Western Rite Orthodox

[andrewstx]

I don’t think that there is an EO position on what “uniatism” is, or why, exactly Orthodox violently despise it. A common complaint however, is that the RCC set up Eastern churches for Orthodox to come into the Catholic Church. The problem with this view is that it entirely disregards history. The reality is not that new churches were created, but that particular churches with a long and living tradition returned to communion with Rome - a communion that, in the cases of Byzantine churches, they had enjoyed for the better part of their history. The irony is that that criticism - a serious one - is precisely the problem with the WRO.

I think a great deal of this controversy is more Political in nature.

For example the Ukraine, for centuries they were passed back and forth between Catholic Germany and Orthodox Russia.

People in Ukraine were Orthodox but strongly resented Russian interference. So they became Eastern Catholics to have the best of both worlds. They resented the Germans too and did not become Latin Catholics or Lutherans.

 

[Peter_J]

For example the Ukraine, for centuries they were passed back and forth between Catholic Germany and Orthodox Russia.

Wouldn’t that be, Catholic Poland?

 

[Mickey]

What do you think of the Western Rite?

I’m not in favor.

Is it a good temporary way to allow Western Christians to adapt to Eastern Orthodoxy?

No.

do you think it should be entirely done away with?

Yes.