Pope Leo XIV is vowing to actively promote and protect the spirituality and traditions of the eastern rite churches, those Catholic communities with origins in the Middle East and North Africa that ha ...

As the College of Cardinals prepares to gather in the conclave, the global Church enters a moment of discernment — and of speculation. Behind closed doors, names are floated, alliances weighed ...

Pope Leo I tangled with Attila the Hun and won. Pope Leo III crowned Charlemagne as the first Holy Roman Emperor. This is the ...

Ecumenical Patriarch Bartholomew met with Pope Leo XIV at the Vatican, one day after he attended the papal inauguration ...

EASTERN ORTHODOX CHURCHES. There are many parallels between the beliefs of the Eastern Orthodox church and those of the Roman Catholic church, but there are also fundamental differences. Some of the ...

On the seventh day of the Novendiales Masses for Pope Francis ... as an apostolic nuncio to countries with many Eastern Catholics and Orthodox, including Belarus, Ukraine, Armenia, Georgia ...

As Vatican Media explained, most of them originated from historical reunions between Eastern Orthodox communities and the Roman Catholic Church, and they can be found across Eastern Europe ...

While the figures are tiny compared to the number of people attending Catholic and non-denominational ... in California before entering the Eastern Orthodox community in 2007 and starting at ...

Unlike Orthodox Christians, these Catholic churches fully recognize papal authority. In his remarks, Leo acknowledged that many eastern rite Catholics have been forced to flee their homelands ...

Leo’s commitments present a challenge to the nationalism and isolationism currently promoted by the White House.