Eastern Catholic Churches: A Roman Catholic Perspective, Brian Daley

Plenary session "The Eastern Catholic Churches - A Roman Catholic Perspective Fifty Years after Orientalium ecclesiarum" by Brian Daley, SJ. Introduction by Very Rev. Dr. Peter Galadza at the conference "The Vatican II Decree on the Eastern Catholic Churches, Orientalium ecclesiarum - Fifty Years Later", University of Toronto, Toronto, Canada, 17 October 2014.

4:35 Signs of contradiction, Orthodox counterparts
4:50 Eastern Catholic churches referred to as "uniates".
5:15 Rome and Orthodox family coming together in spirit of fraternal equality and respect
5:20 Height of tensions in Eastern Europe, break up of Soviet empire. International Orthodox Commission, 1990
6:03 Balamand declaration (statement). Uniatism is officially over. Balamand statement written in anger, Orthodox anger.
7:10 Gangs in Western Ukraine interrupting divine litury, Polish Catholic nuns, Orthodox bishops.
7:40 Real obsticle keeping eastern and western Christians apart was Roman ecclesiastical imperialism.
8:40 World after communism needed to catch its breath
9:42 Eastern churches united to Rome offerred possible recipe for reunion
10:31 Reflections on the history of Eastern Catholic churches. East West schism.
11:09 Maronite Church, monastic origins in mountains of Lebanon, explicitly reaffirmened its unity with the west in 1182 AD during crusader invasion.

Organized by the Metropolitan Andrey Sheptytsky Institute of Eastern Christian Studies
http://www.sheptytskyinstitute.ca

Co-sponsored by
The Near East Welfare Association
Centre for Research on the Second Vatican Council in Canada, St. Michael's College Toronto
Research on Vatican II and 21st Century Catholicism, Saint Paul University, Ottawa

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