RomeSweetHome wrote:Good question!
The "customs" are not always religious ones they are regional ones etc...!
No custom overrides a doctrine of the Church.
The reason the customs exsist is because all the Eastern Catholic churches (except Maronite) used to be Orthodox and so they kept there individual customs as these customs didnt conflict with church doctrine.
Peace
You side stepped my question. How many "rites" and "customs" are practiced in the catholic church?