^ I know the Dominicans stipulate a degree, and they weren't particularly specific on what kind of degree.

I'm at that point in life where I feel the two most obvious routes for the future are "family man" or "clergyman"; just wondering if I'd need to go back into education for it.

Shrimples you need a degree but that is often acquired during the priestly formation stage, so you will do a 4 year theology degree as part of seminary anyway

Oh, cool.

Good to know.

@Based Chav it depends. Most people who go to seminary go to college first and get a degree there, but not all seminaries require it. Jordanville, for example, is a traditional seminary, so you can apply with just a letter of recommendation from your priest if you're baptized ortho, or a letter from the bishop if you were baptized somewhere else. I haven't looked into seminaries for Catholics, but I know there's at least some ortho seminaries that don't require it. I wouldn't be beyond belief to see a catholic one doing the same

Afternoon lads and lasses

Greetings

Yeet

Is ID Software actually based?

And no I'm not talking about the joke they made about SJWs, I'm talking just in general.

Not sure. I do remember them screwing up at some point but I dont remember what

Doom was always pretty good.

I mean it's about a Catholic marine killing demons.

@Daniil so what do you think is gonna happen to goarch if the EP goes full schismatic and gives autocephaly to the Ukraine?

Why exactly is everyone so assblasted about the concept of Ukraine having a non-Russian jurisdiction?

I'm not memeing here

Outside of Russian imperialism it puzzles me

Well the long and short of it is that this isn't based on any sort of theological basis. This is just an appeasement to geopolitical powers. Ukraine right now is being pozzed af by NATO and granting autocephally will open the floodgates to corruption . And this is all done under the guise of friendship and ecumenism

Simply put, the EP has no jurisdiction on Russia any more than Antioch has on Alexandria for example

I kind of see the need for it to be honest but as you said on a political level

I don't see any real return of Ukraine to Russian culture

They wouldn't be engaged in a desperate fight against a superpower if they had any desire to return

Full disclosure on my part though uhhhhh I have friends who were in Azov and Pravyi

So perhaps my perception is tainted both by that and my hatred of Duginism

Please feel free to ping me in responses as I have like 6 hours now to sleep before a 9 hour shift

(If you ping me I see it tomorrow)

Hi

>Russian imperialism
If China tore cascadia and half of the midwest out of USA, kept propping up broken democracies and oligarchs that sell off their country's assets for pennies and whenever things go bad just do a revolution (color or armed), would you consider the desire to retake that land as "imperialism"?

@Smackface regardless on how you feel on the Ukraine/Russia situation, Bartholomew has overstepped his boundaries and wants to commune with outright schismatics for (((ecumenism)))

Yea, bart's off his rocker. All that CIA support won't buy him the approval of other patriarchs, not just Russian. The "ecumenical" council of Crete is the proof of that.

I'm just hoping archbishop Demetrios of goarch jumps ship and declares anathema on bart

One can only hope

So I live under a Dwayne Johnson so forgive me, but what did bart do?

Is it about the 2nd marriage for priests thing

It's about Ukraine

Bart wants to install a patriarch for Ukraine effectively usurping the Russian patriarch's authority. And he is giving the privilege to schismatic who want autocephally purely because of political tension between Russia and Ukraine @󠀂 󠀂

Wait a minute. Does Ukraine want their own Patriarch?

I thought due to the autocephalous nature of Orthodox churches, Constantinople doesn't get to exercise such authority like that?

It sounds to me like a situation where autocephaly for a church is only recognized by 1 other church

Indeed, thus has been roundly condemned not just Russia