Chaldean patriarch: Vatican officials do not understand Eastern churches
November 06, 2025
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CWN Editor's Note: Chaldean Catholic Patriarch Louis Sako has complained that Vatican officials do not have a proper understanding of the Eastern Catholic churches.
In conversation with The Tablet, the Iraqi prelate said that staff members of the Dicastery for Eastern Churches “should know that they are there to serve the churches.” He said that Vatican officials do not show proper respect for the status of the Eastern Catholic patriarchs, who “precede all bishops” in hierarchical rank.
Cardinal Sako said that Vatican officials lack “practical exprience” with the Eastern churches, so that: “When they speak, they speak in occidental speech.”
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