To Vito Nicastro, it's one of the wonders of the modern age. For the vast majority of Catholic history, he said, you'd have to go halfway around the world to hear a Mass in Ukrai ...

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 ...

Catholics in an Eastern Rite archdiocese in India have demanded that their church’s Synod of Bishops reopen its cathedral ...

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 ...

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.

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 ...

A lingering liturgical dispute in an Eastern Rite Church in India has been resolved, ending decades of controversies that brought the Church to the brink of schism and led to violent attacks and ...