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Casey Dudek
Section 1
Eastern Catholic Churches collectively consist of 18 million members worldwide.1 Dwarfed by their Latin Catholic counterparts – who number 1.345 billion2
1.34%
This short-sighted and unfatherly decision
isn‘t common good > individual good?
Similar events – such as the conflict between Bp. John Ireland and Fr. Alexis Toth, and Ea Semper, which prohibited married priests from emigrating to America – resulted in the loss of approximately 163 Eastern Catholic parishes and over 100,000 laypeople to Russian Orthodoxy,
Was it really celibacy that caused this?
hierarchy’s inept handling of clerical marriage
such as?
September 1907, when Pope Pius X issued the apostolic letter Ea Semper. This document stated that Bp. Ortynsky didn’t have any diocesan authority following his appointment and no married priests were to be ordained in America or sent to America
If Latin and Greek Catholics possessed a proper ecclesiology
such as?