Passive Participation in non-Catholic worship

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I know that the Church has traditionally taught that passive participation in non-Catholic worship for a good reason may be permissible, but can anyone point me to an authoratative document (issuing from the Magesterium) to that effect? Thanks.
 
tac said:
I know that the Church has traditionally taught that passive participation in non-Catholic worship for a good reason may be permissible, but can anyone point me to an authoratative document (issuing from the Magesterium) to that effect? Thanks.
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Well you could start with the Document on Ecumenism from Vatican II and then the the Ecumenical Directory.
 
Br.Rich_SFO said:
Well you could start with the Document on Ecumenism from Vatican II and then the the Ecumenical Directory.
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Br. Rich SFO,

Do you know any documents before Vatican II that support passive participation in non-Catholic worship?
 
highlander said:
Br. Rich SFO,

Do you know any documents before Vatican II that support passive participation in non-Catholic worship?
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I’m not sure but think that you could find something in the old Canon Law about a Laypersons participation in non-Catholic worship services.
 
Br.Rich_SFO said:
I’m not sure but think that you could find something in the old Canon Law about a Laypersons participation in non-Catholic worship services.
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If not in Canon Law, at least the understanding was known by most Catholics. We attended weddings and funerals of our Protestant friends when held in their churches. And, yes, there were times that “I’ll go to your service if you come to Mass with me”. Just don’t think that their service can be substituted for the Mass.

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Kotton said:
If not in Canon Law, at least the understanding was known by most Catholics. We attended weddings and funerals of our Protestant friends when held in their churches. And, yes, there were times that “I’ll go to your service if you come to Mass with me”. Just don’t think that their service can be substituted for the Mass.

Kotton
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But what about this quote from Pius XI’s Mortalium Animos (with emphasis added):
  1. So, Venerable Brethren, it is clear why this Apostolic See has never allowed its subjects to take part in the assemblies of non-Catholics: for the union of Christians can only be promoted by promoting the return to the one true Church of Christ of those who are separated from it, for in the past they have unhappily left it. To the one true Church of Christ, we say, which is visible to all, and which is to remain, according to the will of its Author, exactly the same as He instituted it. During the lapse of centuries, the mystical Spouse of Christ has never been contaminated, nor can she ever in the future be contaminated, as Cyprian bears witness: “The Bride of Christ cannot be made false to her Spouse: she is incorrupt and modest. She knows but one dwelling, she guards the sanctity of the nuptial chamber chastely and modestly.”[20] The same holy Martyr with good reason marveled exceedingly that anyone could believe that “this unity in the Church which arises from a divine foundation, and which is knit together by heavenly sacraments, could be rent and torn asunder by the force of contrary wills.”[21] For since the mystical body of Christ, in the same manner as His physical body, is one,[22] compacted and fitly joined together,[23] it were foolish and out of place to say that the mystical body is made up of members which are disunited and scattered abroad: whosoever therefore is not united with the body is no member of it, neither is he in communion with Christ its head.[24]
And the website is: vatican.va/holy_father/pius_xi/encyclicals/documents/hf_p-xi_enc_19280106_mortalium-animos_en.html
 
highlander said:
But what about this quote from Pius XI’s Mortalium Animos (with emphasis added):
  1. So, Venerable Brethren, it is clear why this Apostolic See has never allowed its subjects to take part in the assemblies of non-Catholics: for the union of Christians can only be promoted by promoting the return to the one true Church of Christ of those who are separated from it, for in the past they have unhappily left it.
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So what makes Pius XI’s Apostolic See better than any other Apostolic See? Not trying to be a smartalec but he does say “**this **Apostolic See”

Most Protestants of Pius XI’s day, and ours, **never left **the One True Church or Christ, as Pius XI states, because they were never in it. Just because something is written in an encyclical does that make it dogmatic? Can doctrine surrounding ecumenism not be developed in time?
 
sruyle said:
So what makes Pius XI’s Apostolic See better than any other Apostolic See? Not trying to be a smartalec but he does say “**this **Apostolic See”

Most Protestants of Pius XI’s day, and ours, **never left **the One True Church or Christ, as Pius XI states, because they were never in it. Just because something is written in an encyclical does that make it dogmatic? Can doctrine surrounding ecumenism not be developed in time?
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Each Pope speaks for his papacy and the Church at that time. Just because something is written in an encyclical makes it the thought of the Church or even Church teaching, but not necessarly an infallible unchanging Doctrine.
 
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