{"id":1525,"date":"2020-10-30T13:43:04","date_gmt":"2020-10-30T13:43:04","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/ocpsociety.org\/alvares\/?p=1525"},"modified":"2020-10-30T13:44:43","modified_gmt":"2020-10-30T13:44:43","slug":"pope-francis-and-the-importance-of-western-rite-orthodoxy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ocpsociety.org\/marp\/pope-francis-and-the-importance-of-western-rite-orthodoxy\/","title":{"rendered":"Pope Francis and the Importance of Western Rite Orthodoxy"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/ocpsociety.org\/alvares\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/10\/photo-1476461386254-61c4ff3a1cc3-600x337.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone wp-image-1526\" src=\"http:\/\/ocpsociety.org\/alvares\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/10\/photo-1476461386254-61c4ff3a1cc3-600x337.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"520\" height=\"292\" data-wp-pid=\"1526\" srcset=\"https:\/\/ocpsociety.org\/marp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/10\/photo-1476461386254-61c4ff3a1cc3-600x337.jpg 600w, https:\/\/ocpsociety.org\/marp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/10\/photo-1476461386254-61c4ff3a1cc3-600x337-300x169.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 520px) 100vw, 520px\" \/><\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><strong>George Alexander &#8211; Guest Contributor\u00a0 (OCP-COS-MARP) &#8211; 30\/10\/2020<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">The\u00a0opinion\u00a0stated by Papa Francis on LGBT has\u00a0become\u00a0an\u00a0interesting\u00a0point of\u00a0conversation\u00a0in the\u00a0public\u00a0sphere amid the\u00a0COVID-19\u00a0pandemic.\u00a0He\u00a0became\u00a0the first Pope to\u00a0endorse\u00a0same-sex civil unions.\u00a0However, Eastern and Oriental Orthodox Churches have\u00a0taken\u00a0a stiff stand against LGBT issues.<\/p>\n<p><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/ocpsociety.org\/alvares\/the-quest-for-a-western-rite-orthodox-archbishopric-patriarchate\/\">The Quest for a Western Rite Orthodox Archbishopric-Patriarchate<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">The\u00a0declaration\u00a0by Papa Francis with no\u00a0doubt\u00a0has\u00a0negatively\u00a0affected many conservative Roman Catholics.\u00a0They might\u00a0look\u00a0for\u00a0the next\u00a0best\u00a0option.\u00a0I\u00a0do not expect that a\u00a0large\u00a0number of Roman Catholics would\u00a0immediately\u00a0leave their Church to\u00a0join\u00a0Orthodox Churches.\u00a0However, there might be at least a few Roman Catholics who would\u00a0like\u00a0considering\u00a0other ecclesiastical options.\u00a0For them, the Orthodox Church will remain the next most preferred option, especially Western Rite Orthodoxy.\u00a0If in\u00a0case\u00a0any of the Roman Catholic communities express an\u00a0interest\u00a0in Orthodoxy,\u00a0they\u00a0shall be welcomed as a Western\u00a0Rite\u00a0unless\u00a0they\u00a0are willing to\u00a0completely\u00a0integrate themselves into\u00a0Eastern Orthodoxy.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">The idea is to provide them with an ample opportunity to explore Orthodox Christianity and decide for them instead of persuading to choose a specific rite. The scope and importance of Western Rite Orthodox are on the rise. It is one of the best gifts that can be offered by the Orthodox East to lost brothers in the West. This will enable them to reconnect to their \u2018lost Orthodox past.\u2019 However, these things depend on the willingness and flexibility by the orthodox hierarchy in nurturing Western Rite Orthodoxy.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><strong>Source:<\/strong><br \/>\n<strong>OCP-COS-MARP<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>George Alexander &#8211; Guest Contributor\u00a0 (OCP-COS-MARP) &#8211; 30\/10\/2020 The\u00a0opinion\u00a0stated by Papa Francis on LGBT has\u00a0become\u00a0an\u00a0interesting\u00a0point of\u00a0conversation\u00a0in the\u00a0public\u00a0sphere amid the\u00a0COVID-19\u00a0pandemic.\u00a0He\u00a0became\u00a0the first Pope to\u00a0endorse\u00a0same-sex civil unions.\u00a0However, Eastern and Oriental Orthodox Churches have\u00a0taken\u00a0a stiff stand against LGBT issues. The Quest for a Western Rite Orthodox Archbishopric-Patriarchate The\u00a0declaration\u00a0by Papa Francis with no\u00a0doubt\u00a0has\u00a0negatively\u00a0affected many conservative Roman Catholics.\u00a0They might\u00a0look\u00a0for\u00a0the next\u00a0best\u00a0option.\u00a0I\u00a0do not [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1525","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-ocp-marp-updates"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ocpsociety.org\/marp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1525"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ocpsociety.org\/marp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ocpsociety.org\/marp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ocpsociety.org\/marp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ocpsociety.org\/marp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1525"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/ocpsociety.org\/marp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1525\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1529,"href":"https:\/\/ocpsociety.org\/marp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1525\/revisions\/1529"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ocpsociety.org\/marp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1525"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ocpsociety.org\/marp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1525"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ocpsociety.org\/marp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1525"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}