Uno
In 1054 this censure was a major and symbolic milestone in the division between Eastern and Western Christians
What is Excommunication?
Rejected by the Orthodox Churches, the Catholic Church teaches that the Pope exercises this authority over all dioceses and parishes in the world.
What is Universal Jurisdiction?
From the Latin translation of the Greek homoousios, meaning “one and the same essence,” used to describe three persons in the trinity.
What is Con-substantial?
He is considered first in honor among the patriarchs of Orthodox Churches
Who is the Ecumenical Patriarch?
Called the mass in the Western Church, this is the name for the Eucharistic Liturgy in the Eastern Churches
This term describes the truth that Christ is one divine Person with both a divine nature and a human nature
What is Hypostatic Union?
The doctrine that the Blessed Virgin Mary was preserved from all stain of Original Sin by a singular grace of God
What is the Immaculate Conception?
Greek for “image breaker,” this misguided movement to purify Christian practice was condemned at the Second Ecumenical Council of Nicaea
What is iconoclast?
Rejected by bishops of the East on the grounds of ecclesiastical governance, this addition to the Nicene Creed expresses the double procession of God the Holy Spirit as from God the Father and God the Son
What is Filioque?
Many of the debates of the early Church were over this subject, raising questions relating to whether or not Christ’s Death and Resurrection are able to save us from sins
What is Christology?
One of the recognized jurisdictions of the early Church, with Rome having primacy; also, the several jurisdictions of modern Orthodox Churches
What is a Patriarchate?
This type of special exemption by the Pope has allowed some married men to be ordained to the priesthood who had been Protestant clerics before they converted to Catholicism
What is an indult?
The liturgical actions associated with a sacrament; a liturgical tradition
What is a Rite?
The most used liturgical rite in Eastern Catholic Churches
What is Byzantine?
The two specific doctrines concerning the papacy, these doctrines are rejected by the Orth. Church
What is Papal infallibility and universal jurisdiction?
The Catholic Church still considers Eastern Orth. a Church because...
What is Apostolic Succession?
The disagreement concerning the Nicene Creed is about this term
What is Filioque?
The number of Ecumenical Councils accepted by both the East and the West
What is 7?
_____________is the only theological/semantics difference in beliefs concerning Mary's sin free life
What is original sin?
Debate about Mary's Assumption into Heaven involves these two different beliefs
What is Mary was alive or dead during Assumption?
The Eastern Orth. beliefs on marriage are that Divorce is __________________
What is acceptable up to two subsequent marriages?
Five major factors in the East/West divide are
What is culture, language, politics, church governance and theology?
Even with the liturgical differences, Catholics may receive __________________at Divine Liturgy to fulfill their Sunday obligation
What are sacraments?
Attempts to reunify Catholicism and Eastern Orth. have resulted in local churches breaking away from Orth. and coming back to unity with the Catholic Church. They are know as______________
What are Eastern Rites?
Whereas the faithful in the West recognized the Pope's primacy, the East came to see him as one of the several patriarchs having _________primacy rather than supreme primacy
What is equal?