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 ...

The eastern rites which have a separate code of canon ... All the rites of the Catholic Church are of equal dignity and equally valid. Attendance at a different rite fulfills the Sunday obligation.

COMMENTARY: Approved on the same day as ‘Lumen Gentium’ and ‘Unitatis Redintegratio,’ ‘Orientalium Ecclesiarum’ manifests the ...

The head of the India-based Eastern-rite Syro Malabar Church has lauded the Vatican for appointing ... he was ordained a priest of the Syro-Malabar Catholic Archeparchy of Changanacherry in 2004. He ...

As clergy and faithful present proclaimed “Axios! Axios! Axios!” (Greek for “He is worthy”), Fr. Artur Bubnevych was ...

An 82-year-old priest was pushed off the altar amid a clash during Sunday Mass inside a church in southern Kerala ...