There are multitudes of Catholic rites.
Such as....
http://www.mncuf.org/rites.htm
LATIN, BYZANTINE, ALEXANDRIAN, SYRIAC, ARMENIAN, MARONITE, CHALDEAN.
And then there are different churches within the rites, such as.....
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sect
Orthodox, Eastern Orthodox, Greek Orthodox, Ukrainian Catholic, Community of the Lady of All Nations, the Palmarian Catholic Church, the Philippine Independent Church, the Brazilian Catholic Apostolic Church, the Free Catholic Church, the Movement for the Restoration of the Ten Commandments of God.
And then there’s the issue of what any individual priest might be teaching his congregation. Catholics here on this forum keep accusing us former Catholics of not being catechized properly, but who’s responsibility is that to over see the teaching of church doctrine to make sure it’s correct?
So then they do have various and differing churches yet under the roof of Catholic....rather like Protestants have their various denominations and Evangelicals as well. Humm Very interesting.
What a mishmash of error. Where to begin?
Eastern Orthodox are a Catholic Sect? You might as well say “The Church of the Bold Snake Handlers” are Lutherans.
You say: “And then there are different churches within the rites, such as.....”
Your link to ‘sects”
The first sentence in this link says: “There are many groups outside the Roman Catholic Church...”
And then you don’t even copy and paste the list properly.
An honest discussion relies on an attempt to make one’s points honestly.
Nobody is disputing that, but what I was talking about were differences in Protestant THEOLOGY.
Different Catholic Rites DO NOT have different beliefs the way that say Calvinists and Arminians do.
And then there’s the issue of what any individual priest might be teaching his congregation.
This will be an issue in ANY congregation, to pretend that it is peculiar to Catholics or Protestants or Jews or anyone else would be foolish.