However, Grigory Bolgarin converted to Orthodoxy, and this conversion and his status as the Metropolitan of Kyiv and All Russia were recognized as early as1467 by Dio- nysius, the Patriarch of Constantinople, a
Y, Z. This is what’s called persuasive authority. Because you’re going to look at that and say, well, all things being equal, I should do the same thing they did. The law should be predictable. People should have an idea that if there’s a federal law, it’s going to...
Today Joe looks at the phenomenon of newer priests being more conservative and theologically orthodox, and progressive Catholicism’s failure to replicate itself… Transcript: Joe: Welcome back to Shameless Popery. I’m Joe Heschmeyer and if you follow politics at all, chances are you’ve heard...
Here Steven is by implicature using this sociological speculation about how authority structures arise to explain the development of Catholic ecclesial authority. This presupposes that Christ did not authorize the Apostles and instruct them to authorize successors. So here too Steven’s argument presuppos...
Michael Sandifer, I think you are using the term “fundamentalist” incorrectly. It derives from a divide within Protestant Christianity, which is unusually focused on the text of the Bible. In other faiths like Catholicism, Judaism & Islam (we might also add the Amish, though they started out...
in Orthodoxy and Catholicism, is the general keywords general uniformity between parishes. So I could get a change of venue. Let’s say something happens with the priest here or whatever, or I have kids and then there’s a new priest town with a family and there’s more family support ...