“That’s a new one. So much for unity in the Catholic church.
Working on that 30,000 rites, eh?”
Nope. There are 22 rites within the Catholic Church, in 2,00 years of history, thus far. And they are united. There are ~30,000 more or less distinct groups within the non-Catholic Christian groups commonly referred to as protestants, in less than 500 years. And they are not, in most senses, united. As used to be said on Sesame Street: One of these things is not like the other.
Then why not just one?
Obviously there had to be differences of some kind to explain why there's that many, and there is dispute over no small matter of doctrine in some cases and we former Catholics do know better.