http://ocanews.org/news/Updates7.7.09.html

• Insight Offered into Metropolitan Philip’s Perspective on the Antiochian Crisis

In an email to clergy of the Antiochian Western Rite, the acting Vicar-General Fr. Edward Hughes writes:

“Metropolitan Philip, our Bishop and Spiritual Father, as asked us not to involve ourselves in this issue in any way.  He has stated several times that he feels that this is a matter between the Patriarch, the Metropolitans and our Bishops.  Our involvement would be seen to be interference or meddling in what is not our business.  The specifics and details of the ministry of particular bishops is not the business of the other clergy who serve the same Metropolitan. 
 
Fr. Edward Hughes”

For those confused as to what is occurring here, ocanews.org has been a most enlightening source of information. So far I've learned that episcopal status can be reduced at will using forgery, Archdiocesan trustees are angry people, and it's ok to commune Muslims in the Antiochian Archdiocese.  All from Antiochian clergy themselves! Amazing... but even more amazing is that the Western riters, forever relegated to second-rate status due to their unique "privilege" of retaining Anglican and RC rituals and "traditions", don't have the right to speak. After all, it's "not their business"....

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Reader Joseph Suaiden

Administrator, St Eulalia Orthodox Mission, Bronx, NY
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