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Logos A Journal of Eastern Christian Studies Revue des études de l’Orient chrétien Журнал східньохристиянських студій Volume 51, Nos. 3–4 (2010) This periodical is indexed in Religion Index One: Periodicals, the Index to Book Reviews in Religion, Religion Indexes: RIO/RIT/IBRR 1975– on CD- ROM, and in the ATLA Religion Database, published by the American Theological Library Association, 300 Wacker Drive, Suite 2100, Chicago, IL 60606, E-mail: [email protected], WWW: http://www.atla.com Logos: A Journal of Eastern Christian Studies Revue des études de l’Orient chrétien Журнал східньохристиянських студій A continuation of Logos: Periodicum Theologiae Trimestre (1950–1983) ISSN 0024–5895 Published by Metropolitan Andrey Sheptytsky Institute of Eastern Christian Studies and the Yorkton Province of the Ukrainian Redemptorists © 2010 Metropolitan Andrey Sheptytsky Institute of Eastern Christian Studies Editor-in-Chief: Peter Galadza (Sheptytsky Institute) Managing Editor: Stephen Wojcichowsky (Sheptytsky Institute) Editor: Adam DeVille Distribution: Lorraine Manley Layout & Design: Key-Co. 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Jillions ............................................................................... 307 Notes, Essays, Lectures Identity, Fracture and Exodus: The Disappearing Christians of the Holy Land Stephen W. Need............................................................................. 331 Logos: Vol. 51 (2010) Nos. 3–4 Table of Contents A Proposal for the Restoration of Gradual Initiation into the Church Culminating in Baptism-Chrismation During a Parish Sunday Liturgy Peter Galadza ................................................................................. 341 Byzantines, Ottomans, and Latins: Reconsidering the Politics Daniel Larison ................................................................................ 355 Book Reviews C. Paul Schroeder, St. Basil the Great: On Social Justice (William Mills) ......................................................................... 367 Alexander Schmemann, Journal (1973–1983) (Michael Plekon) ...................................................................... 369 Aidan Nichols, Rome and the Eastern Churches: a Study in Schism (Adam A.J. DeVille) ................................................................ 373 Frank J. Coppa, Politics and the Papacy in the Modern World (Athanasius McVay) ................................................................ 376 Hans van Loon, The Dyophysite Christology of Cyril of Alexandria (Lois Farag) .............................................................................. 380 Zoe Knox, Russian Society and the Orthodox Church: Religion in Russia After Communism (Nadieszda Kizenko) ................................................................ 384 Richard Price and Mary Whitby, eds., Chalcedon in Context. Church Councils 400–700 (Stephen W. Need) ................................................................... 389 Norman Russell, Fellow Workers with God: Orthodox Thinking on Theosis (Edith M. Humphrey) ............................................................... 392 Stefanos Alexopoulos, The Presanctified Liturgy in the Byzantine Rite: A Comparative Analysis of Its Origins, Evolution, and Structural Components (Peter Galadza) ......................................................................... 396 iv Logos: Vol. 51 (2010) Nos. 3–4 Table of Contents Jaroslav Z. Skira and Michael S. Attridge, eds., In God’s Hands: Essays on the Church and Ecumenism in Honour of Michael A. Fahey, S.J. (Catherine E. Clifford) ............................................................. 401 Lucian N. Leustean, ed. Eastern Christianity and the Cold War, 1945–91 (Lucien J. Frary) ...................................................................... 404 Vlad Naumescu, Modes of Religiosity in Eastern Christianity: Religious Processes and Social Change in Ukraine (Myroslaw Tataryn) ................................................................. 407 Irfan A. Omar, ed. A Muslim View of Christianity: Essays on Dialogue by Mahmoud Ayoub (Theodore Pulcini) ................................................................... 411 Briefly Noted ............................................................................ 419 Contributors ............................................................................. 443 The Metropolitan Andrey Sheptytsky Institute of Eastern Christian Studies Academic Programs, Resources, Books v Logos: A Journal of Eastern Christian Studies Vol. 51 (2010) Nos. 3–4, pp. 219–228 Editorial Married Eastern Catholic Priests: The Continuing Saga of Identifying “Latin” with “Catholic” The recent Synod on the Church in the Middle East again brought attention to the question of optional celibacy in the Eastern Catholic Churches. Almost fifty years after Vatican II, many Catholic authorities still resist official Church teaching on the question. (Apparently, “Cafeteria Catholicism” reigns among “conservatives” as well.) Canon 373 of the Code of Ca- nons of the Eastern [Catholic] Churches, promulgated by Pope John Paul II in 1990, asserts: “the hallowed practice of married clerics in the primitive Church and in the tradition of the Eastern Churches throughout the ages is to be held in honour.” Some authorities are inclined to suggest that the canon ap- plies only to “Eastern territories.” That is erroneous. Nowhere is that even hinted in the legislation and, more importantly, it could not be. Official Catholic teaching insists that all “rites” are equal. Orientalium ecclesiarum 3 reads: “These individual Churches, whether of the East or the West … are of equal dig- nity, so that none of them is superior to the others as regards rite and they enjoy the same rights and are under the same ob- ligations, also in respect of preaching the Gospel to the whole world (cf. Mark 16: 15) under the guidance of the Roman Pontiff.” Below I shall return to “preaching the Gospel to the whole world” and “the guidance of the Roman Pontiff.” Some have attempted to demonstrate that mandatory conti- nence after ordination – which would naturally lead to man- datory celibacy – is the authentic (“apostolic”) tradition of the Eastern Churches. That eccentric thesis has been refuted; inter alia one can consult an extensive study published on the pages 220 Peter Galadza of our own journal, Logos, in 1993 (J. Kevin Coyle, “Recent Views on the Origin of Clerical Celibacy”). If the thesis were true, millions of children born into Eastern Christian presbyte- ral families for centuries before and after the Council in Trullo (691–692 AD) were/are the result of indifference towards “au- thentic” Church tradition. (Trullo, according to proponents of the aforementioned thesis, attempted to restore the “apostolic” tradition.) For those unaware of the consequences of the disregard for optional celibacy among Eastern Catholics, the following in- formation may be helpful: First, in France, Ireland, Italy, Spain and Portugal, married Ukrainian Catholic priests are required to leave their wives – and children – in Ukraine, or other parts of Europe. (There are various “arrangements” and “exceptions” that are sometimes “negotiated,” but these simply highlight how inanity engenders deception.) The late Cardinal Lustiger insisted that he did not want to see the celibacy debate re-opened among Roman Ca- tholics in France. The presence of married Eastern Catholic priests would apparently do that. (More on this below.) Note, incidentally, that the aforementioned countries are now domi- cile for millions of Eastern Catholics forced to seek livelihoods outside