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

Metropolitans are picked by the Pope from a list given by a synod of bishops. BYZANTINE. The largest of these eastern rites is the Byzantine. The Byzantine liturgy is based on liturgy developed by St.

Catholic bishops of the Eastern rite Syro-Malabar Church have opposed changes to the forest law in southern Kerala state, saying the move could harm farmers amid a rising man-animal conflict. The ...

The head of the India-based Eastern-rite Syro Malabar Church has lauded the Vatican for appointing Cardinal George J. Koovakad as the new prefect of the Dicastery for Interreligious Dialogue. The Jan.

Nearly 170 bishops from France and around the world took part, as well as one priest from each of the parishes in the Paris diocese and one priest from each of the seven Eastern-rite Catholic ...