The EO do not submit to the authority of the pope, correct?
They each consider themselves to be the original Catholic church and the other to be in schism.
So who decided that the church at Rome is the One True Catholic church in the first place?
Cause they claim it and were able to muscle all the competition out of the picture?
Of course it sounds good to say that yes, they are different rites, but they are all in communion.
And yet the denomination to denominational differences that exist between various Protestant denominations are not as great as some of the ones that exist within Catholicism.
It’s ironic that when there are differences in Catholicism, it’s lauded and *We’re all in communion* see how great being one church is, and yet when it’s non-Catholic, the differences are used as a point of condemnation to prove the weakness of denominationalism and *every man his own pope*.
It’s a double standard and hypocritical.
The communion of 14 or 15 regional churches that is the Orthodox Church does not submit to the authority of the Pope.
The 23 Eastern-rite Catholic Churches that are in full communion with the Church of Rome do submit to the authority of the Pope.