The Eastern-rite Catholic bishops of the United States, meeting recently at the Maronite Catholic Pastoral Center in St. Louis, expressed concern for the plight of Ukraine and Ukrainian refugees ...

The Eastern Churches’ plenary assembly marks the 25th anniversary of the Vatican’s publication of the ‘Instruction for Applying the Liturgical Prescriptions of the Code of Canons of the Eastern ...

In the 50 years since the promulgation of Orientalium Ecclesiarum, the Second Vatican Council’s decree on the Catholic Churches of the Eastern rite, this document has made noteworthy progress toward ...

Pope Leo XIV greets people at Jubilee of the Oriental Churches in the Vatican’s Audience Hall on May 14, 2025. (Credit: Vatican Media.) Listen Pope Leo XIV says the Church needs the Christian East and ...

Pope Francis speaks next to Archbishop Sviatoslav Shevchuk of Kiev-Halych, head of the Ukrainian Catholic Church, during a Jan. 28 meeting with the Ukrainian Catholic community at the Basilica of ...

On Monday Pope Francis introduced a limit of 80 years of age for retired bishops and patriarchs in the Eastern Catholic Churches to take part in decisional voting. In the motu proprio Iam Pridem, ...

Eastern Catholic leaders are remembering Pope Francis for bringing significant attention to their churches and traditions throughout his papacy, in a legacy marked by fraternity and many firsts, while ...

The promotion of Christian unity, especially between the Catholic and Orthodox churches, is the "pursuit of catholicity," that is, of a holistic vision of Christianity that values and safeguards its ...

ST. LOUIS — For the first time in nearly a century, a married priest has been ordained by the Maronite Catholic Church in the United States — and his wife and daughter were on hand to support him.

The Assisi Institute, a meditation and spirituality center in Rochester, New York, will host its inaugural Kriya Yoga Conference next month. About 150 to 200 people, the majority of them Catholic or ...

Pope Francis said on Friday that the Eastern Catholic Churches have witnessed to heroic faith amid the miseries of war. “We have witnessed the slaughter resulting from conflicts in the Middle East, in ...