[verga]

So what? 22 or an alleged 35,000. The fact that there's more than one Catholic rite negates any claim Catholicism has of unity and invalidates any complaint or criti8cism SIC of Protestantism of not being valid because of alleged lack of unity.

Do you understand the difference between a "Rite" and a denomination?

[metmom]

Do you understand the difference between a "Rite" and a denomination?

Yes.

Because some of the differences between what are counted as different denominations are of less significance than those separating Catholic *rites*. It's a name game on the part of Catholicism to foster the pretense of unity.

[NKP_Vet]

Or is that a million “rites”, how about NONE that protestants have. Ask Jimmy Swaggart about rites and see what his answer will be. I needed a good laugh this morning. The majority of protestants go to church, sit in a pew, don’t open their mouth to recite any type of scripture, sit there and listen to a hell and brimstone preacher (most with no credentials at all) tell them they are going to hell if they don’t change their ways.

For anyone that believes that type of nonsense in a church constitutes worshiping the Lord I have some good ocean front property to sell you in Arizona.

And don’t reply back and tell me I don’t know what I’m talking about. I was a baptist, then pentecostal for 58 years.