VATICAN: The faithful and the heirarchy of the Eastern Catholic Churches are invited to a series of Divine Liturgies taking ...

Celebration of the liturgy is the primary faith-formational activity of the Catholic Church. In and through the liturgy, Catholics are brought into the Paschal Mystery of dying and rising with Christ ...

Youssef Absi, Patriarch of Antioch and All the Orient, of Alexandria and of Jerusalem and head of the Melkite Greek Catholic Church, blesses the coffin during the funeral of Pope Francis in St.

Sunday, May 4, at 5 p.m. local Rome time, 11 a.m. ET, in the Vatican Basilica for the Papal ChapelThe funeral liturgy will be presided over by His Eminence Cardinal Dominique Mamberti, protodeacon ...

With the death of Pope Francis on Easter Monday, one may notice that there have been some changes in the prayers within the celebration of the mass that are for the repose of the soul of the pope and ...

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In southern Lebanon, for example, Mass was held amid the rubble of the bombed St George Melkite Catholic Church -- a symbol of both suffering and resilience.

One of the rumored frontrunners is Cardinal Robert Sarah. Robert Sarah, 79, of Guinea, the retired head of the Vatican’s liturgy office, has long been considered the best hope for an African pope.

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(AP Photo/Dan Bashakov) Worshippers gather for Easter Mass inside the ruins of St. George Melkite Catholic Church, damaged by Israeli airstrike, in Dardghaya, southern Lebanon, Sunday, April 20, 2025.

open image in gallery Worshippers gather for Easter Mass inside the ruins of St George Melkite Catholic Church in Dardghaya, southern Lebanon, on Sunday, after the church was heavily damaged in an ...

In Lebanon, shocking images showed a priest and several worshipers attending the Easter mass at the Saint George Melkite Greek Catholic Church. The building was seen as just a pile of stones and ...