Ohh can you send it here?I have a fairly lengthy essay written by a friend on the exact subject of you’re interested in a further explanation of this topic.
They break direct communion with each other until resolution is found.How can the Orthodox Church have a way to infallibly deal with any disputes that arise between Bishops or Priests?
He most certainly would, and he attends Divine Liturgies semi-regularly himeself.On a tangent, I would be curious if your friend would allow his fellow Eastern Rite Catholics to live and believe according to their Eastern patrimony or if they must believe according to the Latin patrimony.
My apologies. Although I would note I am not assuming he has uncharitable motives. I have, however, observed Catholics from Eastern Rite churches told by Latin Catholics on this board that while they can have their Divine Liturgy, they had better believe according to the Latin mindset…in other words the could be Eastern on the outside, but darn well better be Latin on the inside.You speak about being charitable, but I don’t believe it is charitable to presume that one has uncharitable or selfish ulterior motives.
This process is an innovation they use to deny the reunion Councils and some of the subsequent pan-Orthodox Councils the neo-Palamites don’t like anymore. The early ecumenical Councils were not received by all the Churches–it’s why there are still Nestorian and non-Chalcedonian Churches to this day. Rather, the Churches that didn’t accept the decisions of those Councils were anathemitized and cut off from the body.Don’t they believe something is infallible only if there is an Ecumenical Council and then on top of that the “faithful” have to approve of it?
This. It was stated that Easterners must believe and profess the Latin expression of such things as purgatory or the immaculate conception, for example. While there’s nothing really objectionable in these, the western expression just doesn’t make sense to the East.or is this referring to Easterners believing believing so-called “Latin Dogmas.”?
It has to be a definitive/irreformable judgment for the whole Church (just like with the infallibility of an ecumenical council). The death penalty thing is by its very nature reformable, since it is explicitly intended as an application to changing circumstances–in fact, it is explicitly put forth as a reform of a prior reformable judgment intending to apply the same principles to factual circumstances. The pastors of the Church were never promised omniscience with regard to factual circumstances or perfect pastoral wisdom.Even if the pope’s statements are unorthodox, how does one correctly apply Vatican 1’s criteria for papal infallibility and determine if pope Francis’s statements are infallible or not?
(whole thing here)… because the true confession thereof for which Peter was pronounced blessed by the Lord of all things, was revealed by the Father of heaven, for he received from the Redeemer of all himself, by three commendations, the duty of feeding the spiritual sheep of the Church; under whose protecting shield, this Apostolic Church of his has never turned away from the path of truth in any direction of error, whose authority, as that of the Prince of all the Apostles, the whole Catholic Church, and the Ecumenical Synods have faithfully embraced, and followed in all things; and all the venerable Fathers have embraced its Apostolic doctrine, through which they as the most approved luminaries of the Church of Christ have shone; and the holy orthodox doctors have venerated and followed it, while the heretics have pursued it with false criminations and with derogatory hatred;[…]which, it will be proved, by the grace of Almighty God, has never erred from the path of the apostolic tradition, nor has she been depraved by yielding to heretical innovations, but from the beginning she has received the Christian faith from her founders, the princes of the Apostles of Christ, and remains undefiled unto the end, according to the divine promise of the Lord and Saviour himself, which he uttered in the holy Gospels to the prince of his disciples: saying, Peter, Peter, behold, Satan has desired to have you, that he might sift you as wheat; but I have prayed for you, that (your) faith fail not. And when you are converted, strengthen your brethren.