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We live in a time that people are more inclined to obey an unlawful executive order than they are to follow a court order 🤦🏾♀️.
Dictators are created due to cruelty, cowardice, & compliance! IF THEIR ASSES will ignore the Supreme Court, we can definitely IGNORE HIM!
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sometimes i wonder how many versions of myself i’ve outgrown without even noticing. i look back at old photos and remember the thoughts i used to carry, the dreams i thought would save me. it’s strange how you can live inside yourself every day and still not realize you’re evolving. it’s only when you look back that you realize how far you’ve come, how many lives you’ve already lived in the same skin.
My father always told me:
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Sooner or later, on your fifth run or your twentieth, like-minded people will find you themselves."
And only recently have I realised that this principle works everywhere.
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Just FYI because evidently Fox or OAN or whatever is pushing the lie that America accepted the Statue of Liberty and that’s equivalent to the plane.
Congress VOTED to approve receiving the statue. So congress should vote on the jet
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I am uncertain why the West, especially The Pillar don't comprehend the difference between the UOC and the OCU. 1. The UOC recently severed all relations with Moscow; yet, your article states otherwise. 2. The UOC is apostolic and canonical; it always has been; and it's recognized as such by all of the local Orthodox churches as such. 3. The OCU is a false church neither possessing apostolicity--no apostolic ordinations--and is the creation of the US Government (USG) and the Ecumenical Patriarc…
The pope literally already did that. It is called the Anglican Ordinariates. Many Catholics are pretty happy about it.
Your definition of apostolic sounds like it is different from the Catholic one. I would appreciate understanding the definition of apostolic that you are using. I think it would help us understand the difference in the way of thinking. For us, an apostolic ordination is any ordination by a true bishop. What else is required for your definition?
Apostolic ordination, in Orthodoxy, is the same as in Catholicism--ordination by an apostolically ordained bishop from a canonical local Orthodox church. I would commend to you, that in the West, the Anglican Ordinariates are not in the same category as the non-apostolic, non-canonical OCU who refuse to be ordained by an apostolic bishop, i.e., meaning no corrective measures to validate the OCU priesthood will be accepted. It's akin to a Calvinist Baptist without having attended a seminary bein…
It sounds like the difference is "from a canonical local Orthodox church." We wouldn't have that stipulation.
So if a UOC bishop goes to Iraq and ordains a man, you would say that the ordination is not valid?
For Catholics the local part does not matter. Surely the OCU bishops were ordained by some bishop? But you are saying that the problem is that he was not from the UOC? So would you also say that the Ukrainian Catholic bishops are not apostolic?
If a UOC bishop were to seek to ordain someone in Iraq, first the UOC bishop would need permission from the local Iraqi Orthodox bishop, and, second, the person to be ordained would (likely) only be permitted to serve Ukrainians. The exception would be that the Iraqi Orthodox bishop is petitioned by the layman to have the UOC bishop perform the ordination based on a prior relationship between the two (the UOC bishop and the layman). A bishop cannot travel into another local bishop's *territory…
So, yes, that is the difference. Catholics would say that a bishop cannot lose his apostolic ordination nor lose his ability to ordain apostolic bishops. For instance, when Archbishop Lefebvre ordained four bishops, they are apostolic and validly ordained despite him not having permission to do so. This is why we recognize all the Orthodox and Old Catholics and Polish National Catholics etc as having apostolic orders despite the canonical disputes. So long as the form and matter are correct, a bishop validly ordains. Being defrocked by Moscow does not, according to our theology, have any effect upon his apostolicity.
The main reason for the Catholics to be in dialogue with any Christians is to achieve what Jesus called for, "That they may be one as we are one."
"Being defrocked by Moscow does not, according to our theology, have any effect upon his apostolicity." Interesting, so if the Pope were to defrock, anathematize, and laicize a bishop, that same *former bishop* could still ordain a priest? Yes, Orthodoxy is very different. As a priest, I cannot perform the Holy Mysteries in another local Orthodox church without first getting permission from my bishop and then receiving permission from the bishop whose church I am going to visit.
Absolutely! If Mr. Theodore McCarick were to ordain his cellmate a bishop, that man would be a bishop. Sacramental authority and Canonical authority have some overlap in Catholic theology but not completely.
I do have to ask for permission to celebrate Mass in another diocese, but if I fail to get the permission, the Mass would still be valid, the bread and wine would still change.
And the Catholic Church would also hold that a validly ordained Orthodox bishop - even if he were laicized, excommunicated, censured, etc by his patriarch or synod - could continue to perform valid ordinations or consecrations.
I think I understand. He could validly ordain a priest, but it would be against the law and so be illicit. Valid because Jesus shows up, illicit because He would not be pleased.
I don't want to make Jesus mad.