There is an Eastern Catholic Blog awards going on where you are able to make nominations. I will be interested in seeing who the nominations are since I see few Catholic blogs from an Eastern Catholic perspective. Especially interested in their "Funniest blog" category. Our Eastern Catholic brethren get very little press which is one reason why the term Roman Catholic annoys me as an umbrella term since the Church includes 24 Catholic Churches grouped into eight different rites with the Latin Church being the largest.
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Hey, just to point out that it’s an Eastern Christian blog award, not just Eastern Catholics. They take submissions from Eastern and Oriental Catholics as well as Orthodox.
Still, a worthy endeavor, and thanks for the link!
Please do submit some blog nominations. There is a good mix of Eastern Catholic and Orthodox so far and I’d like to see the flow of nominations continue. Such a high profile blog as yours posting on its existence will certainly help in that regard.
I also have hope that we’ll make it as a separate category on the next Catholic Blog Awards. The admins of that site have promised to consider it for next year. I don’t see a Byzantine, Chaldean, etc. winning otherwise.
Jeff, thanks very much for your reminder that the Roman Church is Catholic, but the Catholic Church is not Roman, although that’s the designation that we’ll read countless times this in the media this week as the Pope visits…and, unfortunately, on many Catholic blogs as well.
Your respectful and correct entry here is very much appreciated, and I’m grateful for it. Christ is risen!
With respect, and subject to correction by citation to written authority, I think Jeff and Fr. Richard are not correct on this point. To be “Roman” Catholic is to be in communion with the See of Rome, which the Eastern Catholics of course are. “Roman Catholic” and “Latin Catholic” are not interchangeable.
The claim that one can be “Catholic” without being “Roman Catholic” strikes me as too similar to the “branch theory” of the “Anglo-Catholics.” Having at one time tried to make a go of being in that absurd “communion,” I’m sensitive to potential duplications of its silly ideas.
On the contrary, I’ve always thought it was one of the singular glories of each and every one of the Eastern Catholic Churches that they are simultaneously (say) Ukrainian (or Ruthenian, or Byzantine, etc.,) AND Roman Catholic.
Cacciaguida,
I believe Roman Catholic as a term of art was never used until after the Reformation and Anglicans used it differentiate Roman Catholics from Anglo-Catholics as part of the branch theory.