All the rites of the Catholic Church are of equal dignity and equally valid. Attendance at a different rite fulfills the Sunday obligation. The Catholic Church is truly universal since it unites ...

Nearly all prefects ... for the church to go to the “existential peripheries” to find those who suffer — an off-the-cuff speech that helped his election. Any baptized Roman Catholic male ...

Nearly all prefects of Vatican offices lose their ... In November 2024, Francis reformed the rites to be used for his funeral, simplifying them to emphasize his role as a mere bishop and allowing ...

BYZANTINE RITE CATHOLICS. The Byzantine Rite Catholic Church ... In 1947 he started an all-day parish school; a new convent was completed for the Sisters of St. Basil in 1953; and in 1956 both the ...

VATICAN CITY — The death of a pope starts a centuries-old ritual involving sacred oaths by the cardinals electing a successor, the piercing of ballots with a needle and thread after they’re ...