It may surprise most people to know that there are many different rites within the Catholic Church ... of the rites of the West and the East. The eastern rites which have a separate code of ...

Several Council Fathers, particularly of the Melkite rite, used the Council ... so as to better embrace Eastern Christians — both those within the Catholic communion and those outside of it.

Thesis (J.C.L.)--Catholic University of America, 2014. Bibliography: leaves 64-70. Also available in microfilm. This item is being shared by an institution as a part ...