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The idea is this. In any type of situation where the Catholic Church is considering some form of restriction on the Eastern Catholic churches, those Eastern Catholic churches shall have the ability to nix it. In other words, the Latin rite would need to have their approval and consent in order to do or change anything that affects them in certain ways, and the Eastern Catholic churches would have veto power and only allow changes that they want to allow.
Is the Catholic Church ready for this idea? And is it an idea that the Catholic Church will ever be ready for?
This is the main reason why I think it would be a good idea in the long term. The whole point of having the Eastern rites is so that you can have them, and so they don’t go anywhere. So instead of making unilateral decisions that affect them while they also have no control over them, and then waiting around for a few decades to see if they’ll eventually accept it or if a bunch of people will leave, and then waiting around another half-century while people make formal appeals for a reversal of the earlier decision and then essentially wait to see what decisions someone else will make on their behalf- instead of all that, how about the Roman bishops talk to the Eastern bishops and GET PERMISSION FIRST. Once they get permission, and only if they get permission, then they can go ahead and do whatever it is that both parties agree is ok.
It makes sense to me, and it seems like something that should be done. But it’s not, and there must be some kind of reason for that. I know it probably won’t happen, but I’d like to see why that is exactly, and if this were to hypothetically happen, who is it exactly that would lose their mind over such a turn of events?
Thanks for whatever insight you can provide.
Is the Catholic Church ready for this idea? And is it an idea that the Catholic Church will ever be ready for?
This is the main reason why I think it would be a good idea in the long term. The whole point of having the Eastern rites is so that you can have them, and so they don’t go anywhere. So instead of making unilateral decisions that affect them while they also have no control over them, and then waiting around for a few decades to see if they’ll eventually accept it or if a bunch of people will leave, and then waiting around another half-century while people make formal appeals for a reversal of the earlier decision and then essentially wait to see what decisions someone else will make on their behalf- instead of all that, how about the Roman bishops talk to the Eastern bishops and GET PERMISSION FIRST. Once they get permission, and only if they get permission, then they can go ahead and do whatever it is that both parties agree is ok.
It makes sense to me, and it seems like something that should be done. But it’s not, and there must be some kind of reason for that. I know it probably won’t happen, but I’d like to see why that is exactly, and if this were to hypothetically happen, who is it exactly that would lose their mind over such a turn of events?
Thanks for whatever insight you can provide.
