Twenty-three Eastern Catholic Churches are in full communion with the Bishop of Rome. Six are headed by a patriarch: the Coptic, Syriac, Melkite Greek, Maronite, Chaldean, and Armenian Catholic ...

Pope Leo XIV issued on Saturday a reform to the Code of Canons for Eastern Churches, the common legal framework for the 23 Eastern Catholic Churches sui iuris. The new law creates a mechanism for the ...

The statement was issued after a Sept. 14 meeting in Rome between the pontifical delegates overseeing the IVE and its female counterpart, the Servants of the Lord and the Virgin of Matará, the ...

The patriarch of the Syriac Catholic Church told The Pillar Tuesday that a Vatican cardinal is behind a recent papal law ...

The U.S. State Department’s Bureau of African Affairs called Sept. 22 for a probe into the strike on the convoy carrying 45.2 ...

Monday saw a major leadership transition in a small but historically significant Catholic community in Belarus.

Fabrizia Raguso has known Father Marko Rupnik for more than 30 years, and has come forward publicly to allege the priest spiritually and psychologically abused her. Raguso moved to Portugal as a ...

In the case of The Catholic University of America, faculty stints in government service are not uncommon — in 2019 Prof.

Welcome to Starting Seven, The Pillar’s daily newsletter. I’m Luke Coppen and I aim to guide you each weekday morning to the most interesting Catholic news and commentary. 📜 Today’s readings: Friday ...

A bishop appointed to the Secretariat of the Synod told The Pillar that the secretariat continues to be as significant under ...