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 ...

It may surprise most people to know that there are many different rites within the Catholic ... universal Church, the Pope is shepherd of the rites of the West and the East. The eastern rites ...

Aleksandr Lukashenko visited the Holy Dormition Stavropigial Monastery in Zhirovichi. The conversation with the clergy was ...

Mont Saint Michel rector Father Pierre Doat, who has just published a novel about the role and figure of angels, believes ...

In 1215, a new church document mandated that every Catholic go to confession and receive Holy Communion at least once a year. Priests who revealed the identity of any penitent faced severe penalties.

The faithful can be granted a special indulgence - or remission of their sins - in dozens of churches in Malta during the 2025 Catholic Holy ... need to have gone to confession and received ...

The head of Chechnya Ramzan Kadyrov congratulated Russian Christians on Christmas. He wrote the address on his Telegram ...

Catholic Charities is a vibrant organization with offices throughout the Middle Peninsula. Catholic Charities of Eastern Virginia (CCEVA) was founded in 1932 as the Norfolk ... A copy of the ...

A Swiss Catholic church installed an AI Jesus in a confessional to interact with visitors. The installation was a two-month project in religion, technology and art titled “Deus in Machina,” which ...

But something feels unchristmassy about me and about my world. The worst part of this funk is that I have not been to church. I don’t even know why. Christians have been observing Advent for ...

Raphael Thattil was made the Major Archbishop of the Syro-Malabar Church, the largest Eastern Catholic Church, in January this year. His predecessors -- Mar JosephParekattil (1969), Mar Antony ...