ecumenical catholic church of christ

is there a possibility that pope benedict the 16th will grace or bless a new vatican III Cuncil for church reformation for a universal unity...we do need to settle once and for all issues like women ordination, married priesthood, eutanasia, abortion, Society of pope pius X(excommunication,heresy,schism), vatican archives or dark secrets of the holy bible and Legionaries of Christ allegations....we need to talk about in the negotiating table of the papacy this church issues...

I doubt it. Church Councils only happen every hundred or so years. In fact we have not inplemented Vatican II properly yet. The issue of Womens Ordination to the priesthood is settled forever. A married priesthood is only a remote possibility. Abortion, euthansia are settled. The papacy has been settled for 2000 years.

2006-04-21 17:53:14 by archie cute

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I know they were originally one body and both can trace their bishops back to Jesus and the Apostles but who was leaving whom. The Catholics claim the Orthodox abandoned Rome by not accepting the power of the Pope to unilaterally add the filioque and to rule the other bishops while the Orthodox claim the Roman bishop left the other four bishops and therefore left the true Church when it began unilaterally making decisions without ecumenical councils like they had originally. It is more complicated than that but that is my summary. I want to know what Catholics, Orthodox and I guess Protestants think about this. Who abandoned whom? I'm leaning towards the Orthodox explanation of things based on what I've read on both sides but if a Catholic can convince me then maybe I'll become Catholic. I am sure I am no longer a Protestant though. How could God's Truth be in individual interpretation that has led to thousands of separate denominations teaching contradictory things?

During life time of Jesus Christianity did not exist as a religion. It was after two hundred years of his death that it got organized into a faith by his name. Christianity spread as an organized religion after Constantinople decided to adopt a religion as the state religion. The division of churches is a development which is much later in history that has nothing to do with Jesus Christ himself.

2007-11-11 21:07:16 by David

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Here is a statement from the Second Vatican Council that contradicts Catholic teaching.

"ecumenical action should be encouraged so that ... Catholics might cooperate with their separated brethren ... by a common profession before the nations of faith in God and in Jesus Christ ..." (Ad Gentes, §115).

Now here is a Catholic statement of what the Church teaches about non-Catholics.

"Now it is manifest that he who adheres to the teaching of the Church, as to an infallible rule, assents to whatever the Church teaches; otherwise, if, of the things taught by the Church, he holds what he chooses to hold, and rejects what he chooses to reject, he no longer adheres to the teaching of the Church as to an infallible rule, but to his own will... Therefore it is clear that such a heretic with regard to one article has no faith in the other articles, but only a kind of opinion in accordance with his own will" (Saint Thomas Aquinas, Summa Theologica, II II, Q.5, A.3).
Quite a contradiction wouldn't ya say?

You need to look at these two statements in their historical context.

St. Thomas Aquinas lived in a time when the only formal divisions in the Christian Church were on geographical boundaries. During that stage of the Church's history, people who left the Catholic Church did so because they were truly apostate.

Today we have a very different situation in which the sacrament of Baptism is being validly practiced by enormous numbers of people not in the Catholic Church. Vatican II reflects this reality.

And even if it were a contradiction, James O would still be right: An ecumenical council has greater authority than a theologian.

