The Western church of the Catholic communion, ordered by the Roman Rite and the canon law of the Latin Church, and by far its largest part.
The Latin Church is the Catholic Church of the West: one of the twenty-four churches that make up the Catholic communion, and the one to which the great majority of Catholics belong. Its rite, law, and calendar are the ones most visitors mean when they say Catholic.
Sources
Primary
- The Code of Canon Law (1983).
Secondary
- John W. O'Malley, What Happened at Vatican II (2008).