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Leo XIV Eliminates the Filioque with a Footnote

Pope Leo XIV has issued a new Apostolic Letter titled In unitate fidei (“In the Unity of Faith”), calling Christians to renewed "dialogue" and "unity".

Released on Sunday to mark the 1,700th anniversary of the Council of Nicaea, the document contains the usual word salad about "shared foundations" of the Christian faith. Next Friday, Leo XIV and the controversial Orthodox Patriarch Bartholomew will visit Nicaea, near today’s Iznik in Turkey.

Credo in pluralitatem Ecclesiarum

In the new letter, Leo XIV writes that Christian unity is not about “returning” to the past, but about “an ecumenism that looks to the future, that seeks reconciliation through dialogue.”

He even speaks - contrary to the Faith in the ONE Church founded by Christ - of a “current status quo of the diversity of Churches and ecclesial communities.”

Leo XIV continues: “We must therefore leave behind theological controversies that have lost their raison d’être in order to develop a common understanding and, even more, a common prayer to the Holy Spirit, so that he may gather us all together in one faith and one love.”

The Silent Disappearance of the Filioque

The Apostolic Letter presents the Nicene-Constantinopolitan Creed as prayed by the schismatic Orthodox, omitting the Filioque: “I believe in the Holy Spirit, the Lord, the giver of life, who proceeds from the Father, who with the Father and the Son is adored and glorified, who has spoken through the prophets.”

The manipulative Footnote 10 says that “the statement ‘and proceeds from the Father and the Son (Filioque)’ is not found in the text of Constantinople; it was inserted into the Latin Creed by Pope Benedict VIII in 1014 and is a subject of Orthodox–Catholic dialogue.”

Necessary History Left out by the Footnote

Three synods of Toledo (400, 447, 589) approved the Creed stating that the Holy Spirit “proceeds from the Father and the Son.” It was ordered to be sung in the liturgy, becoming standard in the Mozarabic rite. From there it spread into Gallican liturgy. In 809, Charlemagne convened a synod in Aachen, Germany where theologians—especially Theodulf of Orléans—defended the Filioque as an integral part of the Christian faith.

Rome had the same doctrine but did not pray the Creed during Mass at all. In 1014, Emperor Henry II came to Rome to be crowned and was surprised that no Creed was sung at Mass there. Therefore, Pope Benedict VIII introduced the Nicene Creed with the Filioque into the Roman liturgy.

The theology behind the Filioque

The Filioque remains the necessary and fitting expression of the inner relationship of the Holy Trinity: the Son receives the entire divine essence from the Father, including the Father’s eternal spiration of the Holy Spirit.

Christ indicated this in John 16, stating that the Spirit “will take from what is Mine.”

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Proof of the filioque: The Son proceeds from the Father as His Word, and the Holy Ghost as Love: love must proceed from a word, for we do not love anything unless we apprehend it by a mental conception
Now there cannot be in God any relations opposed to each other, except relations of origin, as proved above (q.28, a.44). And opposite relations of origin are to be understood as of a ‘principle’ and of what is ‘from the principle.’ Therefore we must conclude that it is necessary to say that either the Son is from the Holy Ghost; which no one says; or that the Holy Ghost is from the Son, as we confess. Furthermore, the order of the procession of each one agrees with this conclusion. For it was said above (a.27, a.2,4; q.28, a.4), that the Son proceeds by the way of the intellect as Word, and the Holy Ghost by way of the will as Love. Now love must proceed from a word. For we do not love anything unless we apprehend it by a mental conception. Hence also in this way it is manifest that the Holy Ghost proceeds from the Son. (Saint Thomas Aquinas. Summa Theologica, I, q. 36, a.2 sol)

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The great schism of the East began with the negation of the precedence of the Holy Spirit from the Father and the Son…
In truth, the question of the “origin” of the Holy Spirit, in the Trinitarian life of the only God, has been the object of long and multiple theological reflections, based on the Holy Scripture. In the West, Saint Ambrose, in his De Spiritu Sancto, and Saint Augustine, in the work De Trinitate, gave a great contribution toward the clarification of this problem. […] However, the Eastern brethren stuck to the formula of the Council of Constantinople (381) pure and simply, moreover because the Council of Calcedonia (451) had confirmed its “ecumenical” character (though in fact it was almost solely bishops of the East who had taken part in it). In this way, the Western and Latin Filioque became, in the following centuries, an occasion for schism, already brought about by Photius (882), but consummated and extended to almost all of the Christian East in the year 1054. The Eastern Churches separated from Rome until today profess in the symbol of the faith “in the Holy Spirit who proceeds from the Father” without making mention of the Filioque, while in the West we expressly state that the Holy Spirit “proceeds from the Father and the Son.” (John Paul II. General audience, no. 5, November 7, 1990)

