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They should establish a Western Rite just to forcibly orientalize it away for historic justice.

So Polish-Ukrainians?

Filaret was and is the defining personality of the KP. To claim he was “pushed” to schism for any reason other than what was quite clearly a bitter power grab is wrong. The fruit of that vine has been shown to be no different. To the contrary, Patriarch Kirill is not the defining figure of the...

With even a cursory knowledge of Filaret’s past, how can you post this seriously?

Not very common, no, but also not particularly surprising for a decision of this magnitude. If the Standing Synod made a decision either way, there would be a lot of complaining from the metropolitans who are not currently occupying a spot, and probably defiance. Even after they meet and...

The standing Synod of the Church of Greece has deferred the decision to a common meeting of all of her metropolitans which will take place in February.

No, they just aren’t unquestioningly pro-EP. An example of a generally anti-EP publication would be Orthodoxos Typos.

To really measure the credibility of the Vatican II association, you’d have to do more work than simply look at pre and post-VII clergy. The results of the Council had to come from somewhere, after all. My guess is any such study would never measure up to both sides’ “standards.”

Of course he has. :P Not a judgment on whether he’s right in this case or not, but he reads everything as a Marxist struggle.

It’s only a description of what breaking communion means in practical terms, but done by an ignorant news source that makes it sound like more than what it is.

This thread has been a long string of strawmen. If you want to engage based on what’s written, I’m all about it, but every response has been a provocative question unrelated to the content of its respective original post.

Thus far, I think you’re the only one to have inferred such a thing.

No, that is not what I said. In cases where an elderly couple would get married (that was your question, after all), they would either be widow and widower, in which case it is definitely a concession from a Patristic standpoint, or they were never married, in which case it would be somewhat...

Despite the contemporary “aw” factor, such a thing would not likely be received very positively from a Patristic perspective save perhaps as a concession. Yeah, that kind of idea is a completely modern fabrication.

Unless you’ve never experienced an Orthodox marriage service, it’s kind of absurd to say that children are not integral to the whole thing.

A good portion of their Church in North America uses Russian music and, in older churches, liturgical furniture.

It's a long video that I don't really want to watch (Greek TV is... something), but he starts by emphasizing the Orthodox Church is the One, Holy, Catholic, and Apostolic Church, and that she has no earthly head, but is led by Christ. He says that the Church must be governed according to her...

I appreciate the spirit of the letter, but the Church has a long history—including saints—of breaking communion for non-dogmatic reasons. It would be ignorant to say this action was unprecedented. It was not an unpredictable course of events.

St. Cyril of Jerusalem's Catechetical Homilies would be a must for that kind of project, I would guess.

To sum it up briefly, I think we are acquiring an appreciation for the Tradition, which previous generations may have been ignorant of, or worse, despised. There is a renewed emphasis on the above that I listed, and there are a few factors in this, I think. One is the increased availability of...