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 ...

It may surprise most people to know that there are many different rites within the Catholic ... universal Church, the Pope is shepherd of the rites of the West and the East. The eastern rites ...

In a 2024 meeting with Syro-Malabar Major Archbishop Raphael Thattil of Ernakulam-Angamaly, Pope Francis summed up his view ...

A delegation from the Eastern Rites of the Catholic Church lead a prayer in Greek during the funeral of Pope Francis. NBC Sports Anchor Mike Tirico Departs From Kentucky Derby Coverage Following ...

Pope Francis' funeral at St. Peter’s Square drew hundreds of thousands of mourners and a roster of global leaders. After the ...

one of the 23 Eastern rite Catholic Churches and has about 450 thousand faithful between India and the diaspora communities. Baselios Cleemis was born on June 15, 1959 in Mukkoor, in the district ...

Caccia described Francis as a “person of trust, a person close to all of us” as he addressed mourners inside the neo-Gothic ...

It was followed by a blessing from Eastern rite Catholic churches chanted in Greek by patriarchs and priests. The pages of the New Testament placed atop the coffin fluttered in the wind as ...

When we recite the Nicene Creed every Sunday, we Catholics state that we believe in the "one, holy, catholic ... rites, such as the Ambrosian liturgy in Milan, and the various Eastern-rite ...