An ecumenical organization for the 1700s of the Council of Nice? Francis proposed Catholic- Orthodox celebrations..

In a letter addressed to the Orthodox patriarch of Constantinople, Pope Francis proposed that the 1700 anniversary of the Council of good be held jointly with the Orthodox. According to the Holy Father, the Jubilee will be an chance to witness the unity of all those baptized in the name of the Father and of the boy and of the Holy Spirit.

The Scriptures of the Holy Father were handed over to Bartłomiej and Cardinal Kurt Koch, the head of the Dicastery for the Promotion of Unity of Christians. Hierarch hosted in Constantinople for the celebration of the local patriarchy.

In a letter signed on 30 November, Francis emphasized that the inactive unfulfilled anticipation remains the "full communion" of the Holy Church and resulting from the schisms of autokephal Orthodox structures. inactive Catholics and Orthodox do not share the "common Eucharistic cup," lamented the Holy Father.

According to Francis, the “brotherhood” between Rome and Constantinople was renewed as a consequence of the changes to the Second Vatican Council, and hope remains for full consent.

The Holy Father referred to the opinion of theologians, according to whom "the restoration of full communion has an undeniable eschatological dimension, due to the fact that the way to unity coincides with the way of salvation already given in Jesus Christ, in which the Church will participate full only at the end of time."

According to Francis, the next step to reconciliation between Catholics and Orthodoxs may be to adopt a “synodical” mode of action. This listening to 1 another without judgement and condemnation would lead to a renewal of communion.

Christ's vicar besides argued that for 60 years – since the council declaration Unitatis Redintegratio – the Church has officially joined the ecumenical movement.

In the encyclical Mortalium Animos Pius XI, however, he powerfully condemned the pursuit of a “unity of Christians” in a way different from the acceptance by all of the actual Revelation, the faithful kept by the Holy Church. As he explained, it is not primarily the harmony and hearty disposition, but the “node of unity of faith” is to build the unity of Christians.

“How can a Christian be imagined relationshipwhere members, even erstwhile it comes to faith, could keep their own opinions, even if they objected to the opinion of others How could those who are opposed belong to 1 and the same union of believers?" the Holy Father asked rhetorically on the pages of encyclicals.

"We do not know what road leads from specified a diversity of sentences to the unity of the Church, due to the fact that the Church can only come from 1 teaching of Christian faith. However, we know how it is easy to neglect religion, or to indiferentism, or to modernism, whose deplorable sacrifices do not respect dogmatic fact as absolute, but as relative, i.e. as a variable according to various local and temporal needs, that it does not constitute the content of unchanging revelation, but adapts to human life," he added.

"As regards the articles of faith, the difference which was intended to be made between the alleged chief and not the chief points of religion is unconditionally not permitted, as if the erstwhile had to be recognized by all, while the second could stay for the free designation of the faithful. The supernatural virtue of religion has its formal origin in the authority to uncover God and does not let a akin difference. Therefore, all actual Christians believe in the mystery of the Holy Trinity as well as in the Immaculate Conception of God-parents, and with equal religion relate to the Incarnation of Christ as to the infallibility of the Roman Pope, as the Vatican Council described it," Pius XI bloomed.

After all, the Council of good has gathered in support of this unity of faith. After all, he was condemned, and Arius’ doctrinal errors were rejected, and a single confession of religion was established to include all who wanted to be Christians. However, this spirit is completely alien to the synodistic approach and logic of the "unity in diversity" that Francis is unfortunately trying to impose on the Church.

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