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 decades-old row over Mass rubrics in Archdiocese of Ernakulam-Angamaly fueled street fights and multiple court cases ...

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 ...

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 Syro-Malabar Church established a special tribunal for “disciplinary” issues in the troubled Archeparchy of ...

Pope Francis has accepted the resignation of the apostolic administrator he appointed and the appointment of a new vicar, ...

A body of Catholic religious men and women has appealed to the Synod of Bishops of the India -based Eastern rite Syro-Malabar ...

A crucial meeting of the India -based Eastern rite Syro Malabar Church’s Synod of Bishops began amid a simmering decades-old ...