For this month's picks we'll look at the Eastern Catholic Church, as many in the West are not familiar with it.

A good place to start learning about Eastern Catholics is from the article titled “Catholic Rites and Churches” found in the EWTN online library at ewtn.com/expert/answers/rites.htm.

Byzantines.net was started by an Eastern Catholic webmaster, Greg Bronson, who wanted to create a general interest site on Eastern Christianity. The “About Byzantine Catholics” link is a good place to begin here.

At St. Michael the Archangel Ukrainian Catholic Church in Baltimore, crosslink.net/~hrycak/

Welcome-s.html, you can learn about the Ukrainian Church as well as this particular Catholic church. You may want to see its “Unofficial Directory of Eastern Catholic Churches in the U.S.” link to find and experience an Eastern church near you.

Another place to search for an Eastern Catholic church in your city is at Masstimes.org. Follow the “Mass Times by City” link and find your city. Then look for a parish with an Eastern Church designation after its name in brackets, such as: (Maronite).

For more Eastern Church links see the Eastern topics in my online directory at monksofadoration.org /directory.html.