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Nestor_kea
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When I have learnt that there are Malabar nuncios to Japan (catholic-hierarchy.org/bishop/bchennoth.html) and probably to Ethiopia + Somalia + Djibouti (catholic-hierarchy.org/bishop/bpanik.html), I have realised that it could be useful for ECC to be seen. Many Catholics are not aware of them, even here we can see question like “are those heretics Christians?” Maybe there are excellent bishops within “their” churches, excellent patriarchs leading “their” churches, or prefect of “their” congregation, but all of this are foreign people in foreign communities who can leave the rest of the Church unaware because it is still something far, far away. Cardinals may help but they are seen only as curiosity when entering conclave or when being created.
I mean “to be seen” means to have people on some a-Eastern posts. Someone said that woman as minister of education means nothing but women as finance, defence, or prime minister means much. Armenian ex-patriarch was “Red Pope” – prefect of the Congregation for evangelization of the peoples and was rumoured to be papabile. (Wiki: During the papal conclave of 1958 following the death of Pius XII, Agagianian received a large number of votes, eventually approaching the majority needed for election. This was confirmed by the elected pope himself, Pope John XXIII.) Nuncio is in many countries the one who is seen and known at least passively. And if there is nuncio who is for five years permanently being seen in “strange” dress and who informs about his home church, I think it could bring something.
I would like to state one example of another kind:
Slovakia (Central Europe) is country with 62 % Roman and 4 % Greek Catholics and 12 + 4 bishops in active service and population is quite good aware of GCC even in non-mixed areas. But one man from Slovakia (I don’t know if he is Slovak or Rusin or something else) – vladyka Cyril Vasiľ SJ is secretary of one Vatican congregation and he is superb preacher and speaker. I think his homilies are of best ones I have ever heard and it is pity they are not widely translated. And so he is invited for many occasions and so he is seen by the most of active religious population. Even when he is the main celebrant of Roman mass (e. g. on feast of patron saint of the country), he wears Byzantine garments and so no one can be confused and everyone sees he is a Byzantine. So, very good propagation.
What do you think about the effective and real ways of propagation of Eastern Catholicism among Western Christians?
Sometimes there is information that Malabar and some Greek Catholics have enough priests who could be possibly the source for “propagators” in the Western world on different posts.
I mean “to be seen” means to have people on some a-Eastern posts. Someone said that woman as minister of education means nothing but women as finance, defence, or prime minister means much. Armenian ex-patriarch was “Red Pope” – prefect of the Congregation for evangelization of the peoples and was rumoured to be papabile. (Wiki: During the papal conclave of 1958 following the death of Pius XII, Agagianian received a large number of votes, eventually approaching the majority needed for election. This was confirmed by the elected pope himself, Pope John XXIII.) Nuncio is in many countries the one who is seen and known at least passively. And if there is nuncio who is for five years permanently being seen in “strange” dress and who informs about his home church, I think it could bring something.
I would like to state one example of another kind:
Slovakia (Central Europe) is country with 62 % Roman and 4 % Greek Catholics and 12 + 4 bishops in active service and population is quite good aware of GCC even in non-mixed areas. But one man from Slovakia (I don’t know if he is Slovak or Rusin or something else) – vladyka Cyril Vasiľ SJ is secretary of one Vatican congregation and he is superb preacher and speaker. I think his homilies are of best ones I have ever heard and it is pity they are not widely translated. And so he is invited for many occasions and so he is seen by the most of active religious population. Even when he is the main celebrant of Roman mass (e. g. on feast of patron saint of the country), he wears Byzantine garments and so no one can be confused and everyone sees he is a Byzantine. So, very good propagation.
What do you think about the effective and real ways of propagation of Eastern Catholicism among Western Christians?
Sometimes there is information that Malabar and some Greek Catholics have enough priests who could be possibly the source for “propagators” in the Western world on different posts.