VATICAN CITY — Leaders of the Eastern Catholic ... Chaldean Archbishop Bashar Warda of Erbil said he read the Pope’s discourse twice, saying it showed the Holy Spirit is “giving the Church ...

Born in Iraq in 1948, Sako became patriarch of the Chaldean Catholic Church in 2013 and was appointed ... At just 39, he was appointed custodian of the Holy Land. Named Latin patriarch of ...

Hope and strength to begin again Bishop Boutros Marayati, the Armenian Catholic prelate of Aleppo, Syria, shared with ACN how the Holy Father's words led ... which he described as the Church of ...

Pope Leo XIV appears to have taken to heart a plea from one of his closest neighbors during the conclave--Cardinal Louis Sako, Patriarch of the Chaldean Catholic Church in Iraq ... "I think of Ukraine ...

Many of them waved the flags of their war-torn home countries, including Lebanon, Syria, Ethiopia, the Holy ... Catholic Church; Cardinal Louis Sako, the Iraq-based patriarch of the Chaldean ...

This statue of the martyred Spanish bishop is located in the convent church of the Augustinians ... including numerous martyrs, are buried in the rock-hewn papal basilica, atop which stands ...

"The Chaldean Cross serves as a symbolic memorial for those martyrs who were ... represent the nine ranks of Holy Orders in the Chaldean Church, signifying the Catholic teaching that the Church ...

Today, the world learned the identity of the new leader of the Catholic Church — Leo XIV ... streets and parking lot surrounding Five Holy Martyrs Church at 43rd and Richmond Street on Oct ...

The whole nature of Christian martyrdom has shifted in the 21st century, according to Robert Royal. The whole nature of ...

Francis’ papacy honored Latin American Catholics killed for their social justice work, a theologian explains – and Leo may ...

"It's a sacrifice — just like the one Jesus made for us," said Sr. Stella Aketch "The Ugandan martyrs also gave their lives ...

(The Conversation) — Every pope brings a distinct vision and agenda for leading the church. Making change is difficult in the Catholic Church ... Council that the Holy Spirit – that is ...