Re: Catholic copyrights.

From: Kevin Grierson <kgrierson[_at_]wilsav.com>
Date: Wed, 01 Oct 2003 14:35:25 -0400

The term Uniate Catholic Church is generally used to denote an Eastern Rite Church that is nonetheless in communion with Rome, so its arguable that the Uniate Catholic Churches are, in fact, Roman Catholic Churches. At least, the trademark owner would consider them so.

This entry is from the Catholic Encyclopedia entry on Greek Churches:

Instead of United Greek Church, the term Uniat (or Uniate) Church is often used; and in like manner the word Uniats is used instead of United Greeks. These words are by no means synonymous. Uniat Church, or Uniats, has a much wider signification than United Greek Church or United Greeks, and embraces all the Eastern Churches in communion with Rome, but following another than the Latin rite, whether it be Byzantine, Armenian, Syrian, Chaldean, Maronite, or Coptic. The Uniat Church is therefore really synonymous with Eastern Churches united to Rome, and Uniats is synonymous with Eastern Christians united with Rome.

Full text at http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/06752a.htm.

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>>> mch[_at_]cix.compulink.co.uk 10/01/03 12:15PM >>> In-Reply-To: <list-1482670[_at_]cni.org>
Kevin Grierson writeth:

> As for the term "Catholic" by itself being "undefensable", I'd have to
> beg to differ. The vast majority of people entering a church in the
> United States (or, for that matter, in most of the rest of the world)
> that called itself "Catholic" would assume that they were, in fact,
> entering a Roman Catholic church, regardless of what other meanings the
> word "catholic" may have in other contexts, particularly if the priests
> wore vestments and followed the order of the mass.

Yabbut, the Uniate Catholic Church would disagree with you fairly vehemently, as would in a milder way part of the smells'n'bells current of the Anglicans over here in Anglia...

contd. alt.theology.nitpick ...

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