Message from @Orrbit

Discord ID: 570389422726447135


2019-04-23 17:56:57 UTC  
2019-04-23 22:43:41 UTC  

I don’t see why us as Catholics couldn’t honor a saint in the Orthodox Churches. We’re brother churches after all

2019-04-23 22:44:17 UTC  

Save for the few major theological differences and cultural differences, were pretty much the same.

2019-04-23 22:45:14 UTC  

Isn’t it sanctioned that we can receive communion validly from an Orthodox Church if the bishop over them is fine with it and they can receive communion from us?

2019-04-23 22:45:39 UTC  

Then why not honor their saints as well even if you don’t ask for their intercession.

2019-04-23 22:47:04 UTC  

we can only receive communion if we can't get to a Catholic church

2019-04-23 22:47:13 UTC  

but their sacraments are valid, yeah

2019-04-23 22:47:35 UTC  

also, we do share most of the saints since a lot of them come from before the schism

2019-04-23 22:49:17 UTC  

Ye

2019-04-23 22:53:33 UTC  

And I see

2019-04-23 22:53:44 UTC  

Thanks for the reminder on the communion thing

2019-04-23 23:18:25 UTC  

@AP-1138 because they are schismatics and outside of salvation by nature of schism. It's not hard to understand.

2019-04-23 23:19:00 UTC  

We don't share most saints because most saints were proclaimed in the past few centuries.

2019-04-23 23:19:53 UTC  

And most of that in the past 50 years

2019-04-23 23:21:04 UTC  

And we'd call a few major theological differences heresy in a number of issues, for example many deny divine simplicity

2019-04-23 23:21:29 UTC  

aren't coptics Monophysites?

2019-04-23 23:21:55 UTC  

And as thee Church has defined a number of dogmas since, they at least partially deny those.

2019-04-23 23:22:05 UTC  

Honestly, from my talks with an orca-dog I know (not in /cult/), most of the differences between us and them are semantic and cultural. They're just autistic and insist that their big Greek words are better and more true than our big Latin words. My EO friend agrees, as does his priest.

2019-04-23 23:22:59 UTC  

what do your EO mates think about the Papacy?

2019-04-23 23:23:43 UTC  

Do they accept papal infallibility for example? Because that's a dogma and it's far from cultural.

2019-04-23 23:23:55 UTC  

yeah thats a big one

2019-04-23 23:24:07 UTC  

Or take the council of trent, see how they feel about many of those.

2019-04-23 23:24:22 UTC  

or like any council after the schism for that matter

2019-04-23 23:24:31 UTC  

Fillioque is major as well

2019-04-23 23:24:37 UTC  

For example that the Catholic Church can punnish heretics and schismatics by death.

2019-04-23 23:24:37 UTC  

I know about all of that

2019-04-23 23:24:57 UTC  

do Eastern Catholics acknowledge filioque?

2019-04-23 23:25:05 UTC  

That's a bit more complicated. They don't like most of the popes themselves, or how much power the pope has. That said, my buddy at least thinks Orthodoxy would benefit from a similar system.

2019-04-23 23:25:06 UTC  

But at the same time, if it’s possible, I should like to see us reconciled with each other

2019-04-23 23:25:11 UTC  

Orthodoxy invented a lot of post hoc anti thomist theology to justify schism

2019-04-23 23:25:18 UTC  

Which is the filioque

2019-04-23 23:25:25 UTC  

funny, Orthodoxy used to benefit from it when it was Catholic

2019-04-23 23:26:17 UTC  

Reconciliation is only one, which is submission to the Catholic Church. Anything else is a farce.

2019-04-23 23:26:35 UTC  

I’m aware

2019-04-23 23:26:39 UTC  

But they’ll never agree to it

2019-04-23 23:27:32 UTC  

Probably not on the whole, especially before Catholicism retakes politics power. Orthodoxy is easy to control with politics, be it Poland, the Sultan or Stalin.

2019-04-23 23:28:24 UTC  

The Orthodox don't like the filioque because they think it creates a subordinate role for the Holy Spirit, which in their view breaks the unity of the Trinity. I've been trying to come up with a good argument to counter that claim, but the EO are more mystery focused, making it difficult to formulate a convincing rational argument.

2019-04-23 23:28:35 UTC  

Most Eastern rite Catholics are Ukrainian, descending from those who converted during Polish rule.

2019-04-23 23:28:51 UTC  

True

2019-04-23 23:29:09 UTC  

Economic and political power play a major role in shaping that

2019-04-23 23:29:23 UTC  

Mystery focused is a fun way of saying bad at high level theology 😂