Why are you quoting form the CCC? I was referring to the Eastern Churches which make no such claim, and do not follow the CCC.
Your issues are with the Latin Church. I don't know the Latin Church. I am not Catholic, I was baptized Orthodox as an infant and reverently practiced Orthodox Christianity until a few years ago and a such am qualified to comment on Orthodox practice.
You asked me a question and I answered it from the Eastern Orthodox point of view, which I hold to be the only catholic view.
For your information, the two Churches are not in communion.
Forgive me if I sometimes get confused between "Catholic" and "Catholic".
I am aware you frequently speak from the perspective of the Orthodox but you also slip into "Catholic speak".
Perhaps a disclaimer would help poor old fools such as me understand where you are coming from at a particular time.
FWIW I believe the Orthodox Churches have remained much more faithful to the practices of the relatively old Christian practices than that of the Latin variety. That said, I also believe they would be unrecognizeable to the "early" Christian Church.