Greek Catholic Bishop: Synod on Synodality Is Not Like Eastern Synods
Greek Byzantine Catholic Bishop Manuel Nin stresses that Synod means, above all, journeying with Christ and warns against “Christian parliamentarianism.”
Wednesday, May 14, 2025
IS THIS EASTERN BISHOP’S CONCERN ABOUT POPE FRANCIS’ SYNODALITY ADVISE TO POPE LEO AS TO HOW TO REFINE AND REFORM POPE FRANCIS’ IMPLEMENTATION OF SYNODALITY? IN A WORD YES, PLEASE GOD!
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His Grace presented this correctly. No comments.
So have said Eastern bishops, both Catholic and Orthodox, for years, and so has been reported in more conservative Catholic news sources, for years, and it remains to be seen if Rome under current management will listen or simply throw up their hands and say they cannot stop the juggernaut they created. Given modern Rome's tendency to admit wrong only so far as traditional things go, I am not very hopeful.
Bob,
The thing to remember is synodality, per the Western Church's approach, will not, juridically, effect us. His Grace is simply cautioning against creating a false equivalency. Usage in the East is within the confines of a different structure and for a different purpose.
Yes, I am aware he was not warning of danger to his church, but pointing out the very late modern Franciscovite rewrite of the meaning of "synod". Left unsaid is what might happen were the Latin synod process allowed to rewrite the religion, and what that would do to Eastern churches who currently are in communion with Rome, and could just as easily uncommunicate (again, largely) were Rome to continue heading off into the deep end.
By treaties, some of which have been in place for centuries, nothing. Legally, we are self governing relying upon our respective patriarchs for apostolic succession. This means, the pope of Rome, formerly the Patriarch of the West, has one function for sui juris churches which are not juridically partriarchaites.
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