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

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 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 ...

The archdiocese has 288 parishes, 30 missions and chapels, 16 Eastern Rite Catholic Churches, 214 Catholic elementary schools, and 51 Catholic high schools. The San Fernando Pastoral Region of the ...

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 ...

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 ...

The Vatican's top diplomat met with papal representatives to various Middle Eastern countries to discuss possible avenues toward peace in the region and the state of the Catholic Church there.

Thesis (J.C.L.)--Catholic University of America, 2014. Bibliography: leaves 64-70. Also available in microfilm. This item is being shared by an institution as a part ...

Vice President JD Vance fired back at the US Conference of Catholic Bishops over its denunciation of the Trump administration rule change allowing ICE raids in churches and schools. Last week ...

Koovakad is from India, and a member of the Eastern Catholic Syro-Malabar Church. Mar Raphael Thattil ... and most of them belong to the Eastern Rite. However, Hinduism – the dominant religion ...