It may surprise most people to know that there are many different rites within the Catholic ... Maronite. CHALDEAN. The people in modern day Iran and Iraq were once known as the Assyrians. The ...

Elected the 266th Pope of the Catholic Church, Pope Francis took on the mantle at a time when the Catholic Church was grappling with several issues. This included the child sex abuse scandal ...

The abuse crisis in the Catholic Church exposed deep cultural and systemic failings. Francis’ renewal efforts, including his convening of worldwide synod assemblies, sought to build more ...

A Church sui iuiris is a distinct community of faithful within a rite of the Church. For example, there are 22 eastern Churches sui iuris, made up of two Alexandrian, three Antiochene, one ...

(Local10.com graphic using Google Maps) Related story ... conservative Catholics when he encouraged the church to be more welcoming of Catholic divorcees and same-sex couples.

The papacy of Pope Francis ended with the same core doctrine for LGBTQ+ people that he inherited: The Catholic Church still rejected same-sex marriage and condemned any sexual relations between ...

GRAND RAPIDS, MI – Catholic churches in the Grand Rapids area are inviting all members of the Christian faith to join in prayer to mourn the death of Pope Francis. Bishop David Walkowiak of the ...