The Catholic Church is an institution of remarkable longevity. The year marks the 1,700th anniversary of the Council of ...

For example, there are 22 eastern Churches sui iuris, made up of two Alexandrian, three Antiochene, one Armenian, two Chaldean and 14 Byzantine. Information on each of these sui iuris Churches as ...

BYZANTINE. The largest of these eastern rites ... All the rites of the Catholic Church are of equal dignity and equally valid. Attendance at a different rite fulfills the Sunday obligation.

POPE Leo XIV is leading his first holy mass in the Sistine Chapel less than 24 hours after being elected. Robert Prevost, 69, ...

cultural and economic affairs would preclude an American head of the Catholic Church. He had been called to the Vatican from the regions of Peru (he has dual US/Peru citizenship), and excelled in ...

The new Pope is an American. Do not for a minute think he wants to Make America Great Again. Cardinal Robert Francis Prevost on Thursday became leader to the world’s 1.4 billion Catholics and took the ...

In a seemingly analogous (but not strictly corresponding) fashion, the Hasidic tzaddik distributes the leftovers of his third ...

In a matter of days, 135 eligible cardinals from around the world will gather in Rome for a papal conclave in order to choose the next pope for the Roman Catholic Church. Meeting beneath ... to thrive ...

When still a cardinal, the new pope led discussions on key issues facing the church during which “every voice had equal value ...

The new pope said he would be guided by a key document that his predecessor wrote listing the church’s priorities, including ...

The Catholic Church announced that priests will be excommunicated if they follow a new Washington state law requiring clergy to report confessions about child abuse to law enforcement.