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Another good question is, Will any sui iuris western churches come into existence (other than the one that already exists, i.e. the Latin Church)? Why not?? After all, you have the Mozarabic Church in Spain (although, unfortunately it is dying out) and before the Council of Trent (which did a lot of good, but some serious bad, too) there were at least eight different types of Masses in use in the West. That's certainly true, but it has nothing to do with my question. A rite is not a church. A church is not a rite -- no matter how times posters on catholic.com mention "the 22 Eastern Catholic Rites".
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Strongly Territoral Churches do not seem a good fit for our Global Village. Subsidiarity, my friend. Only strong territoriality avoids the homogenization and tyranny of mediocrity that comes from relentless globalization. Industrial scale Christianity doesn't work, so the organization must be flattened, and the distance between top and bottom minimized by restricting jurisdictional reach.
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I'd reply: Solidarity.
More and more our parishes are diverse communities. Whatever the model we have of "Church", it needs to acknowledge that.
Strong territoriality doesn't avoid homogenization (the Byzantine Churches are a testament to that) and a flattened organization has the tendency of leaving people with nowhere to go.
I believe the answer is not as simple as "red or blue".
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