Rites

Our sui iuris Church

DECREE ON THE CATHOLIC CHURCHES OF THE EASTERN RITE

Congregazione per le Chiese Orientali - Index

Instruction for Applying the Liturgical Prescriptions of the Code of Canons of the Eastern Churches - Issued January 6, 1996 by the Congregation for the Eastern Churches.

Congregation for Eastern Churches

There is a tendency these days to avoid the term rite, with the best intention of emphasizing the proper nature of the particular / local churches of the Catholic Church.

Consider Taft ROBERT TAFT SJ ON EASTERN AND WESTERN LITURGY regarding

the recognition and acceptance of eastern Catholic communities for what they are, distinct churches," not just Indian reservations called "rites," an ecclesiology ultimately canonized by the Council documents concerning the eastern Catholic churches.

But the word rite has a valid and useful meaning: The CCEO discusses churches and rites. CCEO.htm

Churches-RITES Brochure on the Rites of the Churches of the Catholic Church. [Somewhat dated but makes the essential points.]

Our Slavonic Rite

Syro-Malankara Catholic Church: on rites of the Church

Byzantine Catholics

Catholic-Hierarchy Eastern Catholic Churches

CATHOLIC ENCYCLOPEDIA- Ruthenian Rite

Catholic Rites and Churches

Rites of the Catholic Church

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