Mr. Flynn, thanks for your feedback.
1. I don't know your Ukrainian correspondent and my words are not meant to disparage him/her. But invoking the logic is akin to saying Biden/Pelosi are Catholics and, therefore, knowledgeable of the Catholic faith and its ecclesiology.
2. I'm a Mexican-American from Texas, a retired military officer,…
1. I don't know your Ukrainian correspondent and my words are not meant to disparage him/her. But invoking the logic is akin to saying Biden/Pelosi are Catholics and, therefore, knowledgeable of the Catholic faith and its ecclesiology.
2. I'm a Mexican-American from Texas, a retired military officer, and a late vocations priest, and even I understand the ecclesiological issues 'in Ukraine.' I am one of the priests who left the EP to escape the non-canonical, non-apostolic actions (of the EP)!
3. "Conflate" is a good word, but the content and context used in your article are the same as in much of the West. (And I don't want "The Pillar" to be of the West!) But saying that the "points raised are not universally [held] in Ukraine" one could say the same things of Catholicism in the West. And so, all things receive equal credence?...as do the comments concerning Ukraine? (One of the reasons I subscribe to "The Pillar" is to seek some measure of ground truth.)
I would never wish anyone to move away from a non-canonical, non-apostolic church corrupting ecclesiology.
And so, I will leave you with one thought, if the non-canonical, non-apostolic OCU is to be the means or bridge with which the Pope and the EP unite, which appears to be on the mind of many Orthodox, how much more spiritually corrupt would the RCC be? If I were a Catholic priest or lay person, I would be weeping.
Mr. Flynn, thanks for your feedback.
1. I don't know your Ukrainian correspondent and my words are not meant to disparage him/her. But invoking the logic is akin to saying Biden/Pelosi are Catholics and, therefore, knowledgeable of the Catholic faith and its ecclesiology.
2. I'm a Mexican-American from Texas, a retired military officer, and a late vocations priest, and even I understand the ecclesiological issues 'in Ukraine.' I am one of the priests who left the EP to escape the non-canonical, non-apostolic actions (of the EP)!
3. "Conflate" is a good word, but the content and context used in your article are the same as in much of the West. (And I don't want "The Pillar" to be of the West!) But saying that the "points raised are not universally [held] in Ukraine" one could say the same things of Catholicism in the West. And so, all things receive equal credence?...as do the comments concerning Ukraine? (One of the reasons I subscribe to "The Pillar" is to seek some measure of ground truth.)
I would never wish anyone to move away from a non-canonical, non-apostolic church corrupting ecclesiology.
And so, I will leave you with one thought, if the non-canonical, non-apostolic OCU is to be the means or bridge with which the Pope and the EP unite, which appears to be on the mind of many Orthodox, how much more spiritually corrupt would the RCC be? If I were a Catholic priest or lay person, I would be weeping.
God bless you for all you do.