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	Eastern Churches
		Eastern Churches depend originally on the Eastern Empire at Constantinople; they are those that either find their centre in the patriarchate of that city (since the centralization of the fourth century) or have been formed by schisms which in the first instance concerned Constantinople rather than the Western world.
		The idea of latinizing all Eastern Catholics, sometimes defended by people on our side whose zeal for uniformity is greater than their knowledge of the historical and juridical situation, is diametrically opposed to antiquity, to the Catholic system of ecclesiastical organization, and to the policy of all popes.
		In 1853 the Catholic Rumanians were given a bishop of their own Rite, and in the Allocution made on that occasion, as well as in the one to the Armenians on 2 February, 1854, he again insists on the same principle.
	www.catholicity.com /encyclopedia/e/eastern_churches.html (12195 words)

	Latin Rite
		In Latin-Rite Catholic jurisdictions, the sacrament of confirmation may, with rare exceptions, be licitly performed only by a bishop, and is usually given only to persons old enough to understand the importance of the sacrament.
		In Eastern-rite Catholic churches, that sacrament is administered by parish priests to newly baptized infants via the rite of chrismation.
		The Latin Rite is so-called because until the 1960s, Latin was used as the liturgical language in Catholic churches in "Western" countries.
	www.ebroadcast.com.au /lookup/encyclopedia/la/Latin_Rite.html (200 words)

	Eastern Rite Catholic Churches - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		The domes of an Ukrainian Catholic parish in Simpson, Pennsylvania
		The Eastern Catholic Churches are in full communion of faith and of acceptance of authority of the see of Rome, but retain their distinctive liturgical rites, laws and customs, traditional devotions and have their own theological emphases.
		Clerical celibacy is not, on the level of principle, obligatory for Eastern Catholic priests, as distinct from their bishops, but is in fact practised by many of them, particularly those who live according to monastic tradition, and is the rule in countries such as the United States and Poland.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Eastern_Catholic (3847 words)

	[CATHOLIC NEWS] The Rite Switch: why Roman rite Catholics become Eastern rite (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05)
		The Rite Switch: why Roman rite Catholics become Eastern rite National Catholic Register The words "Byzantine" and "Greek" in the past have been used to describe the Eastern Catholic Churches, which consist of 21 churches with roots in particular countries, all in full communion with the Pope.
		Eastern rite liturgies are characterized by sung liturgies, elaborate vestments, small congregations, and varied ethnic customs, reflecting the traditions of the different countries of the rite.
		He notes that in the New World, the Western Church was quick to declare its supremacy, and often Eastern Catholics were proselytized away from the rites of their birth into Roman Catholic churches.
	www.solt3.org /pipermail/catholicnews/2005-May/005025.html (1899 words)

	Latin Rite Mass
		When the Eastern rite priest, acting in the place of Christ, says this prayer, he covers the Chalice with the Veil and waves it to symbolize the descent of the Holy Spirit.
		He allowed all the rites that had been in use for over 200 years to be kept - such changes for example as we see in the Dominican rite - but otherwise ordered that the Church return to the Mass as it had always been since the earliest of recorded history.
		So sacred and holy were the rites of the Mass considered that it is almost certain that the words of Scripture were somewhat altered so as to give the sense but not the exact form used in the Consecration.
	www.wandea.org.pl /latin-rite.htm (3417 words)

	Vatican delays laws to ordain married priests
		Byzantine Catholics are among a group of Eastern rite Catholics who are under the authority of the pope but follow the liturgy and discipline of Orthodox Christianity.
		In their ancestral territories of Eastern Europe and the Middle East, Eastern Catholic men may be ordained after they are married but may not marry after they are ordained.
		And Eastern rite Catholics in the United States often argue that the bishops here have no more grounds for objection because their Western priests now include more than 100 married priests who transferred from the Episcopal Church.
	www.post-gazette.com /regionstate/19980902priests5.asp (990 words)

	Eastern Church (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05)
		Eastern Church is a general term for the various ancient Christian communions of the Middle East and Eastern Europe, of which three groups remain today.
		It is, in the first place, a mistake (encouraged by Eastern schismatics and Anglicans) to look upon these Catholic Eastern Rites as a sort of compromise between Latin and other rites, or between Catholics and schismatics.
		Eastern Church, 326); the ludicrous scandal at Monastir, in Macedonia, when they fought overa dead man's body and set the whole town ablaze because some wanted him to be buried in Greek and some in Rumanian (op.
	mb-soft.com /believe/txw/eastern.htm (12397 words)

	Our Lady Of The Sign
		Those following the Byzantine rite, in fact, enjoy a liturgical tradition established by the early Church in Constantinople, and it is this tradition that is followed by the majority of Orthodox and Eastern-rite Catholics even today.
		Unlike Roman Catholics, the Eastern faithful have retained a more visible evidence of their religious progress through the ages, reminding them that they are only the latest chapter in the story of creation.
		And while married men are still ordained in many countries and among many of the Churches, the Ukrainian Catholic Churches in Canada and the U.S. have observed a ban on ordinations of married priests that was decreed by Rome in the 1920s.
	petersen.freehomepage.com /index2.html (1048 words)

