Which Rite is Right?

[Guest Curious]

Both my parents are Ukrainian Catholics. I wasn't raised in the faith. Instead, I received the sacraments of initiation as an adult(including baptism) in the Latin Rite. I have heard that a child becomes a member of the rite of his father upon baptism, regardless of the rite that baptism took place in.

Am I a member of the Latin Rite, or the Ukrainian Rite?

Thanks.

[Cam42]

[quote name='Curious' date='Sep 29 2005, 04:59 AM']Both my parents are Ukrainian Catholics. I wasn't raised in the faith. Instead, I received the sacraments of initiation as an adult(including baptism) in the Latin Rite. I have heard that a child becomes a member of the rite of his father upon baptism, regardless of the rite that baptism took place in. 

Am I a member of the Latin Rite, or the Ukrainian Rite?

Thanks.
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The Rite doesn't really matter if you accept the Holy Father. One Rite is not above another. However, if one Rite has pride of place, it would be the Latin Rite, because it is the primatial See of the Pope.

In other words, the Latin Rite is the Rite proper to the Catholic Church in the West. (Within the Latin Rite are the Roman, Ambrosian, and Mozarbaric rites, among others.) The Byzantine Catholics (or uniates, or sui juris) are allowed as a cessation to the traditions of the people who live in those areas.

However, this cessation does not make those Catholics any less Roman Catholic. You may attend either Rite with certainty of full communion in the Catholic Church.