Getting the pope involed was the wrong thing to do; his opinion about liturgical uniformity as a means to unity is irrelevant to other jurisdictions, and the Syro-Malabar Christians should have settled this on their own, either with a compromise or with ecclesial sanction, if they couldn't get unanimity on ad orientem worship.
A person who makes recourse against an act of the Roman Pontiff to an ecumenical council or the college of bishops is to be punished with a censure. (c. 1372) - interestingly does not appear in the eastern code of #canonlaw
Fun fact: while a Latin cleric promises obedience to his ordinary and his successors, at my ordination the rite required sworn obedience not just to my local hierarch but also to the Roman Pontiff, and the teachings of the one, holy, Catholic, Roman Church. Always mindful!
to a congregation that definitely needs to be abolished.
VATICAN— Of note, today, @Pontifex has appointed @CardinalChito Tagle, current Prefect of the Congregation of Evangelisation of People, as a member of the Congregation for the Oriental Churches (which serves to support Eastern Catholic Churches).https://t.co/FUVzk4WiHq
Il prefetto della @orientchurch_va celebra la Divina Liturgia al Pontificio Collegio armeno per la commemorazione dei 106 anni del #ArmenianGenocide: "Gli armeni vittime di una sofferenza sistematicamente pianificata" https://t.co/uKdbWMDlrR
Fr. Roman didn’t care what other people said. He did things how they were supposed to be done. Crosses, cassocks, and beards were verboten then. Now, they are the norm. Photo from 1975. #FrRoman50pic.twitter.com/Cj0v0BMvuU
Fun fact in #CatholicTO history: fifty years ago today at the church where I am a Vicar Bishop Isidore Borecky ordained Fr Roman Galadza, a married man born in Ukraine but displaced by the war, to the priesthood. After the response Bishop did not ordain another married man.
Of course the papacy is the key controversy, and it is not clear to me that Trent Horn has left behind Latin theology. Applying the model of the civil government of Israel, the monarchy and the vizier (vicar), to the understanding of the Church is not straightforward if the power of the keys given to St. Peter is passed on to all of the bishops, not just the bishop of Rome. Who is the pastor of the Church? The bishop of the local church, if we accept the monoepiscopate as a fixed norm. (And it is not clear to me that it is so.) But if the Church Universal is a communion of bishops and their flocks, is there a place for a primus? A leader or a facilitator and spokesman? A leader may be a facilitator and spokesman, but one can be a facilitator and spokesman without being a leader, in the sense of having authority over those one represents as a spokesman. There is no historical evidence that St. Peter exercised primacy as it is defined by the Latin Councils of Florence, Trent, Vatican I, and Vatican II or claimed by various bishops of Rome over the past 1500 years. So if the primus episcopus is overstepping his boundaries and attempting to lord his primacy over the church, what recourse or sanctions do other bishops have? What else is there besides warning the bishop of Rome that he is in danger of cutting himself off from the communion in charity that is proper to the Church Universal? If a Latin thinks that there is no recourse whatsoever, and that other bishops must just suffer or bear it though not necessarily obeying commands the bishop of Rome has no authority to give, he still thinks like a Latin.
And Trent Horn's latest podcast: St. Peter: Pope or Nope?
Downloadable versions of the two podcasts can be found at player.fm and podbay.
And in fact, rather than a promotion, the new role given to Vasil is a
downgrade. His ambition was to return home as the major archbishop of
an unprecedented and transnational Church of the Ruthenians,
with its metropolitan see in Presov, which would bring together
Slovaks, Croats and Hungarians of the Greek-Catholic rite, plus the the
annexation of a Ukrainian diocese, that of Mukachevo, also populated by
Ruthenians, for a total of about 200 thousand faithful.
Of course, this project was hardly pleasing to the Greek Catholic
Church of Ukraine. It was counting instead on the promotion to Rome, as
the new secretary of the congregation, of one of its bishops, Teodor
Martynyuk, auxiliary of the Greek Catholic diocese of Ternopil.
But neither aim has hit the mark. Instead of the Ukrainian Martynyuk -
or at least another easterner - a Latinizing Italian has been made
secretary. While Vasil is for now only temporary administrator of a
diocese subordinate to Presov, that of Kosice, whose bishop, Milan
Chautur, is still in office, albeit under investigation by the congregation for the doctrine of the faith for allegations of sexual harassment against a minor.
