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Matthew K Michels, OblSB's avatar

I'll say it again: at this point, place the entire eparchy under interdict, revoke the faculties of all the eparchy clergy, and physically lock the churches so the priests cannot try and celebrate liturgies of their own accord (which they would try, and thus try to levy some sense of legitimacy).

The game is up. They don't want to be Catholic, that's fine - the door is on the left.

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"Father Stanislaus Alla, SJ, professor of Moral Theology Vidyajyoti College of Theology in Delhi, also told Matters India that Vasil’’s conduct since arriving in India earlier this month “explicitly reveals, the use of ‘authority’ in the Church has become central.”"

He's right. The Vatican's "case" here relies on authority, in fact a maximalist form of authority which we are used to here in the Latin church (where Bishops and Cardinals treat the Pope like a boss). I'm not sure that the East is used to this sort of maximalist claim in such internal matters as variants in their liturgy.

And it isn't so much whether the authority exists but whether decisions should be resolved solely on the basis of authority. That is, should this problem be resolved by the statement "I have decided" (authority) or on the basis of some other process and reasons?

It seems like "who has the power" is the constant question in the church now and to me that doesn't seem like a good thing.

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