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 ...

Leo told a Holy Year audience of eastern rite pilgrims that the Catholic Church needs them. Eastern-rite Catholics accept the authority of the pope but have many of their own rituals and liturgy.

The eastern rites which have a separate code of canon law, are completely equal in dignity with the rites of the West. All of these eastern ritual churches come under the jurisdiction of the Pope ...

The Pope mourned the deaths and suffering caused by war and terrorism, and mentioned the recent suicide bombing on the Mar ...

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 ...

His Church, the Syriac Catholic Church, is one of 23 Eastern Catholic Churches that, together with the Latin, or Roman, Catholic Church, make up the universal Catholic Church. Many of the Eastern ...

The Syro-Malabar Church announced a resolution to a decades-long liturgy dispute in the Archeparchy of Ernakulam-Angamaly.

Pope Leo XIV vowed to take "every effort" Wednesday to work for peace in the Middle East and Ukraine and to actively promote the spirituality and traditions of the eastern rite churches, those ...

That Leo, who was pope from 1878 to 1903, penned the first specific document about the dignity of eastern rite churches and the need to preserve and celebrate their traditions in the west.

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 ...

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 ...