Actually, NYer is a Maronite Catholic. She hears Aramaic in her liturgies, not Latin. (Of course, they have some liturgies in the vernacular, but their origin is still from Aramaic)
I bet if you took a poll, you might find a Melkite or two around here and maybe even the occasional Syro-Malabar, as well and maybe even a Chaldean or two. If you were actually interested, I would imagine that NYer could give you a fairly decent breakout (she maintains the Eastern Catholic ping list, after all)
Just because you're Catholic doesn't, 100%, mean that you are ROMAN Catholic. In this country, it's a pretty good bet, but it's hardly a 100% likelihood.
I know that there is at least one Russian Catholic (colloquially) here in the forum.
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Of course, if one really wants to nitpick, they could note that Maronites are originally based out of Lebanon, which was a part of the Byzantine Empire up until the Muslims occupied the region. The Byzantine Empire, of course, did not call itself the Byzantine Empire - it continued to call itself the Roman Empire. The “Byzantine” title was placed upon it by the West, which wished to distinguish that Empire from the Holy Roman Empire.
This is significant because, even under the rule of Islam, Middle Eastern Christians tried to retain their “Roman” identity and called themselves such. So, TECHNICALLY, Maronite Catholics are “Roman Catholics” in a very real sense.
I could be wrong on that, but it’s true if memory serves.
Sounds like there are a lot of schisms within the Catholic church. I thought God was not a God of confusion.
;-)