What are the different "sects" of the Catholic Church?

Question

I was raised RCC and honestly never even thought about variations of it. Are there any? What are they and what are the differences?

And I really don't want to hear about how "evil" and "wrong" the Catholics are. I am on a time frame here. I don't want to waste minutes of my life I can't get back reading them.

Answer 1

In addition to the Latin Rite (Roman) Catholic Church, the Eastern Rite Catholic Churches are in full communion with the Pope and are part of the same Universal Church.

Eastern Rite Catholic Churches include:

Alexandrian liturgical tradition
+ Coptic Catholic Church
+ Ethiopic Catholic Church

Antiochian (Antiochene or West-Syrian) liturgical tradition
+ Maronite Church
+ Syrian Catholic Church
+ Syro-Malankara Catholic Church

Armenian liturgical tradition:
+ Armenian Catholic Church

Chaldean or East Syrian liturgical tradition:
+ Chaldean Catholic Church
+ Syro-Malabar Church

Byzantine (Constantinopolitan) liturgical tradition:
+ Albanian Byzantine Catholic Church
+ Belarusian Greek Catholic Church
+ Bulgarian Greek Catholic Church
+ Byzantine Church of the Eparchy of Križevci
+ Greek Byzantine Catholic Church
+ Hungarian Greek Catholic Church
+ Italo-Albanian Catholic Church
+ Macedonian Greek Catholic Church
+ Melkite Greek Catholic Church
+ Romanian Church
+ Russian Byzantine Catholic Church
+ Ruthenian Catholic Church
+ Slovak Greek Catholic Church
+ Ukrainian Greek Catholic Church

http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/13121a.htm
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Roman_Catholic

With love in Christ.

Answer 2

Daughter, there are no sects of the Catholic Church - just Orthodox Catholics, and heretics, who try to infuse their personal fancies into the same Body of CHRIST. There are, however, seven main Catholic Rites. They are streams or branches of one Tradition, and include the following:

The Latin Rite (there is officially no such thing listed in the Vatican as "Roman Catholic"), the Byzantine Rite, the Maronite Rite, the Alexandrian Rite, the Syriac Rite, the Armenian Rite, the Maronite Rite, and the Chaldean Rite.

The Nestorian Rite of the Assyrians uses very early Catholic Liturgies, and the form of the Rite originated in within the Aramaic speaking Catholic community, and the leadership kept allegance to the former Catholic Patriarch of Constantinople, Nestorius. There is a dialogue going on between the Pope and the Nestorian Patriarch over reconciliation of this Rite into the Catholic Church. It was the local political conspirators that hijacked Nestorius' post, and drove him and those loyal to him into exile, and Rome was far removed from the whole affair in the time in which it occurred, which has caused the Popes recently to acknowledge that they may not have willingly split from the Catholic Church, which is a unique sort of a case, requiring perhaps not mere reconciliation, but acceptance of past Catholicity, albeit an exiled one.

Opus DEI is a ministry, not a sect, but part of the administration for fulfilling duties that some members of the Church must fulfill. Then there are Orders, which are but organizations of some of the general "sect" of the Catholic Church, which share a particular Vow to fulfill a particular service as Apostles, Evangelists, or Eunuchs for the Kingdom.

Answer 3

The term you are looking for is "rites", not "sects". There are several different rites of the Catholic Church, which share the same beliefs and the same sacraments, but may have different rules and disciplines, and may emphasize different aspects of spirituality. For example, in the Eastern Rites of the Catholic Church, married men can become priests. This is not a doctrinal matter, just a difference in disciplines or rules. Contrary to some of the posts above, neither Orthodox churches nor the Anglican Church are in any way Catholic. Neither is the "Old Catholic" Church someone mentioned. ALL Rites of the Catholic Church are under the authority of the Pope. Here is the list from the Catechism of the Catholic Church, section 1203:

"The liturgical traditions or rites presently in use in the Church are the Latin (principally the Roman rite, but also the rites of certain local churches, such as the Ambrosian rite, or those of certain religious orders) and the Byzantine, Alexandrian or Coptic, Syriac, Armenian, Maronite and Chaldean rites. In "faithful obedience to tradition, the sacred Council declares that Holy Mother Church holds all lawfully recognized rites to be of equal right and dignity, and that she wishes to preserve them in the future and to foster them in every way."

Answer 4

Here are the Catholic sects I found doing a little bit
>of research:
>1. Roman Catholic
>2. Spanish Catholic
>3. Orthodox – severed their ties with Rome in the 11th
>Century
>4. Byzantine Catholics
>5. Polish National Catholics
>6. Old Catholics
>7. Eastern Orthodox
>8. White Robed Benedictine Network of Catholics –
>guided by its own Bishop, follows the Vatican Council
>II
>9. Lutheranism – still considered part of Catholicism
>in some articles
>10. Universal Catholics

Answer 5

In easiest words - each and every now and then the term Roman Catholic to tell apart between Orthodox and jap ceremony Catholics. we are all Catholic and seem to the Vatican, yet there are variations in the Rites for the duration of Holy Mass. additionally, I even have got here across that some Fundamentalists prefer to call themselves "catholic" because of the fact the information certainly means "customary" and throw ambiguity on the fires of the religiously perplexed, subsequently mentioning Roman Catholic clarifies which ceremony and your relationship with the Vatican.

Answer 6

I'm not sure what you mean by sects in this context. There are Greek Catholics, who are connected with Rome but who have there own rites. In an informal way, there are liberal, conservative and moderate Catholics , who seem to have quite different views of the Church. Then there are groups such as Opus Dei, whose members have adopted a set of practices that set them apart in certain ways. Some Catholics have adopted a particular emphasis in their religion, so that one hears terms such as Franciscan and Celtic Catholicism, but basically in its various creeds, Catholicism claims to be "one" Church.

Answer 7

It may have something to do with Knightly orders, such as the Teutonics or more famously the Knights Templar. There were many knightly orders once intwined with various religous acts such as the Crusades. Many of the people leading or withing these groups were Saints.

Basically people have carried on some of the groups, but have adapted the agendas

Or do you mean Denomitations. Basically the list below lists them.

Answer 8

Yes, in a way. There are differing views in the church and there are 3 catholic churches, the Roman Church (The normal one), the Greek Church (The One with a diffrent pope), and the Anglican Church (The CHurch of England)
technicaly only the roman church is catholic but the other two are splinter groups of it, although they are large

Answer 9

I may be wrong here but I don't believe there are any sects of Catholicism. In Christianity as a whole there's Catholic and Protestant, which encompasses Baptist, Methodist, Episcopal, Lutheran, etc.

Answer 10

Roman Catholic, & Eastern Rite Catholic:
Ukrainian Catholic,
Melkite Catholic,
Greek Catholic,
Chalcedon Catholic,
Old Catholic, & that's all I can think of for now.