Eastern Rite News Today

A meeting between the Syro-Malabar Catholic Church in India and Pope Francis is causing some controversy in the Eastern Rite Church.

The draft in Ukraine was recently extended to 25-year-olds from 27-year-olds. The new draft law does not specify how long a draft notice would last

In the two years since Russia's full scale invasion of Ukraine began on Feb. 24, 2022, hundreds of thousands of Ukrainians have come to Canada. In Toronto, Ukrainian students in elementary school through to university are working to make the best of the situation.

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This scripture in Acts, where it mentions the holiday of Easter, was not referring to the resurrection. Even way back then, the pagan practice of Easter eggs was in place. 

Church official hints at action against priests who refused to read out bishop’s circular during Sunday Mass

Pray with all of your heart for greater unity among Christians around the world. Jesus himself desired that "all may be one."

The 67-year-old Bishop of Shamshabad was elected yesterday by the local Synod in Kochi and confirmed by Pope Francis. In his first words to the faithful, he said that “we should stand together and work together.” The Eastern rite community of six million members has been shaken in recent years by a major row over the liturgy centred in the Archdiocese of Ernakulam-Angamaly.

VATICAN CITY (RNS) — Maltese Archbishop Charles Scicluna said he has already made his case for married priests at the Vatican.

The Roman Catholic Church should "seriously think" about allowing priests to marry, a senior Vatican official and advisor to Pope Francis said in an interview published on Sunday.