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Actualy the Portuguese in Ethiopia and India had a very colonial mentality just as that of the Spaniards in America. They did not see the local Christians as brothers sharing a different tradition (just like the Byzantines) but as primitive people of inferior culture who had to be civilized and reduced to the "Roman" obedience.
I would not blame Rome for this since it was very much a Portuguese attitude. And I am informed that Ethiopians see this strugle in a global way, as the struggle between monophisitism and chalcedonianism; and that the Portuguese left extremely rare doctrinal errors in Ethiopia that are heretical for the Catholic Church too.
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Charles,
I agree, there are things about the particulars of Ethiopia and Eritrea - the relative geographic isolation and cultural uniqueness are significant considerations - that argue strongly for all the jurisdictions to ultimately be Ge'ez.
My prayers for your mother's swift recovery and for you, that you can keep up with her wants. (Been there, done that!)
Many years,
Neil
"One day all our ethnic traits ... will have disappeared. Time itself is seeing to this. And so we can not think of our communities as ethnic parishes, ... unless we wish to assure the death of our community."
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Originally posted by Yuhannon:
The CNEWA can not help Ethiopian Catholics that are in North America, ...
...the Ethiopian College in the Vatican (The only college within the Vatican itself) also trains clergy Yuhannon, You are laboring under a common misperception about CNEWA. Actually, there is no prohibition against it assisting Eastern communities in the diaspora; they specifically recognize that increasing emigration from the homelands places added burdens on the Churches "over here". "In the United States, CNEWA is helping to launch the newly created Syro-Malabar Catholic Eparchy of St. Thomas of Chicago, provides funds for the formation of seminarians for the Ukrainian Greek Catholic Eparchy of Stamford and assisted with the repair of St. Ann's Armenian Catholic Cathedral in New York City." See: Eastern Churches Outside Their Homelands [ cnewa.org] . In the short-term, one would have to look to Ethiopia as a source for additional priests to service the faithful in the US, since it's going to take time to nuture vocations here and that is best achieved when there is a spiritual structure in place to do so. Many years, Neil
"One day all our ethnic traits ... will have disappeared. Time itself is seeing to this. And so we can not think of our communities as ethnic parishes, ... unless we wish to assure the death of our community."
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Neil,
Many thanks for your prayers.
Peace,
Charles
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Shlomo Neil, I mispoke. What I should have said was that CNEWA does not have the resources to help here in North America. As quoted from the CNEWA: CNEWA continues its modest support of these communities Also Neil, if we wait for the Ethiopian Catholic Church to get organized, the community here in North America will be gone. What community do you know of that can last 20+ years without a priest? The present day community will not last if it does not have priests trained in their Liturgical Tradition. It is much easier to have bi-ritual priests than no priests at all. Poosh BaShlomo, Yuhannon
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