tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-73042886598650075.post7915526661092343515..comments2024-03-22T11:37:52.668-05:00Comments on Byzantine, Texas: National Catholic Register interviews Met. HilarionByzantine, TXhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17845681957622343484noreply@blogger.comBlogger2125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-73042886598650075.post-57951412900480304372014-04-11T20:46:48.502-05:002014-04-11T20:46:48.502-05:00"Incredibly myopic"
Au contraire, it see..."Incredibly myopic"<br />Au contraire, it sees things as they are.<br />"Western Uniatism" has nothing to do with the reunifcation of ROCOR with its Mother Church, nor does ROCOR have any "Western Uniatism" - no state is forcing anyone to be WRO.<br />The Russian Church had approved the Western Rite in Bohemia in 1870 and the USA about 50 years later - in neither place did the Czar have the power to force anyone to adopt it.<br />If you read the debates of the last Sejm of the Polish Kingdom, you see that the Uniate church was dissolving - so badly that the Polish King had the Sejm set up an Orthodox hierarchy (at the time, the Orthodox had no bishop in the country) to keep his Orthodox subjects loyal. The priests who brought the Kholm eparchy back into Orthodoxy came from Galicia, out of the Tsar's reach.<br />Btw, there was no Patriarch of Moscow the entire 19th century, Tsarist or otherwise.<br />Collaborate? I don't see the UGCC complaining about the Communists forcibly annexing West Ukraine from Ukraine and expelling its Poles.<br />And the dirty little secret that the Communists rebuffed the UGCC, not vice versa.Isa Almisryhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/13749216447941238038noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-73042886598650075.post-68928911841246940282014-04-05T09:22:27.567-05:002014-04-05T09:22:27.567-05:00The paragraph that begins: "It is no secret t...The paragraph that begins: "It is no secret that the “Uniatism” was and is a special project of the Roman Catholic Church, aimed to convert the Orthodox to Catholicism." is incredibly myopic. After all, the Moscow Patriarchate has established a canonical link with ROCOR despite its promoting Western Uniatism. The Tsarist Patriarch of Moscow dissolved the Greek Catholic Church in Poland during the mid-19th and in its not-so-long ago its collaboration with the Communist proved fruitful in forcibly converting Catholics and oppressing Catholic clergy. Now Metr. Hilarion's rant plays into the hands of Putin's Russian expansion plan.Unknownhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/10751094166090375495noreply@blogger.com