De-Latinization of Eastern Catholicism
This is good news: Catechism will help Ukrainian Catholics recover identity, bishop says.

I am thouroughly Western and cannot see myself as a member of anything but the Latin Rite, but I appreciate the Eastern Rites and recognize their indispensibility in the Universal Church.

This description of the current state of affairs in Eastern Catholicism comes from The Other Catholics: A Short Guide to the Eastern Catholic Churches, linked to by Open Book and picked up by A conservative blog for peace:

Today, many Orthodox are fearful of losing their distinct traditions in a world dominated by the Latin Church. Making matters worse, some of the Eastern Catholic Churches have adopted Latin customs and haven't been very good examples of how union with Rome should work. This is tragic, since the traditions of these Churches are themselves apostolic and help preserve the catholicity of the Church with their own unique development of the gospel message. For example, unlike a good Latin parish, in a traditional Eastern Catholic parish you won’t find musical instruments, statues, rosaries, or stations of the cross. Indeed, the priest may well have a wife and children, and the church might be without pews or kneelers. In some circumstances, even the Bible might have a larger canon and include Third and Fourth Maccabees. Unity does not mean uniformity.

Here's one tantalizing tidbit: the article from which the above quote comes states that the Patriarchal Chaldean Catholic Church (of present-day Iraq) might have been the first to send Catholic missionaries to this peninsula:

The Church was a very active missionary force and expanded into India, Tibet, China, Mongolia, and perhaps even Korea and the Philippines.