Pope meets with head of Greek Catholic Church in Ukraine, who invites him to Kyiv

Pope Leo XIV held a meeting with representatives of the Catholic Churches of the Eastern Rite, in which all the hierarchs of the Ukrainian Greek Catholic Church also took part.

Pope meets with head of Greek Catholic Church in Ukraine, who invites him to Kyiv

Pope Leo XIV has met at the Vatican with the head of the Greek Catholic Church in Ukraine. It was one of his first audiences as pontiff that reaffirmed his appeal for a peaceful, negotiated end to Russia’s war. His…

Pope Leo XIV: Catholics need to rediscover ‘sense of mystery’ in the liturgy

Pope Leo XIV's praise for the beauty and 'mystery' of the Eastern liturgy has given hope to Catholics that he might be more favorable to the traditional Mass than his predecessor.

Pope Leo XIV says Eastern Catholics often see violence, calls for peace

Pope Leo XIV says the Church needs the Christian East and has a “great need to recover the sense of mystery that remains alive in your … liturgies that engage the human person in his or her entirety.” The new pontiff was speaking to participants in the Jubilee of the Oriental Churches in the Vatican’s Audience Hall on Wednesday. There are 23 Eastern Catholic Churches in the world, consisting of nearly 20 million people. The Eastern Catholic Chur…

Meeting Eastern Catholics, pope pledges to be peacemaker

"The peoples of our world desire peace, and to their leaders I appeal with all my heart: Let us meet, let us talk, let us negotiate!" the pope said May 14.

In the Paul VI Hall the meeting with the Eastern faithful along with their patriarchs and metropolitans, who arrived in Rome for the Jubilee. "The Church needs you." Remembered the invitation of Leo XIII: "Customize the Christian East, especially in the diaspora." Citiates Ephrem the Syrian and Isaac of Nineveh. On conflicts in the lands of the East: "Holy See available for enemies to meet" ...