Is the Synod willing to give itself a self-inflicted gunshot wound by refusing ordinations, and people refuse to budge?
"Why can't they obey?"
Well yes, that's always the question, but the point remains: are you willing to torch communion over that, or find another way for them to prove their loyalty?
Is the Synod willing to give itself a self-inflicted gunshot wound by refusing ordinations, and people refuse to budge?
"Why can't they obey?"
Well yes, that's always the question, but the point remains: are you willing to torch communion over that, or find another way for them to prove their loyalty?
I think the answer is "no, they aren't", but they (and more importantly, Pope Francis) feel they can't "give in" because of the predent it sets. Yet the precedent of cutting off ordinations in the largest eparchy in that Church might probably be a dangerous precedent as well. And when your bluff is called, the climbdown looks even worse for you.
I'm a Latin who favors ad orientem. I don't like versus populum. Yet I also don't like a weaker more divided Church unless its absolutely necessary to draw a dividing line.
So I guess the question is:
Is the Synod willing to give itself a self-inflicted gunshot wound by refusing ordinations, and people refuse to budge?
"Why can't they obey?"
Well yes, that's always the question, but the point remains: are you willing to torch communion over that, or find another way for them to prove their loyalty?
I think the answer is "no, they aren't", but they (and more importantly, Pope Francis) feel they can't "give in" because of the predent it sets. Yet the precedent of cutting off ordinations in the largest eparchy in that Church might probably be a dangerous precedent as well. And when your bluff is called, the climbdown looks even worse for you.
I'm a Latin who favors ad orientem. I don't like versus populum. Yet I also don't like a weaker more divided Church unless its absolutely necessary to draw a dividing line.