Fr Paul on the “Timisoara Incident”

Fr Paul, the English Catholic priest who has left many thoughtful comments both at Cathedra Unitatis and here at Eirenikon, has written a remarkable post over at De unione ecclesiarum on the ecclesiological, ecumenical and sacramental implications of the “Timisoara Incident”.
It is not my place to say whether it was in the event helpful to the [...]

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Romanian Orthodox-Catholic intercommunion

The Anastasis Project and Byzantine, Texas both report that Romanian Orthodox Metropolitan Nicholae (Corneanu) of Banat recently received Holy Communion from the hand of Romanian Greek-Catholic Bishop Alexandru (Mesian) of Lugoj, at the consecration of a Romanian Greek-Catholic parish in Timisoara.
Catholic World News broke the story. 
I shudder in anticipation of Orthodox responses. Doamne miluieşte.
In other Romanian [...]

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Fun with search terms

Search engines lead folks to this blog in all sorts of interesting ways. Here’s a sampling of search terms for the past week:

“not with us” “against us” -bush
orthodox david bentley hart
hilarion russian orthodox ecumenism
orthodox priests crypto catholics
orthodoxy large castle patrick reardon
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patriarch gregorios iii
new catechumen whips lax parish
quotes on the normans invasion
vatican [...]

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“A Latin’s Lamentation over Gennadios Scholarios”

The Lord Byron Foundation for Balkan Studies

“Overcoming the Schism,” Chicago, May 8-10, 1998

THE SCHISM: GROUNDS FOR DIVISION, GROUNDS FOR UNITY
“A LATIN’S LAMENTATION OVER GENNADIOS SCHOLARIOS”
Fr. Hugh Barbour, O. Praem.
In August of 1994, I was happy to be one of the many Latin clerics who over the years, in divisa or in borghese, have [...]

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Moscow: “No” to Ravenna

Josephus at Byzantine, TX has the story. This is not at all surprising. What Catholics need to understand is that this all has to do with old intra-Orthodox squabbles and major tensions within Orthodox ecclesiology. Which, I suppose, means that Orthodoxy should get on to the same ecclesiological page before adding Rome’s particular ecclesiological vision [...]

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Assyrian Unity

I have been remiss in posting about the recent act of reunion between the Assyrian Diocese of Mar Bawai Soro and the Chaldean Catholic Church in union with Rome. The Mar Bawai Soro blog, as well as the Ab Oriente Weblog (written by Anthony, a subdeacon under Mar Bawai Soro), has assembled a great deal of information [...]

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Ecclesiology 101

Here’s a very helpful summary of what the Roman Catholic Church teaches about what the Church of Jesus Christ is, and who belongs to her. From Caelum et Terra.
For an Orthodox take (but certainly not the Orthodox take), see Fr Georges Florovsky’s 1933 essay “The Limits of the Church”.

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Gregorios III to Benedict XVI

The other aspect of the ad extra mission of the Melkite Greek Catholic Church is its role in the ecumenical journey towards Christian unity.
Our Church has always been conscious of this role. The history of our Melkite Greek Catholic Church of Antioch, in full communion for close on three hundred years with the Church of [...]

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New Catechumen Whips Lax Parish into Shape

“It’s funny because it’s true!” – Homer Simpson
I’m sure our Roman Catholic brethren have similar experiences of over-enthusiastic converts …
(Via Byzantine Texas)

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More on Church Unity and Legitimate Variance

From Wei-Hsein Wan of Torn Notebook, chock full of brilliant quotes from great lights of the Church, both Eastern and Western, ancient and contemporary:
Church Unity and Legitimate Variance, Part II: Two Other Voices
For as, in the case of one and the same quantity of water, there is separated from it, not only the residue which is [...]

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