How many Catholic rites are there, and can a Catholic attend them, receive communion, or become a priest in them?
Robert Sungenis answers that there are roughly a dozen major rites, though he allows he may be off on the count. He holds that as long as a rite is recognised by Rome, a Catholic may attend it and receive communion and the other sacraments there, whether Coptic, Ethiopian, Assyrian or another that arose in the Middle East in the Church's first centuries.
A viewer asks how many Catholic rites exist, and whether Catholics can attend them to receive communion, become priests or bishops in them, and switch between rites.
Answer
That is a good question. I think there are about a dozen major rites, not that many, though there could be more; I may be off. Yes, as long as the rite is recognized by the Church in Rome, you can receive communion and all the sacraments there, whether it is Coptic, Ethiopian, Assyrian, or whatever, all kinds of them that cropped up in the Middle East during the first centuries of the Church. So yes to your question.