Different Types of Catholicism?

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Looking on the forum, I noticed two Catholic forums: Traditional and Eastern. Also, I see people calling themselves [Greek/LatinRite/Roman/RomanRite] Catholic. I’ve even seen people say “LDS and Catholic” and “Muslim Catholic”. :confused:

What’s up with this?
 
As far as I know, there are 23 rites in Catholicism. Latin being the most common. The remaining 22 are Eastern rites that are in full communion with the Pope.

Edit: Maybe I should have looked into this a bit more, I can’t seem to find that 23 number.

Here is a source that seemed pretty useful:

grigaitis.net/?doc=articles/rites.html

It looks like there are 6 major rites.
 
One definitely cannot be LDS and Catholic or Mormon and Catholic. Perhaps some people are in the process of converting, I don’t know. I never noticed that myself.

As for the rest, one has to remember that early Christianity spread across cultures and began to develop organically in each place. In some areas Christianity died out and in others it flourished. This happened over and over again over time, with essentially five major spiritual and liturgical traditions becoming dominant.

The Latin tradition (Roman Catholicism) happens to be the largest of these in north America today but is just one of several.

It may help to see a map of the Roman empire from approximately the time of Christ.

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Christianity spread across the empire along the good roads from city to city, but also crossed over the borders into further regions, like India and Persia. In fact the first kingdom to actually formally convert was not Roma, but Armenia! The practices and prayers of Armenian Christians differs somewhat from what you may be familiar with.

https://jspivey.wikispaces.com/file/view/Map__spread_of_Christianity_to__12th_century___medium.jpg

Eventually Christianity spread to Abyssinia, India and even China by the seventh century.


Ancient Egyptian temple once converted into a church


Christian stele, seventh century China

At one time, uniformity was highly prized, and there was this concept that all Christians should pray and worship using the same forms. The trouble is that everyone thought their own way was best! So that did not work out too well, there were a lot of hard feelings over that.

Today we are a bit more enlightened, and we now place more value on the diversity of Christian expression than in the past.

http://www.armenianchurch.net/news/photos/Aleksy.jpg
Patriarchs of Armenia and Russia

Others may post a long list of all the churches that are in communion with each other, but that is not really necessary. Just remember that there are many types of liturgies and these originated in diverse places, but all see their origins in the work of the Apostles, while professing what is essentially a common Faith.
 
More or less the easiest way to explain it is in communion with Rome. Anotherwards they agree and obey the teachings of the Pope. There are just different rites. LIke the RC the Priests choose this rite and give up the rite ot be married. Its different customs but the teachings of scripture are exactly that same.
 
There are different rites of Catholicism, like Latin, Greek, Melkotide, etc.

Some tend to use political tags like conservative, liberal, etc., which are meaningless.

Traditional Catholics are Catholics who go to the Latin Mass. The term grew out of a hypocritical movement within the Church to not embrace the Ordinary Form of the Mass. Can be used incorrectly to refer to devotions and popular piety like the Rosary, Holy Hour of Reparation, etc.

Eastern Catholics are Catholics who aren’t a part of the Latin rite.

And Catholics who are non-Christian or non-Catholic (Protestant, Methodist, Buddhist, Muslim, etc.) are hypocrites and only fooling themselves into thinking they can serve both God and mammon.
 
TristanCross said:
I see people calling themselves [Greek/LatinRite/Roman/RomanRite] Catholic. I’ve even seen people say “LDS and Catholic” and “Muslim Catholic”. :confused:

What’s up with this?
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They’re confused as you cannot be both. I know of a couple who claim they are both. Not possible. It is the person who is confused.
 
And Catholics who are non-Christian or non-Catholic (Protestant, Methodist, Buddhist, Muslim, etc.) are hypocrites and only fooling themselves into thinking they can serve both God and mammon.
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I can feel your love…:rolleyes:
 
rinnie said:
Tristan what does really considering Catholicism = 0 Mean?
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I think it means something like “gasp!,” or :eek: Am I right, Tristan?

Anyway–as you can see, I’m a Byzantine Catholic. Byzantine Rite is an Eastern Rite in communion with the Holy See of Rome. We have our own distinct liturgical traditions, devotions, etc–however, we are faithful the Pope of Rome as our Head. Greek, Melkite, Syro-Malabar, etc Catholics would say the same thing.

However, one cannot be Mormon Catholic. Maybe they are on the transition from Mormonism to Catholicism, as someone else suggested. I don’t know…🤷
 
Jander said:
As far as I know, there are 23 rites in Catholicism. Latin being the most common. The remaining 22 are Eastern rites that are in full communion with the Pope.

Edit: Maybe I should have looked into this a bit more, I can’t seem to find that 23 number.

Here is a source that seemed pretty useful:

grigaitis.net/?doc=articles/rites.html

It looks like there are 6 major rites.
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There are some 22-23 sui juris Catholic Churches–that’s the proper term.

There are only a half-dozen “rites” or liturgical familes among them.
 
TristanCross said:
Looking on the forum, I noticed two Catholic forums: Traditional and Eastern. Also, I see people calling themselves [Greek/LatinRite/Roman/RomanRite] Catholic. I’ve even seen people say “LDS and Catholic” and “Muslim Catholic”. :confused:

What’s up with this?
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There is One Faith - & many ways of manifesting it. We don’t ask the tongue to do the work of or to be a foot: the body is united, but not uniform. Why should Christians be uniform ?​

Was that what you were asking about ?
 
TristanCross said:
Oaky, first off, what is a rite anyway?
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A rite is a distinct cultural way in which the sacraments are celebrated. So, for example, you can go to Mass in the Roman rite, and then go to “Divine Liturgy” in the Byzantine rite, and you will notice substantial differences in the way they’re celebrated. However, the important part is they all hold to the same set of doctrines.
 
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