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I’m getting that every person in all Nations are all His creation & are children of God. This is God’s perspective. Hopefully, our perspective, also.
A disciplinary change is precisely what the Liturgy changes were.Redesigning the liturgy of the Mass was not a “disciplinary” change, and neither were the now most (in)famous of the VC2 documents concerned with discipline.
OK call me a liar for lack of precision then .Sophie111:
But your assumption is inccorrect.Though it now seems to me the primary reason why RCC is not a different Church from the Marionite Church is simply because we share the same governing body full stop.
Like many of the other Eastern Catholic Churches, the Maronites are self governing, while acknowledging certain authority of the Bishop of Rome.
The Maronites are at one extreme on this, while the Melkites are at the other, and both are in full Communion with Rome.
Sure, if there is not full Catholic Communion then it seems legitimate to say the other Church is not fully incorporated into the “Catholic Church.” Does that mean such a Church is not a Church at all?it now seems to me the primary reason why RCC is not a different Church from the Marionite Church is simply because we similarly respect the authority of the same Leader…which defines “Catholic Communion”.