	Eastern Catholics Called "roman" Catholic - phatmass phorum
		He later was ordained a Ukranian Rite Catholic priest; he is not married, and I have heard that they don't approve a rite-switch just so you can become a married priest.
		But in another sense, the term 'Roman Catholic' annoys me. My mum is a Syrian Catholic, completely in communion with Rome, but her church has a different rite and canon law and customs and history.
		The Roman Rite is a sub-Rite of the Latin Rite of the Church.
	www.phatmass.com /phorum/index.php?showtopic=3109 (1624 words)

	BRIEF INTRO TO THE RITES OF THE CATHOLIC CHURCH (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05)
		The Holy Catholic Church, which is the Mystical Body of Christ, is made up of the faithful who are organically united in the Holy Spirit by the same Faith, the same sacraments and the same government.
		Hellenic Greek Byzantine rite Catholics, Russian Slavonic rite Catholics, Rumanian Catholics of the Byzantine rite, Ukrainian rite Catholics (who constitute the numerically largest Eastern rite), and the Arabic-speaking Melkite Greek Catholics in Palestine, Lebanon, and Syria are all the heirs of the Byzantine liturgical synthesis, renowned for the sumptuousness of its ceremonial.
		A "Rite" of the Church should be understood as marked by more than a distinctive ritual and ceremony used in worship; it also involves a particular spirituality, theology, and canonical discipline.
	credo.stormloader.com /diffrite.htm (418 words)

	Eastern Rite Catholics
		Otherwise known as Eastern Catholics, Uniates, or Greek Catholics, Eastern Rite Catholics are Christians who give allegiance to Rome but adhere to those religious customs common to Eastern Orthodoxy.
		Most of the Chicago area's Eastern Rite Catholics are Ukrainians, though Belarusians, Arab Melkites, Romanians, Lebanese Maronites, Syrians, and Assyrians also worship in the area's Eastern Rite churches.
		The Roman Catholic Church has not always embraced Eastern Christian traditions among Catholics and by the late twentieth century was pushing Eastern Catholic parishes to adopt Latin religious customs.
	www.encyclopedia.chicagohistory.org /pages/2189.html (113 words)

	CATHOLIC ENCYCLOPEDIA: Eastern Churches
		Eastern-Rite Catholics), and lastly the Catholic Eastern Rites corresponding in each case to a schismatical body.
		Gregory the Illuminator (295), was no Monophysite, but a Catholic in union with Rome.
		They accept the whole Catholic Faith and the authority of the pope as visible head of the Catholic Church, as did St. Athanasius, St. Basil, St.
	www.newadvent.org /cathen/05230a.htm (12179 words)

	Articles by Regina Doman
		The words "Byzantine" and "Greek" in the past have been used to describe the Eastern Catholic Churches, which consist of seventeen churches with roots in particular countries, all in full communion with the Pope.
		Around 70% of his congregation are former Roman rite Catholics, and he himself switched rites six years ago.
		He treasures the rite's many ancient devotions to the Virgin Mary, including the moleben service and the akathist - a sung litany of Mary's titles.
	www.reginadoman.com /articles/riteswitch.cfm (1794 words)

	Celibacy and the Priesthood
		Moreover, there is an ancient Eastern discipline of choosing bishops from the ranks of the celibate monks, so their bishops are all unmarried.
		Of course, this is different from Catholic priestly celibacy, which is not divinely ordained; yet the divine precedent still supports the legitimacy of the human institution.
		Most Catholics marry, and all Catholics are taught to venerate marriage as a holy institution—a sacrament, an action of God upon our souls; one of the holiest things we encounter in this life.
	www.catholic.com /library/Celibacy_and_the_Priesthood.asp (2270 words)

	USATODAY.com - Ukrainian Catholic move to Kiev angers Orthodox (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05)
		KIEV, Ukraine (AP) — Ukraine's Eastern Rite Catholics on Sunday moved their church headquarters to Kiev amid protests from nationalists and objections from Orthodox believers whose leaders warn the move will further stoke inter-church tensions.
		Ukraine's Eastern Rite Catholics on Sunday moved their church headquarters to Kiev amid protests from nationalists and objections from Orthodox believers whose leaders warn the move will further stoke inter-church tensions.
		Sunday's move by the Ukrainian Greek Catholic Church — also known as Eastern Rite Catholics — is certain to upset the country's dominant Orthodox Church, which has accused Roman Catholics and others of trying to poach Orthodox believers.
	www.usatoday.com /news/world/2005-08-21-ukrainechurchmove_x.htm (775 words)

