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Now that’s a bold statement. To say the Eastern Rites lacks the grandeur of the Roman is mad. Seems like you would have preferred that they never existed. Clearly it is willed by God by the fact that it thrived through the centuries.

“The Churches of the East are worthy of the glory and reverence that they hold throughout the whole of Christendom in virtue of those extremely ancient, singular memorials that they have bequeathed to us.”

Orientalium Dignitas, Leo XIII. You should read the rest of it to know the mind of the Church on this matter.

Or are you going to say that Leo XIII is a modernist because he doesn’t agree with you?

Feb 21
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