Latin rite

plural Latin rites

1. A liturgy of any Christian church, spoken in Latin.

1. The customs of the Catholic church, in general.

   In the case of children whose parents belong to different rites, if the father belongs to the Latin rite and the mother the Greek, the children must be baptized and educated in the Latin rite, for children must follow the rite of the father if he is Latin.

   1967, William W. Bassett, The Determination of Rite, page 144