MANCHESTER, New Hampshire,
February 27, 2017 /PRNewswire/ --
To read the full article, published January 23, click here:
http://www.crisismagazine.com/2017/orthodox-council-unity
British Crisis Magazine ('A Voice for the Faithful Catholic
Laity') published an article on the historic Holy and Great Council
of the Orthodox Church, which took place in Crete in June
2016.
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Author Tyler Arnold describes a
number of disagreements that have arisen as a result of the
Council's adoption of the "Relations" document, which addresses
Catholic-Orthodox relations. Crisis Magazine describes the discord
between Ecumenical Patriarch Bartholomew I of Constantinople, who
holds the title "first among equals" in the Orthodox Church, and
other Orthodox Churches including those of Bulgaria, Georgia, Moldova, Russia and even Greece, as threatening to factionalize the
Orthodox world instead of uniting it.
Crisis Magazine also comments on Rev. Dn. Paul L. Gavrilyuk's statement from the office of
the Ecumenical Patriarchate while discussing the "Relations"
section of the Council and its consequences.
As the Crisis Magazine article notes, "Vatican II caused a
mountain of controversy within the Catholic Church in the 1960s
resulting in schismatic tensions. The documents, including the
aforementioned decree, caused some Catholics to reject the Council
and others to even abandon the Church entirely, though virtually no
Council fathers did so despite lively disagreement over the proper
interpretation of the documents in the years that followed."
"It is unsurprising that some of the same concerns are raising
tension within the Orthodox Church," concludes the author,
Tyler Arnold, for Crisis
Magazine.
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http://www.crisismagazine.com/about-us
SOURCE Crisis Magazine