As clergy and faithful present proclaimed “Axios! Axios! Axios!” (Greek for “He is worthy”), Fr. Artur Bubnevych was ...

The head of the India-based Eastern-rite Syro Malabar Church has lauded the Vatican for appointing Cardinal George J. Koovakad as the new prefect of the Dicastery for Interreligious Dialogue. The Jan.

An 82-year-old priest was pushed off the altar amid a clash during Sunday Mass inside a church in southern Kerala ...

As the Bishop of Rome he is the head of the Latin ... 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 ...

Several Council Fathers, particularly of the Melkite rite, used the Council ... were “absent,” referring to the Eastern Orthodox. Still another Melkite bishop, Archbishop Joseph Tawil of ...