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 ...

In a change to church law, Latin-rite Catholic deacons may not preside at a wedding when one or both of the new spouses are members of an Eastern Catholic church. The new rule is one of the changes to ...

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 ...

NEW YORK (RNS) Top Catholic and Orthodox church officials in North America are calling on the Vatican to let married men become priests in Eastern rite Catholic churches, another sign that optional ...

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 ...

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, ...

Bishop John M. Botean of the Romanian Catholic Eparchy of St George’s in Canton, Ohio, center, and other bishops of the Eastern Catholic churches in the United States arrive in procession to ...

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 ...

Both family life and consecrated life are in danger today, threatened by an individualistic and secularized culture. Yet the crisis of the family and the crisis of consecrated religious life are not ...

Pope Leo XIV called for Christians to "overcome the scandal of the divisions" that separates Roman Catholics from Eastern Orthodox.