Pope calls for agreement on a single date for Christians to celebrate Easter [AN]

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The Italian press is reporting a statement by the Pope in which he says that he is in agreement with a review of the dating of Easter aimed at allowing all christians to celebrate Easter on the same day.
 
This would be awesome if true. Do you have a link to where it’s being reported?
 
How can the Julian and Gregorian calendars be reconciled to accomplish this?
 
tryphon said:
The Italian press is reporting a statement by the Pope in which he says that he is in agreement with a review of the dating of Easter aimed at allowing all christians to celebrate Easter on the same day.
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Link. please?

I’m not sure it’s a good idea. There are going to be some people who refuse to accept the change and will go on following the present-day formula, in force since the Council of Nicea. More little breakaway groups and small-scale schisms.
 
tryphon said:
The Italian press is reporting a statement by the Pope in which he says that he is in agreement with a review of the dating of Easter aimed at allowing all christians to celebrate Easter on the same day.
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So, does this mean he will agree with the way the E. Orthodox determine the date for Easter?
 
BartholomewB said:
Link. please?

I’m not sure it’s a good idea. There are going to be some people who refuse to accept the change and will go on following the present-day formula, in force since the Council of Nicea. More little breakaway groups and small-scale schisms.
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I don’t know how he would get the Protestants to go along with it either. It could turn into a big pain in the rear for American Catholics as the date will most likely stay the same as far as schools and businesses are concerned. Of course, that would make it easier to run out and get more butter if you run out.
 
Allegra said:
I don’t know how he would get the Protestants to go along with it either. It could turn into a big pain in the rear for American Catholics as the date will most likely stay the same as far as schools and businesses are concerned. Of course, that would make it easier to run out and get more butter if you run out.
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I remember an earlier pope – I think it was St JP2 – saying the Church would have no objection to switching to a fixed Easter (for example, the second Sunday in April, or something like that).The idea, at the time, was not unification with the Orthodox Church but simply to facilitate things such as school vacations.
 
tryphon said:
The Italian press is reporting a statement by the Pope in which he says that he is in agreement with a review of the dating of Easter aimed at allowing all christians to celebrate Easter on the same day.
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You need a link to a news story.
 
Here is Google Translate’s version:

The Pope has confirmed the availability of the Catholic Church to think about the date of Easter, to arrive at a single celebration of the various Christian churches.

"I’m glad that here in the front row there are women, because women receive the Holy Spirit, the genius of women in the Church is a grace, the church is a woman, is ‘the’ church, not ‘the’ church, is married Christ, she is the mother of the holy faithful people of God. " The Pope said the priests’ retreat. “The Church is a woman - he added - the women here are image and figure of the Mother Church, expressed in a special way the collaboration, the feminist claims (answer) that Mary is much more important to the apostles.”

Two paragraphs, one of which has nothing to do with the topic.

Some quick Googling shows that the idea of a common date for Easter has similarly been mentioned under Benedict, John Paul, and even back to Paul.

What would really be news is if it was something more than “wouldn’t it be nice…”
 
SuscipeMeDomine said:
Some quick Googling shows that the idea of a common date for Easter has similarly been mentioned under Benedict, John Paul, and even back to Paul.
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Even before Paul, one of the documents of Vatican II said the Church had no objection to a reform of the whole calendar (I think the idea of a fixed calendar, with say January 1 always on a Sunday, or having the same number of days each month, etc, was floating around back then) so long as the weekly cycle of 7 days was never interrupted.
 
Those who expect a full moon around Easter Sunday may be disappointed.
 
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