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.

Kerala State Forest Department filed charges against retired Bishop George Punnakottil of Kothamangalam and others, including ...

Catholic bishops in India’s southern Kerala state have ... George, a leader of the pro-Hindu Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP). George is a member of the Eastern rite Church and had been a legislator for ...