Only by the Grace of
and only to the Glory of the Holy Trinity:
God the Father,
Unbegotten; God the Son, Onlybegotten;
and God the Holy
Spirit from the Father Proceeding:
Celtic
Orthodox Christian Quarterly
"If I yet pleased
men, I should not be the servant of Christ." [Galatians 1:10]
July
2007
Irony
On July 10, 2007 it was reported that the Roman Catholic
church
proclaimed that a church which completely adheres to the Faith
and has
Apostolic Succession, IS DEFECTIVE if its hierarchs do not
recognize
the leadership of the Roman Pope.
This has caused an outcry from churches that are related to the
Patriarchate of Constantinople with cries of "heresy" and the
like.
What is ironic is that the very same Patriarchate of Constantinople and
its allies preach the identical heresy: that only churches who
recognize the Patriarch of Constantinople as the leading AUTHORITY in
the Church are valid churches.
I have a question for the followers of Constantinople: Are
your claims hypocrisy or heresy? To those of us who still
follow the
original definition of Orthodoxy (Right Faith, Right Succession, Right
Sacraments), the outcry over Rome's statement is certainly irony.
However we would like to understand what makes their statement more
heretical than the Papal claims of the Patriarchs of
Constantinople
since the heretic Meletios IV?
+Maelruain, Cele De