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		<title>Two Paths to Two Western Rites</title>
		<link>http://westernritecritic.wordpress.com/2008/06/15/two-paths-to-two-western-rites/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 15 Jun 2008 19:58:13 +0000</pubDate>
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				<category><![CDATA[-- What is Western?]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[apostasy]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[A lot of participants on this site are supporters of Western rites, various Western rite initiatives, or at least some hypothetical restoration of a Western Rite environment in Holy Orthodoxy. We agree with some of them in some respects at least some of the time, if not most of them most all the time. It [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=westernritecritic.wordpress.com&blog=2540221&post=226&subd=westernritecritic&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Western Rites and the &#8220;Episcopalianizing&#8221; of Orthodoxy</title>
		<link>http://westernritecritic.wordpress.com/2008/06/09/western-rites-and-the-episcopalianizing-of-orthodoxy/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 09 Jun 2008 14:39:18 +0000</pubDate>
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				<category><![CDATA[-- Anglican]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[The Marcionites would be happy with what the Western Rite enthusiasts have been trying to achieve. A church within a church, a confession within a confession. This pattern &#8211; this template &#8211; is the gnostic/masonic/revolutionary template from of old. It creates &#8220;unity in diversity&#8221; by creating within a religious body another religious body that cannot [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=westernritecritic.wordpress.com&blog=2540221&post=223&subd=westernritecritic&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Did you know you&#8217;re &#8220;Byzantine Orthodox&#8221;?</title>
		<link>http://westernritecritic.wordpress.com/2008/06/09/did-you-know-youre-byzantine-orthodox/</link>
		<comments>http://westernritecritic.wordpress.com/2008/06/09/did-you-know-youre-byzantine-orthodox/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 09 Jun 2008 04:44:03 +0000</pubDate>
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				<category><![CDATA[-- What is Western?]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[byzantine orthodox]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[No, I don&#8217;t know what it means either. Nor am I aware that the various synods of the world have declared themselves to be any such thing as &#8220;Byzantine Orthodox&#8221;. But that&#8217;s what Western Rite enthusiasts are calling you. It&#8217;s because they want to reformulate Holy Orthodoxy into a religious system defined by the selection [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=westernritecritic.wordpress.com&blog=2540221&post=220&subd=westernritecritic&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>What do Critics Really Think?</title>
		<link>http://westernritecritic.wordpress.com/2008/05/19/what-do-critics-really-think/</link>
		<comments>http://westernritecritic.wordpress.com/2008/05/19/what-do-critics-really-think/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 19 May 2008 16:18:32 +0000</pubDate>
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				<category><![CDATA[-- Phyletism]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Many of the enthusiasts for current Western Rite initiatives have been saying for some time that the primary concerns of those questioning the wisdom of such initiatives were simple prejudice or unfamiliarity. In short, they have, in their rhetoric, reduced all criticism to self-refuting categories. They have not listened.
Poll results:

The results of our poll clearly [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=westernritecritic.wordpress.com&blog=2540221&post=218&subd=westernritecritic&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Groark on Devotional Abuses</title>
		<link>http://westernritecritic.wordpress.com/2008/05/16/groark-on-devotional-abuses/</link>
		<comments>http://westernritecritic.wordpress.com/2008/05/16/groark-on-devotional-abuses/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 16 May 2008 05:31:21 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[&#8220;Novenas, rosaries, holy hours, statue crownings, (are) prepared and offered by various religious  orders, and offered to the people, while the offices of matins or vespers are never heard in parish  churches. Whether these and numerous other abuses will be corrected by the decrees of the  (Second Vatican) Council is a most important question . [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=westernritecritic.wordpress.com&blog=2540221&post=242&subd=westernritecritic&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Maybe the Rite isn&#8217;t the Core of the Problem Anyway?</title>
		<link>http://westernritecritic.wordpress.com/2008/05/15/maybe-the-rite-isnt-the-problem/</link>
		<comments>http://westernritecritic.wordpress.com/2008/05/15/maybe-the-rite-isnt-the-problem/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 15 May 2008 22:48:22 +0000</pubDate>
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				<category><![CDATA[Questions]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[eastern rite]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[orthodox]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[the Antiochian Archdiocese]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Would it be fair to say that many of the problems plaguing Western Rite initiatives are endemic to their parent jurisdictions? Would something like the following chart be a fair way to compare these problems?



