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There are various rites in the Catholic Church. This means primarily that there are various ways to celebrate the liturgy, though the different rites have their own set of laws and disciplines in other areas as well, such as the rules for fasting and abstinence during lent. A priest of the eastern rite is a Catholic priest who is a member of the eastern rather than the latin rite (the rite the majority of Catholics belong to).

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