Your point is moot considering that the Latin archdiocese of Lvov in Ukraine overlaps that of the Ukrainian Greek Catholic Church.
What we need to be clear about is that all Catholic traditions are equal and we Eastern Christians shouldn’t be worried if we scandalize our Roman Catholic brethren by being ourselves.
The only thing barring us from having married priests and governing ourselves does is send the message to the Orthodox to stay away.
If anything is promoting the temptation to schism, it is the intolerance of the Latins. If Abp. John Ireland and the rest of the Latin hierarchy had been tolerant of legitimate diversity.
If you have a problem with our bishop’s decision. That is your problem. Don’t tell us what it means to be a Catholic.
I never said I disagree with the Bishop’s decision; I only contradicted the notion that it was none of the Bishop of Rome’s business. I actually sincerely hope that the Bishop of Rome permits the eparchy to ordain married men... so much so that I immediately wrote off taking advantage of the policy myself, because I believe as a Latin I would be a case for not approving it.
As a Latin, I’d attended many Eastern-rite masses. I chose the one that’s probably the most dissimilar of the ones I’ve attended to the Latin rite to adopt as my own, the Melkite. So I assure you, I certainly don’t want the Melkites to be more like the hyper-politicized, leftist-ingrained, Protestantized, masonically filtered Latins that are all too common.
My cause from concern from you is that you were ready for schism at the mere suggestion that the Pope MAY not permit the ordination of married men; I was not asserting that the pope should or reasonably could override the Melkite bishop. I was asserting that the pope’s interests were entirely legitimate.
You write as if you bitterly oppose the union of the two churches. That’s sad. The West needs to be re-evangelized by the East, and the East needs to be universalized, because the Christian presence in Lebanon and Syria is looking vaporous and the Melchite churches in America have relied heavily on the ability to cooperate with the West. As a case in point, the previous Melkite bishop closed the only Western seminary, to the strong dismay of Rome, and is now thoroughly dependent on non-Melkite resources for the education of its priests... or else send them to Lebanon.