
How Eastern & Western Christians Can Mutually Enrich Each Other (Fr. Jason Charron) | Ep. 303
Pints With Aquinas
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What Happened to Eastern Catholics in the Sixties?
East catholics were increasingly latinized, so the tradition of married priesthood was suppressed. By the 19 twenties, a document coming out of rome said that eastern catholics couldn't be having their married priests come over and serve in north america or abroad. And then you have this great thing that happens in the sixties with our patriarch, joseph slippe. He's this moses figure who leads his people out of captivity. You're not a people in the shadows any more. You are the church. That way he was able to get around this ruling. But everyone knew what was happening. This letter from pope pius the eleventh says: "This is
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