"By way of very inexact analogy, that is like the U.S. government telling the USCCB the Catholic Church can continue to operate in America, provided they break communion with the pope."
I would strongly disagree. Not even an "inexact" analogy. Papal primacy is a teaching of the Catholic Church. Patriarchal jurisdiction is an administrativ…
"By way of very inexact analogy, that is like the U.S. government telling the USCCB the Catholic Church can continue to operate in America, provided they break communion with the pope."
I would strongly disagree. Not even an "inexact" analogy. Papal primacy is a teaching of the Catholic Church. Patriarchal jurisdiction is an administrative matter in Orthodoxy.
An inexact but legitimate analogy would be the Episcopal Church breaking subordination to the Archbishop of Canterbury after the American Revolution. The government in no way is demanding that there not be communion with the Russian Orthodox Church or any other church in Orthodoxy.
"By way of very inexact analogy, that is like the U.S. government telling the USCCB the Catholic Church can continue to operate in America, provided they break communion with the pope."
I would strongly disagree. Not even an "inexact" analogy. Papal primacy is a teaching of the Catholic Church. Patriarchal jurisdiction is an administrative matter in Orthodoxy.
An inexact but legitimate analogy would be the Episcopal Church breaking subordination to the Archbishop of Canterbury after the American Revolution. The government in no way is demanding that there not be communion with the Russian Orthodox Church or any other church in Orthodoxy.