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 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 ...

Another major point of theological contention was that Eastern Orthodox Churches (not to be confused with Eastern Rite Catholics) strongly disagreed with the Nicene Creed practiced in Catholic ...

The Syro-Malabar Church established a special tribunal for “disciplinary” issues in the troubled Archeparchy of Ernakulam-Angamaly, the largest diocese of the Eastern-rite Catholic Church ...

He began to memorize the Church rituals and psalms. Within him grew the desire to suffer poverty ... This took place on 25 November, 1963. He was the first Eastern-rite Catholic to be formally ...

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 ...