BYZANTINE RITE CATHOLICS. The Byzantine Rite Catholic Church resulted from efforts by the Roman Catholic Church to convert Eastern Orthodox Christians in the old Austro-Hungarian Empire during the ...

Jessica Harvey used to worship in a church ... Catholic liturgy that has set off one of the fiercest controversies in modern Catholicism. In 2021, Pope Francis restricted access to the old rite ...

Last year His Eminence George William Cardinal Mundelein, Roman Catholic Archbishop of Chicago, sent a message to His Beatitude Joseph Emanuel Thomas II. Patriarch of Babylon, Shepherd of Eastern ...

Eastern-rite Catholics accept the authority of the pope but have many of their own rituals and liturgy. They include the Coptic, Chaldean, Maronite and Eritrean Catholic churches, as well as the ...

Cardinal Varkey Vithayathil of Ernakulam-Angamaly, who heads the Oriental-rite Catholic Church based in the southern Indian state of Kerala, promulgated the changes in five of the seven Sacraments in ...