Eastern Catholic Churches Archives

Have courage, pray fervently, pope tells churches facing persecution
- Catholic News Service, Vatican
- October 12, 2017
In a Mass with the Congregation for Eastern Churches, Pope Francis recalled the congregation was founded during the tumultuous time of World War I and that, today, another kind of world war continues to rage with “so many of our Christian brothers and sisters of the Eastern churches experiencing tragic persecutions and an ever more disturbing diaspora.”
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Vatican office has been supporting Eastern Catholics for 100 years
- Catholic News Service, Vatican
- August 17, 2017
Vatican II urged a recovery of the Eastern Catholic traditions, liturgy and spirituality. But, especially for Eastern Catholics living far from their churches’ homelands, uprooting vestiges of the “Latinization” can prove difficult.
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Be protagonists of change, Cardinal Sandri tells Ukrainian youth
- Catholic News Agency, Global Church, Vatican
- July 21, 2017
Cardinal Leonardo Sandri, prefect of the Congregation for Eastern Churches, made a July 11-17 visit to Ukraine to participate in the national pilgrimage to the Shrine of Zarvanytsia, located 15 miles north of Buchach.
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In new school, Byzantine spirituality meets Montessori method

Sophia Montessori of Denver is in its final stages of its development, and classes for children aged between three and six are expected to start in the fall of this year. The school envisions Catholic teaching and the Montessori Method being brought together.

In Ukraine, Vatican cardinal says there’s hope for the future

Cardinal Leonardo Sandri visits Ukraine in the midst of ongoing upheaval in the country, largely the result of political instability and tensions surrounding the Russian invasion of their eastern region in 2014, which prompted a conflict that has endured three years, claimed thousands of lives and displaced millions of others.

Pope: Clergy in Middle East must be the ‘last among the least’

Pope Francis called clergy in the Middle East to “learn to be the last among the least,” and lamented the continued plight of Christians suffering due to persecution. “Let us not forget,” the pope said, that “Christians — it doesn’t matter whether they are Catholic, Orthodox or Protestant — shed their blood as a seal of their witness.”