Posted on 01/23/2016 6:59:24 PM PST by ebb tide
We have Copts in our parish already. Reunion with them is, for all intents and purposes, a fait accompli. As for a reunion with the Latins, we won't see it. They are fine; don't need us and heaven knows we don't need them!
The Catholic Church also took decades — if not centuries — to canonize saints in the past. They probably had a standing policy of waiting until long after a person passed away — simply to view them objectively without having people who knew them personally involved in the process.
There isn’t much that NewChurch does that resembles the pre-Vatican II Church.
Copts are divided between an Orthodox-type Church and a Coptic Catholic Church (one of our Eastern Rites); we’ve re-unified with those that would.
Still holding on to that myth that the Orthodox treat divorce any different than the Roman Catholics do with the "annulments," eh?
The only real difference is that you don't have to be as wealthy as a Kennedy to "buy" an annulment, just the consent of the Church hierarchy (done by having your priest write a letter to the appropriate Bishop).
But I know, I know. You've been told it's different somehow.
No, you don't know. Two wrongs don't make a right, whether the wrongs are Orthodox or Frankenchurch.
“Still holding on to that myth that the Orthodox treat divorce any different than the Roman Catholics do with the “annulments,” eh?”
Actually, we do. We can only have a max of 2 ecclesiastical divorces. The Latins can have, at least theoretically, unlimited annulments. I know a man who has had 3 and is getting ready to have his 4th marriage in the Latin Church.
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