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To: fatima

It’s too bad that they were given to those not in communion with Rome.

IMO they should have been given to the Mother Church of the Russias - the Ukranian “Uniates”. And IMO the Pope ought to raise them to a Patriarchate.


4 posted on 05/24/2007 2:12:47 AM PDT by Macoraba
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To: Macoraba

Too bad at at time when the occupant of the Papal Throne of Rome is a man who as Cardinal expressed the view that conversion from the Latin church to Holy Orthodoxy was not apostacy, there are ultramontanist fanatics like you, in his communion, who want to rewrite history to claim an ecclesial body created in the 16th century under political pressure when the Poles occupied the Ukraine, just shy of 600 years after the conversion of the Rus to Holy Orthodoxy, is the ‘Mother Church of the Russias’.

It was a beautiful gesture. Don’t spoil it by continuing the push the unia. Joint declarations of the Latin and Orthodox churches have accepted the Orthodox position that the unia are an impediment to the healing of the schism of 1054 (or 1009, by your leave—I date it to the dropping of Rome from the Diptychs of the Great Church of Constantinople in response to the addition of the filoque to the Creed).


13 posted on 05/24/2007 5:37:51 PM PDT by The_Reader_David (And when they behead your own people in the wars which are to come, then you will know. . .)
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