Posted on 09/30/2016 4:39:38 PM PDT by marshmallow
They said priests who left without permission had to 'regularise their status
Chaldean Catholic bishops have said that priests and monks who left their dioceses and monasteries in Iraq without formal permission to emigrate are “raising doubts among [the] faithful”.
A statement by 20 bishops urged these priests and monks to “leave their current dioceses [abroad] immediately”.
The statement also said the Chaldean Church would proceed with the cause for canonisation of Catholics martyred in Iraq since 2003, including Archbishop Faraj Rahho, Fr Ragheed Kani, four deacons and a nun.
The bishops, meeting for their annual synod, pleaded for peace in the Middle East and for the liberation of areas seized by the Islamic State group so that the displaced could return to their homes.
Chaldeans were among the approximately 120,000 Christians who were uprooted when the Islamic State seized Mosul and the Nineveh Plain in Iraq during the summer of 2014.
In the final statement issued at the conclusion of the September 22-27 synod, the 20 bishops from Iraq, Iran, Syria, Lebanon, the United States, Canada and Australia also expressed their solidarity with Bishop Antoine Audo of Aleppo, Syria, one of the participants.
They called for officials to “stop the war in Syria and sit together in a constructive dialogue to find a peaceful political solution that preserves the country and the nation.”
They also urged clergy who had emigrated from Iraq without permission to return home. “We could accept them, on condition that one of the Chaldean bishops can accommodate them after a month or two of rehabilitation,” the statement continued. “Meanwhile, [those] priests should return to their bishops to regularise their status before commencing their pastoral mission.” They confirmed that Chaldean Fr Noel Gorgis, who had emigrated without permission, had been ordered to leave the Eparchy of St.....
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Iraq needs to rid itself of the islam menace before I would step foot in their islamic paradise.
Be sure your head is on tight.
What question do you have about this?
>What question do you have about this?
My question is will they have 24 * 7 armed guards to protect against the followers of islam that pollute the country?
IOW, follow in the great history of potential martyrs in the past.
Good summary. Tough situation. Soldiers are ordered into battle even if death is almost certain. Are priests that different? (That was a mixed rhetorical and simple question.)
Did members of the military all sign up to die? Many would say they just expected to do some kind of a job that didn’t involve dying: mechanic, programmer, doctor. On the other hand, did priests all sign up to die? That actually seems clearer than the military question, because priests sign up to be “alter Christus,” and Christ died.
Prayers for these priests.
In some of these poorer parts of the world, being ordained results in a substantial increase in ones standard of living.
But it's more than a job ...
That's an excellent point, too. The military analogy still holds, "Into the valley of death rode the six hundred," and so on.
In Mexico and other place, being ordained results in drug gangs' believing you're worth a large ransom, and then you're kidnapped and killed (at least 4 in the last two weeks) ... so it's always a dice role in terms of one's possible worldly outcomes.
Archbishop Romero of El Salvador said that if the faithful are being killed, then there's something wrong if the priests aren't being killed, too.
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