Will the separated Syro-Malabarians come back to their Mother Church?

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As one of our American Eastern Catholic bishops publicly said: “We [Eastern Catholics] are the ‘ni***rs’ of the Catholic Church” and we will continue to be so until we stop acting like we are.
 
ConstantineTG said:
Interesting. Does he still celebrate in the Syro-Malabar Rite?
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I believe he used to concelebrate when he went back to India to visit his family, but I’m not sure if he still does. Several years ago already he mentioned that the liturgy had been reformed (read: delatinized) to the point that he had trouble following along…at least in his home town the Syro-Malabar liturgy had become much more authentically East Syriac.
 
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There are around 1,00,000 Syro-Malabar faithful living in and around Delhi. However, as a matter of fact, a huge chunk of them are still with the Latin Church.** The Latin Archbishop of Delhi had earlier permitted the Syro-Malabarians to join any rite i.e. Syro-Malabar or Malankara or Latin !** However the Archbishop has now asked the Syro Malabarians to go back to/stay with their mother Church (Syro Malabar Church)**. But it is highly unlikely that this huge chunk would join the Syro Malabar Church. **This brings into light the lack of vision and mission of those who are at the helm of affairs in bringing together all our people.
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The eparchy of faridabad which is going to be erected on 26 may 2012 shall be the ultimate step in an attempt to bring back all the syro malabar catholics back to their traditions.
 
We Eastern Catholics are very often the source of our own problems. As the saying goes: “If you want to play with the big boys you have to start acting like the big boys.” We will be taken seriously when we act seriously.

We profess a strong belief in the unity of the Catholic Church as a communion of equal Churches. The authority of our Holy Synods is God-given, not Roman-granted. We are co-equal Churches with the Roman Church, not subservient and irrelevant appendages to it.

I am a Melkite and as such profess that “I believe everything which Eastern Orthodoxy teaches.I am in communion with Rome as the first among the bishops, according to the limits recognized by the Holy Fathers of the East during the first millennium, before the separation.” If the dicastries of the Roman Church have voiced problems with our definition, that is unfortunate. But, that is their problem. We should not make their problems our problems. Sister Church don’t impose things on one another.

When our various holy synods refuse to lead and to act as co-equals with the Roman Church is it any wonder that the Roman dicastries then attempt to fill the leadership vacuum. I don’t blame Rome, I blame our own Church hierarchs for failing to act as responsible adults. Don’t blame Rome. After all, “Nature abhors a vacuum.”
 
The complicating factor is that not only are we in communion with Rome, we are under Rome , because the Pope is the Head of the church, and pastor with immediate and universal jurisdiction, etc… The role of the Pope as such is often assumed by others in the Latin Church. So everyone involved must admit there is a tension to be resolved there. If there weren’t, I don’t believe we would be out of communion with the Orthodox.
 
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