Mary Jo McConahay Mary Jo McConahay is the author of “Playing God: American Catholic Bishops and the ... the jeweled crowns of Eastern Rite patriarchs. My school headmaster in Rome managed ...

Meeting leaders of the Eastern Catholic churches -- many from countries at ... of state has called the head of the Ukraine's Eastern-rite Catholics to express the closeness of the Holy See at ...