2008-06-22 18:22:04 by The Italian

These are just a few of our Christian Churches

Armenian Catholic Church
Belarusian Catholic Church
Bulgarian Catholic Church
Chaldean Catholic Church
Coptic Catholic Church
Croatian Greek Catholic Church
Ethiopian Catholic Church
Georgian Catholic Church
Greek Catholic Church
Hungarian Greek Catholic Church
Italo-Albanian Catholic Church
Macedonian Catholic Church
Maronite Catholic Church
Melkite Catholic Church
Romanian Catholic Church
Russian Catholic Church
Ruthenian Catholic Church (usually called the "Byzantine Catholic Church" in the United States)
Slovak Greek Catholic Church
Syrian Catholic Church
Syro-Malabar Church
Syro-Malankara Catholic Church
Ukrainian Greek Catholic Church
The Roman Catholic Church considers itself the One Holy Catholic and Apostolic Church that Christ founded.[4]
[edit]Anglican Communion
Main articles: Anglicanism, Anglican Communion
Anglican Church in Aotearoa, New Zealand and Polynesia
Anglican Church in Thailand
Anglican Church of Australia
Anglican Church of Canada
Anglican Church of Kenya
Anglican Church of Korea
Anglican Church of Papua New Guinea
Anglican Church of Southern Africa
Church in Wales
Church of England
Church of Ireland
Church of Nigeria
Church of Uganda
Church of the Province of Burundi
Church of the Province of Central Africa
Church of the Province of Melanesia
Church of the Province of Myanmar
Church of the Province of Rwanda
Church of the Province of South East Asia
Church of the Province of Tanzania
Church of the Province of the Indian Ocean
Church of the Province of the West Indies (History)
Church of the Province of West Africa
Episcopal Church in Jerusalem and the Middle East
Episcopal Church in the United States of America
Episcopal Church of Cuba
Episcopal Church of the Sudan
Hong Kong Sheng Kung Hui
Iglesia Anglicana de la Region Central America
Iglesia Anglicana de México
Iglesia Anglicana del Cono Sur de las Americas
Igreja Episcopal Anglicana do Brasil
Lusitanian Church of Portugal
Nippon Sei Ko Kai (Japan)
Philippine Episcopal Church
Scottish Episcopal Church
Spanish Reformed Episcopal Church
[edit]Eastern Orthodox Church
(In order of precedence. Indentation indicates autonomy rather than autocephaly.)
Orthodox Church of Constantinople: the Ecumenical Patriarchate
Orthodox Church of Finland
Ukrainian Orthodox Church of the USA
Ukrainian Orthodox Church of Canada
Orthodox Church of Estonia
Eastern Orthodox Church of Alexandria
Antiochian Orthodox Church
Antiochian Orthodox Christian Archdiocese of North America
Western Rite Vicariate of the North American Archdiocese
Orthodox Church of Jerusalem
Orthodox Church of Mount Sinai
Russian Orthodox Church
Chinese Orthodox Church
Japanese Orthodox Church
Ukrainian Orthodox Church
Metropolia of Western Europe
Belorussian Orthodox Church
Moldovan Orthodox Church
Georgian Orthodox and Apostolic Church
Serbian Orthodox Church
Orthodox Ohrid Archbishopric
Romanian Orthodox Church
Metropolis of Bessarabia
Bulgarian Orthodox Church
Cypriot Orthodox Church
Church of Greece
Polish Orthodox Church
Albanian Orthodox Church
Czech and Slovak Orthodox Church
Orthodox Church in America
I think that you missed the names from the African countries. I've attached a map link if you don't know what they are.

http://www.africaguide.com/afmap.htm

Well, I'm not sure about African American churches, but I must add that the majority of Armenians are "Armenian Orthodox", with only minorities being Catholic and/or Evangelical. On that note, Armenia prides itself on being the first nation to formally adopt Christianity (301ad)! Nice Q!

2008-01-08 11:20:32 by mrs.w

The Eastern Orthodox Church is not a single church but rather a family of 13 self-governing bodies, denominated by the nation in which they are located (e.g., the Greek Orthodox Church, Russian Orthodox Church, etc.). They are united in their understanding of the sacraments, doctrine, liturgy, and church government, but each administers its own affairs.



The head of each Orthodox church is called a "patriarch" or "metropolitan." The patriarch of Constantinople (Istanbul, Turkey) is considered the "ecumenical," or universal, patriarch. He is the closest thing to a counterpart to the Pope in the Roman Catholic Church, but unlike the Pope, who is known as VICARIUS FILIUS DEI (the vicar of the Son of God), the bishop of Constantinople is known as PRIMUS INTER PARES (the first amongst equals). He enjoys special honor, but he has no power to interfere with the 12 other Orthodox communions.



The Orthodox Church claims to be the one, true church of Christ and seeks to trace its origin back to the original apostles through an unbroken chain of succession. Orthodox thinkers debate the spiritual status of Roman Catholics and Protestants, and a few still consider them heretics. Like Catholics and Protestants, however, Orthodox believers affirm the Trinity, the Bible as the Word of God, Jesus as God the Son, and other biblical doctrines. However, in doctrine, they have much more in common with Roman Catholics than they do Protestant believers.



The doctrine of justification by faith is virtually absent from the history and theology of Orthodoxy. Rather, Orthodoxy emphasizes theosis (literally, "divinization"), the gradual process by which Christians become more and more like Christ. Other Orthodox distinctives that are in conflict with the protestant (biblical) creeds include:

The equal authority of church tradition and Scripture

Discouragement of individuals interpreting the Bible apart from tradition

The perpetual virginity of Mary

Prayer for the dead

Baptism of infants w/o reference to individual responsibility and faith

The possibility of salvation after death

The possibility of losing salvation



While the Eastern Orthodox Church has claimed some of the church's great voices, they do not speak with a clear message that can be harmonized with the Gospel of Christ. The clarion call of the Reformers for "Scripture Alone, Faith Alone, Grace Alone, and Christ Alone" is missing in this branch of Christendom and that is too precious a treasure to do without

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2006-03-24 10:41:48 by toing