Articles Concerning Union With The Roman Church
[These articles were accepted by the hierarchy of the Church in Kiev in three languages: Ukrainian, Polish, and Latin. It is on this basis that the Church of Kiev is in communion with the Roman Catholic Church.
The articles frequently refer to the King of Poland. The function of the King of Poland vis-a-vis the Greek-Catholic Church were assumed by the Austrian Emperor. As there is no longer a King of Emperor, and the Greek-Catholic Church is certainly not state-supported in Ukraine, these functions revert to the synod or lapse entirely.]
>inscription< We require prior guarantees of these articles from the Romans before we enter into union with the Roman Church.
1. Since there is a quarrel between the Romans and Greeks about the procession of the Holy Spirit, which greatly impede unity really for no other reason than that we do not wish to understand one another - we ask that we should not be compelled to any other creed but that we should remain with that which was handed down to us in the Holy Scriptures, in the Gospel, and in the writings of the holy Greek Doctors, that is, that the Holy Spirit proceeds, not from two sources and not by a double procession, but from one orgin, from the Father through the Son.
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5. We shall not debate about purgatory, but we entrust ourselves to the teaching of the Holy Church.
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9. That the marriages of priests remain intact, except for bigamists.
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Full text available at:
http://www.winnipeg.freenet.mb.ca/iphome/u/ukrcath/document.htmlJoe Prokopchak
" Lord, Jesus Christ, Son of God, have mercy on me a sinner ".
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