The difference between Roman Catholic and Maronite Catholic Church?

Question

can someone give me a basic list of differences between roman catholic church and maronite catholic church , in the following categories, history, beliefs, practices, worship and churches. I've tried looking on websites but i don't understand it.

Answer 1

There are 6 main rites and the ritual Catholic churches of the One Catholic Church. Most Lebanese are of the Maronite Rite, so perhaps you could look under it with that. I provided a link that takes you to a list of churches throughout the world, and those link provide more info with those churches.

You may be better served looking under The Antiochian Rite (Liturgy of St. James): Maronite Church; Syrian Church; and the Syro-Malankar Church. The language of these Churches is Aramaic (ancient Syriac).

The Roman Rite (The Mass of St. Gregory the Great): the Latin Church (or the "Roman Church" -- the ritual Church most Westerners think of when they think of "the Catholic Church" and whose Patriarch, the Bishop of Rome, is the Pope, who has primacy over all the particular Churches that make up the Catholic Church). THis is the largest of all the Catholic rites, I think it makes up about 90%, can't recall THAT.

The Byzantine Rite (Liturgy of St. James, St. Basil and Others): Albanian Church; Belarussian/Byelorussian Church; Bulgarian Church; Croatian (Krizevci) Church; Georgian Church; Greek Church; Hungarian Church; Italo-Greek (or Italo-Albanian) Church; Melkite Church; Romanian Church; Russian Church; Ruthenian Church; Serbian Church; Slovak Church; and the Ukrainian Church.

The Alexandrian Rite (Liturgy of St. Mark): Coptic Church; and the Ethiopian/Abyssinian Church. The languages of these Churches are Coptic (Egyptian) and Ge'ez, respectively.

The Chaldean Rite (Derived from Antiochene Rite): Chaldean Church; and the Syro-Malabarese Church. The language of these Churches is Syriac.

Armenian Rite (Greek Liturgy of St. Basil)

Each Catholic ritual church (known as a Church sui iuris) has its own Patriarch (sometimes called a "Metropolitan" or "pope" -- i.e., "papa") who is in communion with the Roman Pope, the man who holds the office of Peter. The (Roman) Pope has a triple role as Bishop of Rome, Patriarch of the West, and Supreme Pontiff of the entire Catholic Church.

Every Catholic, no matter his ritual church believes the same dogma and may receive the Sacraments of the Eucharist, Penance, and Unction from any other ritual Catholic Church; in our union through the Petrine ministry, we are all one as Christ desires.

Hope this helps!

Answer 2

maronite priests can marry - just not the monks.
During the Crusades in the 12th century, Maronites assisted the Crusaders and reaffirmed their affiliation with Catholicism in 1182. Consequently, from this point onwards, the Maronites have upheld an unbroken ecclesiastical orthodoxy and unity with Catholicism.
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instead of the pope - The head of the Maronite Church is the Maronite Patriarch of Antioch, who is elected by the bishops of the Maronite church. however When a new patriarch is elected and enthroned, he requests ecclesiastic communion from the Pope, thus maintaining the Catholic Church communion.
Patriarchs are also accorded the status of cardinals, in the rank of cardinal-bishops. They share with other Catholics the same doctrine, but Maronites retain their own liturgy and hierarchy. Strictly speaking, the Maronite church belongs to the Antiochene Tradition and is a West Syro-Antiochene Rite. Syriac is the liturgical language, instead of Latin.


in short, frm reading about them - they are similar to the orthodox catholics - maitaining a stricter sense of the liturgy and such.

thanks for asking - i enjoyed learning about them more myself~

Answer 3

They are not separate churches. The Maronite Rite is one of several rites of the Holy Catholic Church. They are all Catholics, all have the same beliefs, and are all under the authority of the Vicar of Christ, the Pope.

Answer 4

Pastor Billy says: Jack you ask interesting questions

fundamentally they are One in the same. Marionites have a long history of being fully united to and with their Latin brethren. The Marionites use the Aramaic liturgical language during worship. They are found in diaspora which means universally but primarily originate from the Middle East and the centre of Christianity in Israel, Syria, Cyprus and Lebanon. They started out as a very monastic type church in the mountains of Syria look up St Marion.
Another name you might want to investigate are the Melkites.

Damn Michelle we've got to stop running into each other. You think you can get me a deal on my Medicare? lol

Answer 5

I've never even heard of the Maronite- sorry