Eastern Rite
Western Rite


Includes some WR people who were pressured to &#8220;Byzantinize&#8221;
Includes many converts who were pressured to &#8220;go Western Rite&#8221;


Sometimes treating [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=westernritecritic.wordpress.com&blog=2540221&post=217&subd=westernritecritic&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Disaffection and the Social Psychology of Conversion</title>
		<link>http://westernritecritic.wordpress.com/2008/05/15/disaffection-and-the-social-psychology-of-conversion/</link>
		<comments>http://westernritecritic.wordpress.com/2008/05/15/disaffection-and-the-social-psychology-of-conversion/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 15 May 2008 22:28:50 +0000</pubDate>
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				<category><![CDATA[-- Catechesis & Conversion]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[disaffection and the children of converts]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[religious psychology]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[religious sociology]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[the sociology of the disaffected]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[western orthodoxy]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Well phrased insight here: &#8220;&#8230;how does the next generation build on the sense of being “disaffected?” It seems the WR in its present form liturgically attempts to even amplify that sense&#8230;&#8221; &#8211; Publican123 from [these comments]
We&#8217;d be interested in your comments. If you haven&#8217;t yet cast your Western Rite poll vote, that&#8217;s still open, too.
 [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=westernritecritic.wordpress.com&blog=2540221&post=216&subd=westernritecritic&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>St. Raphael on Anglicanism</title>
		<link>http://westernritecritic.wordpress.com/2008/05/08/st-raphael-on-anglicanism/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 08 May 2008 06:05:07 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Pastoral Letter of Bishop Raphael
To My Beloved Clergy and Laity of the Syrian Greek-Orthodox
Catholic Church in North America:
Greetings in Christ Jesus, Our Incarnate Lord and God.
My Beloved Brethren:
Two years ago, while I was Vice-President and member of the Anglican and Eastern Orthodox Churches Union, being moved with compassion for my children in the Holy Orthodox [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=westernritecritic.wordpress.com&blog=2540221&post=241&subd=westernritecritic&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Giveaway</title>
		<link>http://westernritecritic.wordpress.com/2008/05/07/giveaway/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 07 May 2008 00:51:34 +0000</pubDate>
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		<title>Participate in a Poll</title>
		<link>http://westernritecritic.wordpress.com/2008/05/02/participate-in-a-poll/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 02 May 2008 17:09:43 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[



