Question on different Rights and Orders of the Catholic Church

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Hey all!

So I guess I know that there are many different rights and orders within the Catholic Church as a whole (Benedictine, Fransiscan, Latin Right, etc.) but I’m not reallu sure how everything ties in. Is it like the Protestant Churches where it’s one big church with many different little churches, ie Baptist, Lutheran, etc.? I know that, of course, the different parts of the Catholic church are much different than the different parts of the Protestant church because we all believe the same things…well…yeah, I really don’t know:) Can anyone explain all of this to me? I’m Roman Catholic, what is the difference between that and Eastern Orthodox? Where do all the different rights and orders come in? Is everyone under Rome or just some of us?

Thanks for you help:)

In Him,
Britty
 
an order is a group or community of religious men (brothers/monks fathers/priests) or women (nuns/sisters) devoted to prayer and a particular charism (eg dominicans are the order of preachers and devote much time to teaching and explaining the faith)

a rite is a section of the universal chuch that has its own customs, episcopal governance, and ways of clebrating sacriments. the deposit of faith in scripture and tradition is the same between all rites (unklike the orthodox or protestant faiths), and they all are subject and obediant to the pope (not as thelatin rite bishop of rome but as the successor of Peter)
 
the eastern orthodox are national or regional/ethnic chuches that separated from the Catholic Church (CATHOLIC CHURCH IS ALL RITES, roman Cath. Chuch is just the western rite) in terms of obedience to the pope and some traditions. the eastern rite chuches are very similar to the orthodox (i think) except they are loyal to the pope.
 
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CheesusPowerKid:
Hey all!

So I guess I know that there are many different rights and orders within the Catholic Church as a whole (Benedictine, Fransiscan, Latin Right, etc.) but I’m not reallu sure how everything ties in. Is it like the Protestant Churches where it’s one big church with many different little churches, ie Baptist, Lutheran, etc.? I know that, of course, the different parts of the Catholic church are much different than the different parts of the Protestant church because we all believe the same things…well…yeah, I really don’t know:) Can anyone explain all of this to me? I’m Roman Catholic, what is the difference between that and Eastern Orthodox? Where do all the different rights and orders come in? Is everyone under Rome or just some of us?

Thanks for you help:)

In Him,
Britty
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The Catholic Church is ONE Church because It has a “Unity of Faith” not a uniformity of practice or worship. The Protestant communities do not have unity between and sometimes even within a single denomination.
 
Benedictine, Fransiscans, Dominicans, Jesuits, etc.; are classified as ‘usage’. “Usage” is a term of recent origin that ordinarily denotes limited, localized differences within a church itself (as opposed to Rescensions, which occur within a Rite). The Catholic Faith / Church (captial ‘C’) is composed of 22 Rescensions / churches (little ‘c’) spread across 6 Rites / Traditions : * Alexandrean Rite
- Coptic Catholic church
- Ethiopian (& Eritrean) Catholic church
  • Antiochene Rite
    • Syriac Catholic church
    • Syro-Malabarese Catholic church
    • Syro-Malankarese Catholic church
  • Armenian Rite
    • Armenian Catholic church
  • Byzantine Rite
    • Albanian Catholic church
    • Belarusan Catholic church
    • Bulgarian Catholic church
    • Croatian Catholic church
    • Georgian Catholic church
    • Greek Catholic church
    • Hungarian Catholic church
    • Italo-Greco-Albanian Catholic church
    • Melkite Catholic church
    • Russian Catholic church
    • Romanian Catholic church
    • Ruthenian Catholic church
    • Slovakian Catholic church
    • Ukrainian Catholic church
  • Latin Rite
    • Roman Catholic church
  • Maronite Rite
    • Maronite Catholic church
 
Sir Knight:

The Eastern Catholic Churches are not little “c” Churches – they are Churches sui iuris or “in their own right” or capital “C” Churches. They are actually independent Churches in communion with Rome. Other than that, excellent post.

Deacon Ed
 
Thank you.

Now a question of my own …
Deacon Ed:
… The Eastern Catholic Churches are not little “c” Churches – they are Churches sui iuris or “in their own right” or capital “C” Churches …
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  1. Are you saying that they are not Rescensions? I was under the impression that ALL Rescensions were little “c” Churches.
  2. If they are not Rescensions, how are they classified? Not seperate Rites / Traditions?
 
Sir Knight:
Thank you.

Now a question of my own … 1) Are you saying that they are not Rescensions? I was under the impression that ALL Rescensions were little “c” Churches.
  1. If they are not Rescensions, how are they classified? Not seperate Rites / Traditions?
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The term “recension” refers to the liturgical form that is used. For example, all Byzantine Churches use the Divine Liturgy of St. John Chrysostom. However, the “variations” between, say, the Ruthenians and the Melkites are “recensions.” The Ruthenian Church is, in fact, a Metropolitan Church sui iuris and has a Metropolitan Bishop as the “head” while the Melkite Church is a Patriarchal Church and has a Patriarch as its head (His Beatitude Gregory III).

You were correct that there are six Rites in the Church: Latin, Armenian, Byzantine, chaldean, Coptic, and Syriac. Recensions apply to the liturgical form within each of these Rites (although the Armenian Rite has no recensions).

Deacon Ed
 
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