Voices Grow Louder in Turkey to Convert Hagia Sophia From a Museum Back to Mosque

The Los Angeles Times ^ | 6/24/17 | Umar Farooq

[JudgemAll]

In Algier the Cathedral is a public library...

Turkey might go down worse than Algeria

[Salvation]

Are you familiar with the different rites of the Catholic Church? Perhaps this will help:

The Other Catholics: A Short Guide to the Eastern Catholic Churches
Ukrainian (Catholic) Church an example of 'synodality' for Pope
What Do You Mean You Are a "Maronite" Catholic?
Ukrainian (Catholic) Church an example of 'synodality' for Pope
Traditional Rites in Union Now with the Catholic Church
Catholic conservatives: A traditionalist avant-garde
The Rites of the Catholic Church [Catholic Caucus]
One and Many Churches (origins of the Church)
THE RITES OF THE CATHOLIC CHURCH -- There are many!
(Cardinal) Newman on Rites and Ceremonies

[little jeremiah]

Yes!

[kanawa]

Next Year in Constantinople.

[Ouchthatonehurt]

The dome has collapsed several times during its life.

[BenLurkin]

I would rather see any building destroyed than be turned into a mosque.

And no, I don’t think that makes me a bad person.

[Nicholas Sharpe]

Eastern Orthodox do not recognize the Pope, they never have. If you do not recognize the Pope you cannot be a RC.

They don’t have any sort of Apostolic Succession for leadership. All Bishops are independent and of equal authority.

Until the Great Schism of 1054 when the Bishop of Rome falsely (In the view of the Eastern Orthodox) claimed primacy they had a shared communion since that time no.

The Eastern Orthodox consider all Churches that do not follow their rites as heterodox and that includes the RC church.

From Wikipedia:
The Orthodox believe themselves to be the One Holy Catholic and Apostolic Church; that is, the true Church established by Jesus Christ and placed into the care of the apostles. As almost all other Christian groups are in indirect schism with the Orthodox Church, mostly as a result of the Great Schism with the Roman Catholic Church at the turn of the second Christian millennium (before the schisms of the Protestant Reformation), these other groups are viewed as being Christian, but who, to varying degrees, lack full theological orthodoxy and orthopraxy. As such, all groups outside of the Orthodox Church are not seen as being members of the Church proper, but rather separated brethren who have failed to retain the fullness of the Christian faith and theology. These deviations from orthodoxy have traditionally been called heresy, but due to the term’s perceived pejorative connotations, some prefer the more technical designation of the term heterodoxy.

The Haga Sophia was never a Catholic Church

At the risk of sounding more argumentative than I am using RC documents to claim that Eastern Orthodox Churches are Catholic is like Lutherans trying to claim Baptist as the same thing. You have to look at what they say about themselves. They do not consider themselves to be Catholic.

[Jolla]

How about we disagree and no one is a bad person.

[Salvation]

This chart shows many Eastern Churches as part of the Catholic Church.

[hanamizu]

The dome has collapsed several times during its life.

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I knew that it had collapsed fairly soon after it was built, but the last total failure was over 1000 years ago, which isn’t too bad considering it is in an earthquake zone.