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 about this event.
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I have only recently come to this site, so please forgive me for resurecting old threads. As no one else has commented on this one, I thought I might do so.
In some ways, this particular reunion (more an absorption, really) is rather sad in that it is going to make a broader reunion between the Assyrian Church of the East and the Chaldean Church (in union with Rome) all that much harder.
Prior to his excommunication by his colleagues, Mar Barwai Soro was the best educated and most ecumenically minded of the Assyrian bishops. Now that he has crossed the Tiber (Tigris?) with his flock, the Assyrian bishops are understandably going to see him as having been a Roman mole all along. Significantly, he had received most of his higher education in Rome at Catholic institutions.
Though objectively hard done by, he is nevertheless not entirely innocent in the matter of his split with the Assyrian Church, in that he persisted in making attacks on a fellow bishop in an adultery case the rest of the synod felt it had successfully addressed.