Eastern Catholic/Eastern Orthodox

[recentrevert]

Don’t forget Catholics.

You are leading Catholics into error and would no doubt pretend this is humility.

 

[coptsoldier]

This whole line of thought is bizarre and against the spirit of ecumenical dialogue between orthodoxy and Catholicism. To answer the OP question, you are most welcome to visit and attend an Orthodox Church. Considering the last 3 popes have all attended Divine Liturgies in orthodox churches, I don’t know what gave them the idea that going to an Orthodox Church is wrong.

To chuck another spanner in the works, no eastern Catholic clergymen I have ever met believes converting to orthodoxy is mortal sin, and I would ask you to prove from Catholic sources of the last 50 years that this is the case. Of course communion with St. Peter is important, but Rome is one of 5 ancient patriarchates. The schism is not simply big bad orthodox and defenders of the faith Catholics. It’s ugly and messy, with both orthodox and Catholic being in the wrong.

The balamand declaration, on the vaticans website if you would like to have a look, has pretty much put to death the idea of uniatism, thank God. Rome desires ENTIRE communion with us orthodox, not partial.

 

[coptsoldier]

Also the orthodox cannot be heretical, for if they were they would not have valid sacraments, for heresy separates oneself from not only the One Holy Catholic Apostolic Church on earth, but in heaven also.

 

[Peter_J]

The balamand declaration, on the vaticans website if you would like to have a look, has pretty much put to death the idea of uniatism, thank God.

Indeed, the title “Uniatism, method of union of the past, and the present search for full communion” makes its authors’ intentions pretty clear.

 

[Augustine]

The balamand declaration, on the vaticans website if you would like to have a look, has pretty much put to death the idea of uniatism, thank God. Rome desires ENTIRE communion with us orthodox, not partial.

Moreover, Balamand referred to the Catholic and Eastern Orthodox Churches as “sister churches”. The profound implications of such a statement should put to death any superficial legalism or deep lack of charity towards the Orthodox Churches.

Pax Christi

 

[Vico]

Indeed, the title “Uniatism, method of union of the past, and the present search for full communion” makes its authors’ intentions pretty clear.

Signed by both Pope Francis and Russian Orthodox Patriarch Kirill of Moscow and All Russia, Feb 12, 2016:

1. God loves each of you and expects you to be His disciples and apostles. Be the light of the world so that those around you may see your good deeds and glorify your heavenly Father (cf. Mt 5:14, 16). Raise your children in the Christian faith, transmitting to them the pearl of great price that is the faith (cf. Mt 13:46) you have received from your parents and forbears. Remember that “you have been purchased at a great price” (1 Cor 6:20), at the cost of the death on the cross of the Man–God Jesus Christ.
2. Orthodox and Catholics are united not only by the shared Tradition of the Church of the first millennium, but also by the mission to preach the Gospel of Christ in the world today. This mission entails mutual respect for members of the Christian communities and excludes any form of proselytism.

We are not competitors but brothers, and this concept must guide all our mutual actions as well as those directed to the outside world. We urge Catholics and Orthodox in all countries to learn to live together in peace and love, and to be “in harmony with one another” (Rm 15:5). Consequently, it cannot be accepted that disloyal means be used to incite believers to pass from one Church to another, denying them their religious freedom and their traditions. We are called upon to put into practice the precept of the apostle Paul: “Thus I aspire to proclaim the gospel not where Christ has already been named, so that I do not build on another’s foundation” (Rm 15:20).

1. It is our hope that our meeting may also contribute to reconciliation wherever tensions exist between Greek Catholics and Orthodox. It is today clear that the past method of “uniatism”, understood as the union of one community to the other, separating it from its Church, is not the way to re–establish unity. Nonetheless, the ecclesial communities which emerged in these historical circumstances have the right to exist and to undertake all that is necessary to meet the spiritual needs of their faithful, while seeking to live in peace with their neighbours. Orthodox and Greek Catholics are in need of reconciliation and of mutually acceptable forms of co–existence.

en.radiovaticana.va/news/2016/02/12/joint_declaration_of_pope_francis_and_patriarch_kirill/1208117

 

[Vico]

Also the orthodox cannot be heretical, for if they were they would not have valid sacraments, for heresy separates oneself from not only the One Holy Catholic Apostolic Church on earth, but in heaven also.

Per Catholic understanding (dogma) the validity of the Holy Mysteries is not based upon the sanctity of their administrator, rather they are ex opere operato. It is the valid Apostolic succession that maintains the validity of the sacraments. It is possible through invincible ignorance for the faithful to be materially heretical yet not culpable.