COMMENTARY: The ancient witness of the Eastern Catholic Churches may hold the key to healing divisions and reviving true ...

Pope vows every effort to work for peace in regions where Christians persecuted, forced to flee Leo told a Holy Year audience of eastern rite pilgrims that the Catholic Church needs them. Eastern ...

Eastern-rite Catholics accept the authority of the pope but have many of their own rituals and liturgy. They include the Coptic, Chaldean, Maronite and Eritrean Catholic churches, as well as the ...

The specter of schism has hovered in recent years over the Metropolitan Archeparchy of Ernakulam-Angamaly of the Syro-Malabar ...

He went so far as to decree that ‘any Latin-Rite missionary, whether a member of the secular or regular clergy, who by advice or support draws any Eastern-Rite Catholic to the Latin Rite ...

Pope Leo XIV is vowing to actively promote and protect the spirituality and traditions of the eastern rite churches, those Catholic communities with origins in the Middle East and North Africa ...

VATICAN CITY (AP) — Eastern-rite Catholics accept the authority of the pope but have many of their own rituals and liturgy.

Pope Leo XIV is vowing to actively promote and protect the spirituality and traditions of the eastern rite churches, those Catholic communities with origins in the Middle East and North ...

That Leo went so far as to threaten any Latin rite priest in the west with dismissal if he tried to bring an eastern rite Catholic over to the western traditions of the Latin rite.

Eastern-rite Catholics accept the authority of the pope but have many of their own rituals and liturgy. They include the Coptic, Chaldean, Maronite and Eritrean Catholic churches, as well as the ...