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 ...

COMMENTARY: Approved on the same day as ‘Lumen Gentium’ and ‘Unitatis Redintegratio,’ ‘Orientalium Ecclesiarum’ manifests the ...

The head of the India-based Eastern-rite Syro Malabar Church has lauded the Vatican for appointing Cardinal George J.

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 Eastern-rite Catholic bishops of the U.S., meeting recently at the Maronite Catholic Pastoral Center in St. Louis, expressed concern for the plight of Ukraine and Ukrainian refugees fleeing ...

Cardinal Koovakad, who was in the diplomatic service of the Holy See for 14 years, is part of the Syro-Malabar Church, one of the Catholic faith’s Eastern-rite Churches. Indian Cardinal George ...

At the end of a session of the Synod of Bishops of this ancient Eastern-rite Catholic Church deeply rooted in the State of Kerala, the Major Archbishop Raphael Thattil - who as such is the ...