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 Catholic Encyclopedia describes the situation ... the Pope is shepherd of the rites of the West and the East. The eastern rites which have a separate code of canon law, are completely equal ...

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

Peter & Paul in 1954, they took a name to appeal to different strands of the faith, including Greek, Russian and Eastern Rite Catholic, reflecting the diversity of immigrants arriving after World ...

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

Appointed three years ago as archbishop of the only Latin-rite Catholic diocese in Iran ... the challenges of the church in post-communist Eastern Europe. It was in Colombia that he faced his ...

More than 450 catechumens took their next step into entering the Catholic Church at the Rite of Election, presided over by Vicar General Bishop Mark O'Connell at the Cathedral of the Hol ...

RCIA, or the Rite of Christian Initiation of Adults, is now officially called OCIA, or the Order of Christian Initiation for ...

St. Joseph's Chapel, the oldest continuously operating Catholic Church in Idaho, has been designated a sacred site for ...

From the gastronomic specialties of Sifnos to the enigmatic ruins of the Dodecanese, each Greek island has its own distinct ...