10. He was concurrently named ordinary for Eastern Catholics in Argentina, who lacked their own prelate. So he can, presumably, celebrate the Divine Liturgy of Saint John Chrysostom.Taylor Marshall: 10 Facts about Pope Francis
Perhaps? Maybe the roll was only administrative.
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Ukrainian Catholic Patriarch: Pope Francis "knows our Tradition very well, as well as our Liturgy."
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All Roman Pontiffs are by nature "Pontificus Maximus", supreme pontiff. Thus they have ecclesiastical jurisdiction over the whole of the vatican faithful in the west and east and can administer the sacraments in both rites. John Paul II has has celebrated the Divine Liturgy using the Liturgy of John Chrysostom, as well as John XXIII, and others. On very special circumstances priests (and in this point bishops) are given bi-ritual status which gives them permission to not only say the liturgy according to their rite, but also according to one of the other 38 rites of the church. For example Mitchell Pacwa of the Society of Jesus (a Jesuit) (host of EWTN's Threshold of Hope), was ordained a Roman rite priest, but also has bi-ritual status and can preside over a Melkite Liturgy as well. Furthermore people can change their rites as well, for example a friend of mine who's parents raised him in the nearest perish to them (a Byzantine rite), is considered a Byzantine rite catholic (even though his parents are Roman rite), because of the church he received the sacraments in as a child. He entered the seminary and is now a Byzantine rite priest, his wife is Ukrainian, and his parents changed their rite as they still go to the same church he was raised in. You call your self catholic, but you sure don't know much about your church, quite sad really.
Pretty pathetic that I, a hardline protestant evangelical knows more about your church than you do.
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