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March 08, 2006
Patriarch of the West?
A week or so ago, there was a kerfuffle about the title "Patriarch of the West" being dropped from the Pope's titles in the latest official Vatican Title Directory or whatever. Some wondered if it was a slapdown of the Orthodox, which seems highly unlikely. Fr. Jim Tucker has, what seems to me, a more reasonable possibility.
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Amy,
The Russian Orthodox response is below (French). They were more than a bit suspicious, and it was interesting that the official reaction came from the RO Representitive to the European Institutions, Bishop Hilarion (See of Vienna and Austria).
http://orthodoxeurope.org/#19-2-253
The Free Translator at the link below gave a coherent machine translation of the French text.
http://www.freetranslation.com/
Posted by: mrp at Mar 8, 2006 3:14:33 PM
I follow Orthodox threads, and there seems to be the same amount of speculation and confusion by them as to what this means.
Posted by: tony c at Mar 8, 2006 5:49:08 PM
Seems to be a trend here of the Holy Father making a statement without actually making one. Restoring the ancient Pallium, dropping the Tiara from his coat-of-arms, expounding on love in his first Encyclical, dropping "Patriarch of the West".
Round and round Ratzi goes, where he stops, nobody knows. :)
Posted by: Jason at Mar 8, 2006 6:51:17 PM
The Russian Orthodox are always suspicious; that is, when they aren't downright hostile . . .
Personally, I am against this change. Alas, once again, the call from Rome did not come, as it has not come in every other instance . . .
Posted by: Fr Martin Fox (Septimus) at Mar 8, 2006 11:50:24 PM
Father Tucker offered an interesting possibility.
Posted by: Joe at Mar 9, 2006 4:53:13 PM
