i agree that this is largely irrelevant and it something most people don’t have to worry about. i also am canonically latin and i in fact do attend a byzantine rite church, and no one cares. there is no real reason for me to bother anyone with canonical paperwork because it does not affect me in any way in practice and there is no clearly foreseeable reason that it ever should. [are there any canons saying i can’t be given a byzantine burial? that WOULD be a reason!]
Careful about making assumptions. Remember what they say when we assume?
And what is the point in posting this? It has nothing to do with this topic whatsoever. Are you just trying to stir the pot? http://forums.catholic-questions.org/images/icons/icon13.gif
I dare say this could be classified as a drive-by posting. http://forums.catholic-questions.org/images/icons/icon13.gif
No more than you were trying to stir the pot in telling someone entering the Catholic Church how you left it. I was making mention of the fact that it isn’t necessarily analagous - when my friend in college and I decided to enter into Orthodoxy, the OCA priest I approached said simple chrismation would do, I was just to get my records… The ROCOR priest he went through didn’t bother, he baptized him anew with no reference to his baptism as a Catholic.
Peter,
Nice try, but I don’t buy it.
There is no “try” there just is. Buy what you like. Although you didn’t really ask anything, more or less just observed, I offered a counter observation, it is what it is, that is that.
Spend enough time critiquing any one person, I suppose something objectionable can always be found.
Thank you.
I am sorry you misunderstood my post and my intentions (again). I was pointing out the fact that the church the OP was baptized in would have records of it, and she would most likely be able to call to obtain said records. Whether Church A accepts the baptism of Church B is only an issue because you have chosen to make it one.
I am sorry you misunderstood my post again… But for the record now I understand that you were just using your situation of leaving the Catholic Church to show how records can be found. Very good then. Now it will only remain an issue if you so choose.
Anytime bro!
Anytime bro!
When an Orthodox Christian becomes Catholic (makes a profession of Faith) they are enrolled in its Catholic counterpart. NOT the LATIN Church. The only way you can become Latin (Roman) Catholic is by election, at the time of your wedding, or by petition.
to add on
My Greek Catholic pastor has chrismated quite a few Protestants, bringing them into the Church via the East. It’s against Roman Canon Law, but neither Protestants nor Eastern Catholics are bound by Roman Canon Law (so the only practical effect of that canon is that Eastern Orthodox do not become Roman Rite simply by profession of Catholicism). I don’t know what the Code of Canons of the Eastern Churches says, but if it forbids it then I’m going to quietly forget to tell my pastor that.
Anyone can worship and participate fully in any Catholic church of any rite. It’s an issue though because Eastern Catholics are subject to a much more stringent discipline than Roman Catholics are (much higher standards of fasting, many more fast days, many more holy days of obligation). If someone is received into the Church as an Eastern Catholic, he would have commited a mortal sin by eating an egg or drinking a glass of milk on the monday before your “Ash Wednesday” this year, which wouldn’t have been a sin at all as a Roman Catholic.
I can assure you, he already knows. Eastern Catholic priests (and bishops) fly under the radar much of the time. But my guess is he actually does the formalities and gets permission from the local Latin bishop routinely, perhaps by fax or phone call.… but if it forbids it then I’m going to quietly forget to tell my pastor that.
Correct…and if Cecilianus’ pastor is receiving them without the proper permissions, that does NOT make them Eastern Catholics…they would still be Roman Catholics just received in an Eastern church, just as if an Eastern Catholic priest baptizes the baby of a Roman Catholic couple…the baby is still a Roman Catholic.
