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To: Agrarian
I looked up our local Catholic diocese, and it identifies itself on the website as "Roman Catholic." They apparently aren't offended by the term.

That is correct, for the Latin Church. The Eastern Catholic Churches fall into Eparchies. The Eparchy functions in much the same way as a RC diocese, except that it falls under a Patriarch.

91 posted on 07/10/2005 3:33:54 AM PDT by NYer ("Each person is meant to exist. Each person is God's own idea." - Pope Benedict XVI)
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To: NYer

Have there been any studies on how the married clergy works in the Eastern Rite Churches?


94 posted on 07/10/2005 4:58:45 AM PDT by ardara
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To: NYer

There have been those on this thread who say that we shouldn't use the term Roman Catholic, saying that it is a term of derision. I was merely pointing out that this is poppycock, just like I repeatedly have pointed out that the term "Uniate" is a label the Latins came up with, not the Orthodox. I think that people are just too sensitive about all of this stuff, and on un-PC FR of all places!


102 posted on 07/10/2005 6:56:17 AM PDT by Agrarian
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