What is the most significant problem of current Western Rite initiatives?
Click an answer below to vote:
1. Western/European Phyletism (attitudes of American or Western cultural/ethnic supremacy)
2. Problems of Liturgics &#38; Liturgical License
3. Illicit Devotional Pieties (Sacred Heart, Rosary, Stations of the Cross)
4. Challenges of Catechesis &#38; Conversion
5. Challenges of Ecclesiology &#38; Ecumenism
6. Determining what&#8217;s really &#8220;Western&#8221;
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		<title>When Proof Texts Go Wild</title>
		<link>http://westernritecritic.wordpress.com/2008/04/28/209/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 28 Apr 2008 13:17:54 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[It&#8217;s always easy to justify one&#8217;s personal agenda for the Church and Orthodox religion by creative placement of texts. Recently, for instance, we read a passage from [this blog] which makes a case for emotionalism in Orthodox pieties (something rare and generally foreign to our experience). It does this by presenting a lengthy description of [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=westernritecritic.wordpress.com&blog=2540221&post=209&subd=westernritecritic&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Give Evil No Place</title>
		<link>http://westernritecritic.wordpress.com/2008/04/15/give-evil-no-place/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 15 Apr 2008 16:42:09 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[It&#8217;s worth reminding ourselves, as we do periodically, that we must avoid the blindness that comes and delusion that precedes belittling and ridiculing our brother. For all such offenses, we ask forgiveness. And to any who are caught by the demon that inspires these things, we say &#8220;save yourselves, and pray for us, so we [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=westernritecritic.wordpress.com&blog=2540221&post=208&subd=westernritecritic&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Meditation during prayer</title>
		<link>http://westernritecritic.wordpress.com/2008/04/14/meditation-during-prayer/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 14 Apr 2008 15:17:27 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[We recently read a discussion on meditation &#8220;prior&#8221; to prayer, which included this: &#8220;I suggested meditation on the mystery under consideration prior to prayer, precisely as a means to &#8220;warm up the heart&#8221; as recommended by, e.g., St. Theophan the Recluse.&#8221;
Since we don&#8217;t know exactly what is meant by this discussion, we offer some theses [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=westernritecritic.wordpress.com&blog=2540221&post=206&subd=westernritecritic&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Enemies, Opponents, and Brothers in Christ</title>
		<link>http://westernritecritic.wordpress.com/2008/04/10/enemies-opponents-and-brothers-in-christ/</link>
		<comments>http://westernritecritic.wordpress.com/2008/04/10/enemies-opponents-and-brothers-in-christ/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 10 Apr 2008 18:51:47 +0000</pubDate>
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		<category><![CDATA[-- Pan-Orthodoxy]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Recently a Christian speaker stood before an audience desiring to gain acceptance for a path that conflicted quite clearly with their tradition. The technique he used is tried and true. He began to describe how there&#8217;s a difference between crazy and not crazy. Always he drew associations with his theoretical opponents and craziness, always with [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=westernritecritic.wordpress.com&blog=2540221&post=205&subd=westernritecritic&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>The First Denomination within Orthodoxy</title>
		<link>http://westernritecritic.wordpress.com/2008/04/09/the-first-denomination-within-orthodoxy/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 09 Apr 2008 03:55:31 +0000</pubDate>
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				<category><![CDATA[-- What is Western?]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Questions]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[The Protestant impulse may be loosely defined as that tendency toward fragmentation over the desires, interests, beliefs, persuasions, passions, etc. etc. of religious adherents. There is substantial agreement on &#8220;the Faith&#8221; itself, but the very process being performed upon the Faith reduces it to a system of &#8216;essentials&#8217; which are contrasted with non-essentials. In other [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=westernritecritic.wordpress.com&blog=2540221&post=203&subd=westernritecritic&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Guest Article: Sacred Body Parts</title>
		<link>http://westernritecritic.wordpress.com/2008/03/24/guest-article-sacred-body-parts/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 24 Mar 2008 22:57:53 +0000</pubDate>
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				<category><![CDATA[-- Sacred Heart]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[body of Christ]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[heterodox pieties]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[This article is a comment contribution by its author.
THE ERROR OF THE SACRED HEART DEVOTION
&#8211; Monk Aidan Keller (c) 2008 St. John Cassian Press
Devotion to the Sacred Heart of Jesus is a popular thing in the Roman Catholic Church of today. Frequently we see depictions of the Heart, and in Roman Catholic prayer books there [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=westernritecritic.wordpress.com&blog=2540221&post=200&subd=westernritecritic&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Latinizations Revisited</title>
		<link>http://westernritecritic.wordpress.com/2008/03/16/latinizations-revisited/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 16 Mar 2008 18:30:38 +0000</pubDate>
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				<category><![CDATA[Liturgics]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[historic western orthodox]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[innovation]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[melkites]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[renovationism]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Historic Western Orthodoxy vs. Heterodox Innovation
This article is a followup to Melkites Define Latinizations from March 1st, and is actually a comment appended to that article by Monk Aidan.
Let’s see how these practices compare to the liturgical practice of Orthodox Christians of the West before the Schism.
1. Unmarried priesthood
They had that, though many exceptions were [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=westernritecritic.wordpress.com&blog=2540221&post=199&subd=westernritecritic&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>The Golden Calf</title>
		<link>http://westernritecritic.wordpress.com/2008/03/15/the-golden-calf/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 15 Mar 2008 02:44:00 +0000</pubDate>
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				<category><![CDATA[-- Sacred Heart]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[-- Stations of the Cross]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[It is good to see Ben Johnson reading our blog so frequently. He&#8217;s just run a nice set of articles: 1, 2, editorializing on our work (not the first time, either; (unfortunately, the canards and straw men make a real discussion impossible. It&#8217;s always easier to defeat an argument if you mis-characterize it in advance).
In [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=westernritecritic.wordpress.com&blog=2540221&post=198&subd=westernritecritic&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Taboo Topics: The Material Fast?</title>
		<link>http://westernritecritic.wordpress.com/2008/03/14/taboo-topics-the-material-fast/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 14 Mar 2008 04:47:17 +0000</pubDate>
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		<category><![CDATA[fasting]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[A priest recently began Lent with a sermon on keeping the fast. It seems like people are afraid to talk about that, as though the prohibitions against fasting before men, or against judging the brother who eats, somehow forbid discussion of it, or stating what the Church requires. It is popular to read the sermons [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=westernritecritic.wordpress.com&blog=2540221&post=197&subd=westernritecritic&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Neoconservatism is Satanism</title>
		<link>http://westernritecritic.wordpress.com/2008/03/10/neoconservatism-is-satanism/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 10 Mar 2008 03:38:12 +0000</pubDate>
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				<category><![CDATA[-- Catechesis & Conversion]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[An initial foray into this area of concern:




Neoconservatism is a blight upon the religious mind. Every fundamental tenet of neoconservatism is contrary to the Holy Gospel.
When justifying one&#8217;s advocacy of political policies: it is popular to quote Holy Scripture and the fathers selectively, and to pick and choose bits of our history while neglecting the [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=westernritecritic.wordpress.com&blog=2540221&post=195&subd=westernritecritic&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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