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.

AUSTRALIAN Catholic University experts in theology, liturgy, and ecology are supporting a global proposal to institute a new ...

A Catholic bishop has accused the state government in southern India 's Kerala state of discriminating against Christians and ...

Mor Ignatius Aphrem II, the Patriarch of Syriac Orthodox Church, led the special ceremony in St Mary’s Syrian Orthodox ...

While anchored in the hope that comes from Jesus' resurrection, Catholics should not forget the "tears, despair and ...

From battlefield funerals to front-line faith, Father Taras Mykhalchuk ministers where few dare to go — and says war has only ...

Patriarch of Babylon, Shepherd of Eastern Roman Catholics who worship ... Rite church in the U.S. Although the Latin Rite of the Roman Catholic Church is by far the largest, there are 18 others ...

President Donald Trump on Monday named his one-time defense attorney and current White House counselor Alina Habba to be the ...

Habba has Iraqi ancestry and is Chaldean, which is Iraq’s largest Christian denomination and one of the Catholic Church’s Eastern rites. “If you look at what happened in crime, what’s ...