BlueDragon:
And I understand you can’t agree to my understanding of Primacy. I was recognizing your concerns and trying to address them and my suggestion of a change in the operationalization or Function of the Bishop of Rome with said Primacy with respect to the Catholic Church and Eastern Orthodox Church. I made no such suggestions as to the Catholic Church and Protestantism. My suggestions were in light of your own recognition that Professor Pelikan, while he went back to his Orthodox Roots, was someone who had wished the Orthodox and Catholic Church had made more progress towards reunion. Again, my suggestions were in the context of Rome and the Orthodox East.
The Anglican Ordinaries, as you mentioned were set up by Rome at the request of those Anglicans and they have been allowed to retain much of their Liturgical Heritage that developed since the 16th century from the form of the Roman Rite that was celebrated then [Sarum-Rite Liturgy]. So, Rome did not impose the Roman-Rite Liturgy on the Ordinariate, rather, it allowed them to keep their Liturgy and only make adjustments at the margins to it to ensure doctrinal consistency with the broader Catholic Church.
Again, we will not agree on this question no surprise. However, as I stated in my last few posts, my “polite” posts were in fact an attempt to dial down the heat in this thread. My last post, as this, were not written in a debate counter point fashion, but as an attempt to make a suggestion as to how Rome and the Orthodox could find reunion, which Prof. Pelikan’s Op-ed clearly was about, as you yourself admitted.
So, I am done with the debate, point, counter point posts in this thread.