text: "...Eastern rite Catholics."
  
  According to Vatican II document, "Orientalium Ecclesiarum" (Latin for "Eastern Catholic Churches"), Eastern Catholic communities -- all 23 of them -- are "true Churches, not just rites within the Catholic Church." They should be referred to as "Eastern Catholic Churches" (in communion with Rome) not "Eastern rite"Churches. Because they are "fully" Church, as it were, that might explain why they have different customs and traditions (priests can marry, for example), among other things, quite different from the Western/Roman/Latin Catholic Church.