I don’t know whether everyone is, in fact, agreed that JPII was thinking about doing so. I’m willing to take your word for it, however, because I don’t see any reason that he couldn’t have … it’s just that I’m not sure that Knanayas would even want it, in view of the necessary changes in the policies about who can be in the Knanaya church.I wouldn’t say completely parallels because there’s a whole list of separate traditions and customs that the Knanaya celebrate and the Thomas Christians don’t but yes Aramis you make a very valid point. I guess you could say within the Syro Malabar Church, Knanaya Endogamy is administered, without the Syro Malabar Church it takes things out of proportion. **One thing that confuses me though, is that many of you say it is not possible for a Knanaya Sui Juris yet John Paul II Mar Papa was ready to create one?
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I’m reasonably certain that if his Holiness had separated them from the SMCC, he’d have ended endogamy at the same time, by decree.I wouldn’t say completely parallels because there’s a whole list of separate traditions and customs that the Knanaya celebrate and the Thomas Christians don’t but yes Aramis you make a very valid point. I guess you could say within the Syro Malabar Church, Knanaya Endogamy is administered, without the Syro Malabar Church it takes things out of proportion. One thing that confuses me though, is that many of you say it is not possible for a Knanaya Sui Juris yet John Paul II Mar Papa was ready to create one?
Also please anyone who reads this thread or any thread where I have written that Knanayas long for a Sui Juris of there own, please understand we are not a separatist community. Knanayas revere and honor their mother churches like no other, for me the Syro Malabar Church and for the Knanaya Jacobites the Syriac Orthodox Church. The idea of a separate Sui Juris is just an idea that seems hopeful to the Knanayas it is not one that is fueled for by hate of the Syro Malabar Church/etc. I and I think I can speak for the rest of the community when I say this but we all have a high level of respect for the Syro Malabar Church, because without them there would be no Kottayam Diocese.
I think perhaps you mis-read my post Aramis? I said:I’m reasonably certain that if his Holiness had separated them from the SMCC, he’d have ended endogamy at the same time, by decree.
And everything you’ve said makes it come across as a racist, separatist community. If it isn’t, you’ve not been doing the community any favors, Thomas…