	Misunderstood even by fellow Catholics
		Unlike other Byzantine Catholics, this group is headed by a patriarch who is accustomed to seeing himself as one of the equals among who the Pope of Rome (the Patriarch of the West) is agreed to be the first.
		Why are the Melkites described as "one of the most disaffected groups among the Eastern Rite Catholics." The word "disaffected" as used here is very, very strong and is better used to describe tyrants, dictators, and dissenters.
		Each patriarch, Eastern or Western, is custodian of the rites, customs and traditions of his own Particular Church and ought not to interfere with those used in other jurisdictions.
	www.melkite.org /misunder.htm (1160 words)

	THE DEGRADATION OF CATHOLIC WORSHIP: Part III (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05)
		It is interesting to observe that Eastern rite Catholics have not been hesitant in commenting on the unparalleled liturgical decadence that was to strike North America in the post-conciliar period.
		Dolinay was perhaps not aware that those pastors and priests and musicians who were determined to defend their radical innovations into Catholic liturgical life would become fixed in their own adolescent phase, from which some have yet to recover.
		Catholics of the Byzantine rite should not fall into the same trap of 'progress.' Thanks be to God we have not done what the Romans did by introducing many Protestant and Negro Spiritual Hymns that express absolutely no theological meaning...
	credo.stormloader.com /Liturgy/liturgy3.htm (1088 words)

	Catholic World News : Eastern Catholics should pursue ties with Orthodox, Pope says
		Pope John Paul has frequently encouraged the growth of the Eastern Catholic churches, and urged Byzantine Catholics to protect their distinctive spirituality and liturgy.
		Contrary to the teachings and ecumenical proclivities of Pope John Paul II which runs counter to the teachings of all previous popes up until 1965, the Easter Rite Catholics should seek to convert their Orthodox neighbors to the light of the True Faith.
		I have worshipped with Eastern rite Catholics and been more comfortable in their services than in the majority of Latin rite Masses.
	www.cwnews.com /news/viewstory.cfm?recnum=34561 (716 words)

	Ukraine's Eastern Rite Catholics Move HQ (phillyBurbs.com) \| Europe (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05)
		KIEV, Ukraine - Ukraine's Eastern Rite Catholics on Sunday moved their church headquarters to Kiev amid protests from nationalists and objections from Orthodox believers whose leaders warn the move will further stoke inter-church tensions.
		Sunday's move by the Ukrainian Greek Catholic Church - also known as Eastern Rite Catholics - is certain to upset the country's dominant Orthodox Church, which has accused Roman Catholics and others of trying to poach Orthodox believers.
		About 10 percent of Ukraine's 48 million people are Eastern Rite Catholics, who follow Orthodox ritual but bear allegiance to the pope.
	www.phillyburbs.com /pb-dyn/news/89-08212005-530673.html (748 words)

	Zenit News Agency - The World Seen From Rome (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05)
		NEW DELHI, India, MAY 30, 2003 (Zenit.org).- The Delhi Archdiocese of the Latin rite has instituted new parishes for Eastern-rite Catholics in its territory, in response to their request for greater autonomy.
		A decree published May 14 assigns six parishes to Catholics of the Syro-Malabar rite and three to those of the Syro-Malankara rite, Vatican Radio reported.
		The Christians of both rites trace their origin to the preaching of the Apostle Thomas.
	www.zenit.org /english/visualizza.phtml?sid=36423 (231 words)

	Vatican Seeks to Abandon/Destroy Eastern Catholics??? - The Byzantine Forum
		Some argue that the Vatican has little enthusiasm for the Eastern-rite Catholic Church, while others believe the Vatican does not want to annoy the Moscow Patriarchate by recognizing that other Ukrainian Orthodox, especially those of the Kiev Patriarchate jurisdiction, are a major force and should become a legitimate partner in dialogue with the Catholics.
		Other church and government representatives thought the Vatican was trying to curb the Greek Catholic Church with a conscious policy of latinization, although this was frequently confused with polonization.
		The views expressed herein are those of the participants and may or may not reflect the teachings of the Byzantine Catholic Church.
	www.byzcath.org /bboard/Forum1/HTML/000155.html (1071 words)

	Eastern Catholics on the Web
		An eparchy to an Eastern Catholic is what Roman Catholics call a diocese.
		Byzantine Catholic Mission of Montgomery County ~ Gaithersburg, Maryland
		Ukranian Catholic Cathedral of the Immaculate Conception ~ Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
	www.angelfire.com /me2/byzantinelinks/eastern.html (987 words)

	Byzantine Catholic Church in America (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05)
		Links to Byzantines and other Eastern Catholics in North America
		Links to Byzantine Catholic and other Eastern Catholic parishes on the web.
		Byzcath.org offers web hosting for Byzantine and other Eastern Christian parishes.
	www.byzcath.org (206 words)

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