Now Do... Chalcedon

Really solid thread. The “Vatican Catholic” sedevacantists lied in their video on Florence-Ferrara that the union was agreed on by every Patriarchate except that represented by St. Mark of Ephesus. They don’t even know the basics of the topic. https://t.co/nipdE5CdEi

— Brother Augustine (@BrotherAugusti2) August 23, 2022

A Lecture by Fr. Khaled Anatolios

Upcoming online seminar - The Salvific Power of the Inner Life of Christ: The Witness of the Ecumenical Councils https://t.co/sUTbxgA7Ia

— Sheptytsky Institute (@Sheptytsky) October 6, 2021

Eight Ecumenical Councils?

"If you ask virtually any Orthodox Christian how many Ecumenical Councils there were in the church, without hesitation he or she will answer that there were seven of them. Is everything really that simple in reality or.."

Read full: https://t.co/0KNJrdubRB pic.twitter.com/p1rDWWSrBT

— St Elisabeth Convent. Orthodox Life And Chants (@StElisabethConv) September 25, 2020

Vatican II Still Getting Defended

Think Vatican II is uniquely controversial?

The Council of Chalcedon was debated for centuries, a theologian told CNA, and one word used in the Council of Nicea was a source of serious scandal.https://t.co/uhuXWpDwgU

— JD Flynn (@jdflynn) August 5, 2020

CNA

I suppose we won't see an end to these any time soon.

What if...

Constance and Florence aren't ecumenical either?

Sandro Magister: The “Fake News” of Viganò and Company. Unmasked by a Cardinal

Roberto De Mattei responds.

And today:
Rorate Caeli: 150th Anniversary of the Dogmatic Constitution PASTOR ÆTERNUS (Vatican I): Petrine Primacy, Infallibility, and the Strict Limits of Papal Authority

The First Ecumenical Council

The Decisive Importance of Councils in the Life of the Church with Metropolitan Kallistos

Latin Triumphalism Lives!

In Latin traditionalists and zealous converts to traditionalism.

1P5: I Left Eastern Orthodoxy for the Church Led by Pope Francis, and I Don’t Regret It by Timothy Flanders

Another reason these attacks fail is that the Orthodox do not give their own doctrines the same scrutiny they give Catholics’. It is true that although the saints have taught the Roman primacy, it is by no means clearly expressed across the Fathers. Yet the Orthodox are willing to confess many other doctrines like Iconodulism or the homoousios while explaining away (rightly) any lack of patristic clarity on these points.

Was there unanimity across the Church Fathers as to the nature of papal primacy? No. And the author fails to note that both doctrines mentioned were accepted as doctrines not because a majority of Church Fathers held them (they did not explicitly), but because they were proposed by ecumenical councils and received as being expressions of Tradition.

The Main Definitions of the 7 Councils

Synodality and Ecumenical Councils

OrthoChristian: Contextualizing the Authority of the Ecumenical Councils: Some Thoughts on Met. Hierotheos’s Comments by Anna Stickles

What then of the incomplete work of the fourth ecumenical council?

Much Needs to Be Revisited

None of the autocephalous Orthodox churches have recognized the autocephaly of the Ukrainian Orthodox Church, except for Constantinople.

By what authority does an ecumenical council have to establish patriarchates as having a juridical status, if bishops are equal? Was this locus of authority something handed upon by the apostles, or was it established instead by human/ecclesial positive law? And if the latter, was it just? Can it be abrogated or declared null or invalid? On what basis should autocephaly be granted to a grouping of local Churches? (Or a patriarchate be established?) On the basis of nation? Or of political entities?

Watching the Outlaw King I am reminded of the disputes over authority and contests for power. How can the church be free from such struggles without humility and penance?

What would Malachi Martin say?

Sandro Magister: From Martini To Bergoglio. Toward a Vatican Council III

One "Reunion" Council and Two...

ecumenical councils? What did the decrees of Florence really say about the papacy? Something for me to look up, presumably in Denzinger.

From a comment:

I would advise those who have difficulty with Pope Francis’s teaching on the death penalty to follow the guidance of the CDF given in Donum Veritatis, 27-31. Some of Dr. Peters’ comments about the ordinary papal magisterium need clarification because they could be interpreted as challenging the universal ordinary teaching authority of the Roman Pontiff, which is affirmed by three ecumenical councils: Florence (D-H, 1307); Vatican I (D-H, 3064), and Vatican II (Lumen Gentium, 22 and 25).

Eastern Christian Books: Fr. Paul Tarazi on Scripture, Theology, and Mysticism: An Interview

Eastern Christian Books: Fr. Paul Tarazi on Scripture, Theology, and Mysticism: An Interview

Holy Fathers of the Seventh Ecumenical Council

The Seventh Ecumenical Council

Amin.

Priest of the Church: Theotokos Institute for Catholic Studies

CWR Dispatch: A canonical primer on popes and heresy by Edward N. Peters
Those engaging in loose talk about popes and heresy should be very clear about what is at issue.

(original)

For declaring a pope a heretic or deposing the pope -- under what circumstances and perspectives were the canons written? Was the perspective of the Universal Church, especially as embodied in an ecumenical council, included?

One Opinion on the Upcoming Synod

Related:

CWR: Vatican II and Eastern Orthodoxy’s Approaching Council by Dr. Adam A. J. DeVille

There are stylistic and substantial differences between the upcoming Great and Holy Council of Orthodoxy and the Second Vatican Council, but also three important similarities.