After deadly riots, Ecuador's bishops call for 'evaluation' of prison system
- Feb 27, 2021
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As refugees increase, German bishops work to include Eastern Catholics
- Oct 19, 2020
Germany’s bishops have pledged to improve the integration of Eastern Catholics in the predominant Latin-rite church, as part of ongoing plans to help migrants and refugees.
Take-aways from the Vatican’s ‘Thursday Thunder’
- Aug 8, 2020
For the whole Catholic world, August 15 means the Feast of the Assumption. In Italy, it also means ferragosto, the traditional summer holiday that sees the whole country head to either the beach or the mountains, or both, roughly from the second week of August until early September.
Vatican asks bishops to help faithful celebrate Holy Week, Easter at home
- Mar 25, 2020
The Vatican has asked Catholic bishops around the world, both in the Latin rite and the Eastern Catholic Churches, to provide their faithful with resources to support personal and family prayer during Holy Week and at Easter, especially where COVID-19 restrictions prevent them from going to church.
U.S. ‘ad limina’ visits conclude with Byzantine liturgy at Rome basilica
- Feb 22, 2020
The last group of U.S. bishops to make their “ad limina” visits to Rome chose to celebrate the final liturgy of their visit at Rome’s Basilica of St. Clement because of its ties to the Christian East.
U.S. Eastern Catholic bishops thank pope for lifting ban on married priests
- Feb 20, 2020
Pope Francis “is a father who knows very well his daughters and sons,” including those who belong to the Eastern Catholic churches, said the Armenian Catholic bishop of the United States and Canada.
Eastern churches help Catholic Church be truly catholic, bishop says
- Feb 19, 2020
In the United States, there are 17 eparchies — dioceses — that belong to one of nine Eastern Catholic churches: the Ukrainian, Ruthenian, Maronite, Chaldean, Melkite, Syriac, Syro-Malabar, Armenian and Romanian Catholic Churches. Most on on their ad limina visit to Rome.
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