BEIRUT (CNS) — The new patriarch of the Maronite Catholic Church pledged to work with Muslims, noting that Lebanon is a country of partnership between Muslims and Christians. Patriarch Bechara Rai ...

When a priest consecrates, or makes holy, the bread and wine during a Maronite Rite Mass, he speaks in Aramaic, the spoken language of Jesus Christ. Hearing the words Jesus is said to have used when ...

Previously "venerable" Maronite brother Estephan Nehme was beatified on Sunday morning in Lebanon. The Holy Father remembered Blessed Estephan after the Angelus prayer in St. Peter's Square, ...

Pope Francis and Maronite Fr. Georges Briedi hold a Lebanese flag as they pray for the country — following an explosion in Beirut — during the the pope's weekly general audience at the Vatican Sept. 2 ...

Michael Shami, a seminarian at the Pontifical North American College, is pictured during his ordination as a deacon at the college in Rome June 2, 2019. Shami was ordained as a deacon using the ...

ST. LOUIS — When Wissam Akiki was ordained as a Maronite Catholic priest Thursday night in St. Louis, he was welcomed by hundreds of supporters, including his wife and daughter. Akiki, 41, speaking at ...