Posted on 04/06/2016 2:56:43 PM PDT by NRx
Plans are for Roman Catholic church head Pope Francis, Ecumenical Patriarch Bartolomeos and the head of the Greek Church, Archbishop of Athens and All Greece Hieronymus, together to visit refugees on the Greek island of Lesbos.
This emerged after a meeting on April 5 of the Holy Synod, the governing body of the Church of Greece, over which Hieronymus presided.
Hieronymus told the Synod that Pope Francis had expressed a desire to visit Greece, to build awareness among the international community of the need for an immediate cessation of hostilities in the wider Mediterranean area and in the Middle East that were strongly affecting Christian communities, but also had led to a major humanitarian crisis for desperate refugees seeking a better future in Europe.
A Greek Church statement said that the Holy Synod had accepted the proposal for the Pope to visit an Aegean island because it would be a one-day, non-protocol and “clear humanitarian and symbolic visit”.
The Holy Synod decided to propose a visit to Lesbos, which it described as one of the many islands that had deeply experienced and still experienced the tragedy of the refugee problem.
It noted that this was at a time that Greece, in spite of major problems, was bearing on its shoulders the brunt of refugee flows.
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DMFers. They should go hang with the islamo trash to get them to recycle instead of dumping filth on innocent nations ...
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kdBYiie8UCc
I wish the pope cared about his own people. The ancient popes who started the Crusades were some of history’s greatest heroes.
Why don’t they speak to the Greek people who are under assault.
Why doesn’t the chicken visit Yemen and demand the release of Fr. Thomas Uzhunnalil?
Or Pakistan, and demand the release of Asia Bibi?
Both held by godless Islamists.
Pathetic papal pandering to pagan perverts.
I am so proud of my Greek cousins that they, even though in dire straits themselves, find a way to help people fleeing war...just like when the Syrians took in Greeks and Armenians when the genocidal Turkish dogs went after them in the 1920s! This is philotomo! This is Eastern Christianity at it’s finest!
Yes, says Diego Neria Lejarraga, a transgender man who says he had a private audience with the Pope in late January, reportedly a first for the pontiff. Neria was born as a girl in Spain and raised as a devout Catholic. But after his sex change operation eight years ago, many people scorned him in church in his hometown of Plasencia in western Spain. Neria recalls heated discussions with a parish priest and some others in town. Afterward, he started staying away from Mass.
My cousins know exactly what they are doing They have been dealing with Mohammedanism since long before anyone had ever heard of the USA...or Protestantism for that matter.
A bunch of Christian guys wearing dresses are going Lesbos, the island named for the first lesbians in recorded history, to comfort a bunch of Moham-madman thugs who will not fight for their own freedom. What could possibly go wrong?
P.S. Has Francis changed the spelling of his name to Frances yet?
My Catholic cousins have dealt with the devilish muslims long before your cousins decided to split with Rome.
“My Catholic cousins have dealt with the devilish muslims long before your cousins decided to split with Rome.”
Sorry; we Easterners, all Catholics, beat you there too. Of course, by 1453 some of you Latin guys allied themselves with the Mohammedan Turks at the Fall of The City.
My Catholic cousins have dealt with the devilish muslims long before your cousins decided to split with Rome.
As your cousins were allied with Stalin and are currently allied with the murderer, Putin?
If you claim your "Catholics", how do you explain up to three marriages, with no deceased spouses? You guys are precedents to Luther's protestants.
Now I know there are those pictures of Latin Cardinals and bishops with the Nazis. Where could they be? Oh, right here:
There are plenty more if you want to go down that road, et. We could also compare how many Latin priests and hierarchs were martyred by the Nazis and their fellow travelers with the number of Orthodox priests and hierarchs martyred by the communists.
What a pathetic state religion.
Second request:
Why does you religion allow divorce and remarriage?
Can you quote the Bible on that?
I’m sorry. I saw you answered my question in your post #16. However, I don’t think anything supercedes Christ’s very Words: “Therefore what God has joined together, let no one separate.”
In the Gospels, Christ says that if someone is divorced for any reason other than infidelity, and they remarry, they commit adultery and cause their former spouse to commit adultery (Matthew 5:31-32). St. Paul adds another reason for divorce – abandonment (1 Corinthians 7:10-15). All of the reasons for the Church granting a divorce with a blessing to remarry are extrapolations from these two exceptions. For example, if a woman has a husband who is a drunk, beats her, and does not support the family, this is considered a form of abandonment. Nevertheless, divorce is always a last option, a bad option (though in some cases the least bad option) and one best avoided if at all possible.
The Orthodox practice of allowing 2nd and 3rd remarriages as a concession are laid out in the Canons of St. Basil the Great (canons 50 and 77 in particular). Further the 6th Ecumenical Council confirmed the practice (see Canon II) of St. Basil’s canons as the normative discipline of the Church. This was further confirmed in the canons of the Quinisext Council (Trullo).
The 7th, 8th and 9th Ecumenical Councils confirmed all of the Holy Canons of the earlier councils.
So to answer your question, yes, it is tolerated as part of the authoritative canons promulgated by the Ecumenical Councils in conformity with Scripture and recognized by the Orthodox Church.
The question then becomes, why does Rome refuse to accept the crystal clear exception laid out in Scripture which permit divorce?
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