St. John Paul II, Pope of the Catholic Church from 1978 until his death in 2005, once said “the Church must breathe with her two lungs.” Those two lungs, the Eastern Catholic Church and the Roman ...

“In the past, Eastern Catholics have agreed to adhere to full communion with the successor of the apostle Peter, whose body rests in this basilica. And it was in the name of this union that they bore ...

The late Pope Francis was a great friend to the East. He worked closely with Ecumenical Patriarch Bartholomew on issues ranging from the environment to a common date for Easter. He lifted the ...

Pope Leo XIV greets people at Jubilee of the Oriental Churches in the Vatican’s Audience Hall on May 14, 2025. (Credit: Vatican Media.) Listen Pope Leo XIV says the Church needs the Christian East and ...

During a meeting with Eastern Catholics, many of whom come from war-torn regions of the world, Pope Leo XIV pledged the Vatican's full commitment to promoting peace and reconciliation. "The peoples of ...

Pope Leo XIV. 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. Seated ...

Church leaders in the Christian East welcomed the election of Pope Leo XIV on May 8, noting his first words to the crowd in St. Peter's Square were about peace. Ecumenical Patriarch Bartholomew of ...

Eastern Catholic leaders are remembering Pope Francis for bringing significant attention to their churches and traditions throughout his papacy, in a legacy marked by fraternity and many firsts, while ...

Pope Leo XIV denounced the “violent conflict [that] seems to be raging in the Christian East with a diabolical intensity previously unknown” and said the Christians of the West must do more to help ...

A new kind of Catholic worship is in Des Moines. State of play: Des Moines now hosts a regular Byzantine Catholic Divine Liturgy — a service rooted in Eastern Catholicism that looks and feels ...