Eastern Rites

Pope Leo grants Eastern Synods the faculty to remove patriarchs

Vatican News · August 31, 2026

In a motu proprio Pope Leo XIV grants the Synod of Bishops of the Eastern Churches the power, through "an orderly procedure," to remove a patriarch from office.

New Chaldean patriarch elected for Iraq

OSV News · April 15, 2026

Iraqi Archbishop Amel Shamon Nona has been elected patriarch of the Chaldean Catholic Church, taking the name Paul III and succeeding Cardinal Louis Sako.

Head of Romanian Greek Catholic Church dies at 94

Catholic News Service · September 26, 2025

Cardinal Lucian Muresan, major archbishop of Fagaras and Alba Iulia and head of the Romanian Greek Catholic Church, died Sept. 25 at the age of 94.

Bychok comforts wounded brethren

Cardinal strives to be an ‘island of hope’ for Ukrainians worldwide affected by war

Quinton Amundson · September 12, 2025

Cardinal Mykola Bychok's first sojourn to Canadian soil came with a message of support for families devastated by Russia’s invasion of Ukraine, with a call for continued prayers for peace.

Syro-Malabar rite enriches Yukon

Quinton Amundson · September 28, 2024

Sacred Heart Cathedral in Whitehorse has long stood out in Yukon for being the only traditional, fully-fledged Catholic parish in a territory populated with missionary churches.