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Friendship with Jesus
Through Baptism, we are incorporated into the Mystical Body of Christ. The Sacraments direct and sustain us on our journey to our heavenly home. Our friendship with Christ is inseparable from friendship with the members of His Mystical Body.
Constantinople, New Rome?
By attempting to raise the see of Constantinople to near-equality with Rome, the so-called twenty-eighth canon of the Council of Chalcedon became one of the root causes of the great Eastern schism which has lasted to this day. But at the time, Pope St. Leo the Great successfully commanded Constantinople to renounce its attempt to lord it over the other Eastern churches.
Constantinople, New Rome?
By attempting to raise the see of Constantinople to near-equality with Rome, the so-called twenty-eighth canon of the Council of Chalcedon became one of the root causes of the great Eastern schism which has lasted to this day. But at the time, Pope St. Leo the Great successfully commanded Constantinople to renounce its attempt to lord it over the other Eastern churches.
Cardinal Vesco’s contempt for the missionary martyrs
The cardinal's statement could be interpreted as: so obvious as to be meaningless; or so ignorant as to be culpable; or so obtuse as to be insulting to all the saints and martyrs of the Church. Or all of the above.
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