[Salvation]

Those aren’t rites — those are denominations.

Again for your information — all the rites of the Catholic Church are CATHOLIC!

[ealgeone]

Out of curiosity....do you wear the Scapular and/or Miraculous Medal>?

[aMorePerfectUnion]

Those aren’t rites — those are denominations.

Thank you for your opinion Salvation, but I have to disagree.

As a Catholic, I was not aware you were able to interpret Scripture for yourself.

Is that something new you are allowed to do now?

Or are you basing your opinion on another source outside of Scripture?

If Christian churches share their core beliefs with each other - and they do - they are all Christian. Not denominations. Rites within the universal Christian Church.

I can understand why you might think something else from afar.

Again for your information — all the rites of the Catholic Church are CATHOLIC!

Sure they are. All the rites are part of the Catholic denomination. Why do you bring this up?

[metmom]

Those aren’t rites — those are denominations. Again for your information — all the rites of the Catholic Church are CATHOLIC!

The irony.

And you Catholics call everything not Catholic *Protestant*.

So we're all *Protestant* (In your book) so the *denominational* differences are not worse than the differences between the so0called rites of Catholicism.

FWIW, there are bigger differences between Rome and the Orthodox, who have been in schism for about 1,000 years now, than there are between many, if not most, *Protestant* denominations.

But Catholics LOVE the numbers game ( an alleged 1.2 billion) strong, and yet FRoman Catholics ex-communicate each other all the time and the division seen on many caucus threads about Francis lays to rest the fabrication of *being in communion*.