In Chicago last week Father Thomay was laying plans to build the first Chaldean Rite church in the U.S. Although the Latin Rite of the Roman Catholic Church is by far the largest, there are 18 ...

Chaldean Catholic Archbishop Bashar Warda of Erbil, Iraq, is seen during his visit to the U.S. offices of Aid to the Church in Need in Brooklyn, N.Y., July 18, 2022. (CNS/Gregory A. Shemitz) The ...