Depending on the Church the Convert is coming from (such as Greek Orthodox, Russian, Syriac Orthodox etc) they will be received into that Sui Juris Church, no matter what Church one is converting through. If somebody is converting to the Catholic Church from the Greek Orthodox faith in a Roman Church, they will automatically become Greek Catholic.
If a Protestant or a convert becomes a Catholic they will become Roman Catholic. However they can switch rites which can take a large amount of time.
If they want to be rite X but only live near rite Y, must they belong to rite Y?
And would that be different if they could once in a while (like a couple times a year) attend rite X like for confirmation/chrismation?
Church Ascription Upon Conversion from Fr. George Gallaro, a professor of canon law and ecumenism at the Byzantine Catholic Seminary of Ss. Cyril and Methodius.
“Protestants who enter into the full Catholic communion are to be ascribed to the Latin Church, since their Ecclesial Communities sprang from the Western/Latin tradition.”
Generally, many of them receive their transfer immediately after reception because they took their instruction in the Eastern Rites.
And taking instruction in a Rite would require being there on a regular basis?
Pretty much…
non-Christians(people who have never been baptized) can choose the rite they want to be
technalities. I am sure there are ways to shorten/work around these procedures which, after all, primarily consist of various forms to be filled out and signed (I know because I’ve gone through them!).I took a lot of time finding out the answer to this question, in large part because of you, Aramis, but I finally have the answer thanks to a friend of mine who was baptized Episcopalian (obviously Latin in tradition, then - less ambiguous than my baptism, through a non-denominational charismatic church), and chrismated Ruthenian Catholic.
I’m well aware of this for Phoenix - but there’s not much outside the Ruthenian Church to support that view, and a lot to the contrary.
A non-Christian adult (age 14 or greater) can choose Catholic church sui iuris, otherwise the closest equivalent which is the Latin for non-apostolic Christians is the church of enrollment (regardless of which Catholic church sui iuris receives the faithful).
So they are not obligated to join the Latin rite? And if they are not able to be regularly catechized at a sui iuris church, are they still able to join that rite?
No. The CCEO canon law states the unbaptized of age fourteen or greater may choose to be “enrolled by virtue of baptism received in that same Church”:Can. 30 - Quilibet baptizandus, qui decimum quartum aetatis annum explevit, libere potest seligere quamcumque Ecclesiam sui iuris, cui per baptismum in eadem susceptum ascribitur, salvo iure particulari a Sede Apostolica statuto.