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Catechism of the Catholic Church…
judges Francis’ idea that the Orthodox are no longer schismatics
The Creed confesses the filioque to indicate that the Holy Spirit proceeds ‘from the Father and the Son’
The Latin tradition of the Creed confesses that the Spirit proceeds from the Father and the Son (filioque). the Council of Florence in 1438 explains: ‘The Holy Spirit is eternally from Father and Son; He has his nature and subsistence at once (simul) from the Father and the Son. He proceeds eternally from both as from one principle and through one spiration… And, since the Father has through generation given to the only-begotten Son everything that belongs to the Father, except being Father, the Son has also eternally from the Father, from whom he is eternally born, that the Holy Spirit proceeds from the Son’ (Council of Florence: DS 1300-1301). (Catechism of the Catholic Church, no. 246)
Following an ancient Latin and Alexandrian tradition, Pope Saint Leo I already confessed the filioque dogmatically in 447
The affirmation of the filioque does not appear in the Creed confessed in 381 at Constantinople. But Pope Saint Leo I, following an ancient Latin and Alexandrian tradition, had already confessed it dogmatically in 447 even before Rome, in 451 at the Council of Chalcedon, came to recognize and receive the Symbol of 381. The use of this formula in the Creed was gradually admitted into the Latin liturgy (between the eighth and eleventh centuries). The introduction of the filioque into the Niceno-Constantinopolitan Creed by the Latin liturgy constitutes moreover, even today, a point of disagreement with the Orthodox Churches. (Catechism of the Catholic Church, no. 247)
About the Holy Spirit, it is legitimate to say that He comes forth ‘from the Father and the Son’ (Western tradition) or ‘from the Father through the Son’ (Eastern tradition); but heretical to say ‘from the Father alone’
At the outset the Eastern tradition expresses the Father’s character as first origin of the Spirit. By confessing the Spirit as he ‘who proceeds from the Father’, it affirms that he comes from the Father through the Son (AG 2). The Western tradition expresses first the consubstantial communion between Father and Son, by saying that the Spirit proceeds from the Father and the Son (filioque). It says this, ‘legitimately and with good reason’ (Council of Florence: DS 1302), for the eternal order of the divine persons in their consubstantial communion implies that the Father, as ‘the principle without principle’ (Council of Florence: DS 1331), is the first origin of the Spirit, but also that as Father of the only Son, he is, with the Son, the single principle from which the Holy Spirit proceeds (cf. Council of Lyons II: DS 850). This legitimate complementarity, provided it does not become rigid, does not affect the identity of faith in the reality of the same mystery confessed. (Catechism of the Catholic Church, no. 248)
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yuca2111

So insulting the Holy Virgin isn’t enough, proclaiming we no longer have the entire truth... now this debacle.

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sp2 . .

I just read the open letter - here is what I found
"This development led to the formulation of the article of faith concerning the Holy Spirit at the First Council of Constantinople in 381. Consequently, the Creed took the name “Nicene-Constantinopolitan Creed,” and now states: “I believe in the Holy Spirit, the Lord, the giver of life, who proceeds from the Father, who with the Father and the Son is adored and glorified, who has spoken through the prophets.” [10]
At the Council of Chalcedon in 451, the Council of Constantinople was recognized as ecumenical, and the Nicene-Constantinopolitan Creed was declared to be universally binding. [11] It therefore constituted a bond of unity between the East and the West. In the 16 century, it was also upheld by the ecclesial communities that arose from the Reformation. The Nicene-Constantinopolitan Creed is thus the common profession of all Christian traditions.
Apostolic Letter In Unitate Fidei on the 1700th …

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jose g rodriguez

"in unitate fidei." In unity with whom? Clearly, in unity with the conciliar church, now called synodal church.
Not with the Catholic Church.

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mccallansteve

How much more evidence can Leo give us that he is a heretic and shares the masonic goal of one world religion?

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sp2 . .

The next leader of the Roman Catholic Church will be " Patriarch of All Rome "
not a Pope.
Pope Francis officially declared himself, " Patriarch of the West"
Which might be a good thing - We can have:
Patriarch of all North America and the Latin Rite
Patriarch of all Fag Germany and Austria
Patriarch of ALL FAG CHICAGO
Patriarch of All Africa
Patriarch of all Indigenous South America
Oh, by the way,
We already have a Patriarch of Jerusalem
How bout that as prophesy of the Last Pope
And something to consider - At the moment we do have a big fat schism going on in the Orthodox Church -
Moscow vs Greece

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eva333

Don't worry, very few Catholic hierarchs will protest—they are either blind, deaf, and mute, or they belong to the Prevost-Bergoglio mafia.

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john333

So what next no purgatory and no fault divorce?

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sp2 . .

@john333 We will start having 40 day fasts before Lent and Advent,
Along with required Wednesday and Friday fasts.
Not to mention, two - three hour liturgies.

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la verdad prevalece

Anathema sit Prevost

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foward

Destroyers of faith.

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foward

He said: "This does not imply an ecumenism that attempts to return to the state prior to the divisions, nor is it a mutual recognition of the current status quo of the diversity of Churches and ecclesial communities."
But bad too.
The rest, the Filioque issue, very bad.

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Father Karl A Claver

This is illicit, invalid, and illegal. With a stroke of a pen one cannot undo Church doctrine.

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sp2 . .

Did he?
Did you read the letter?
Apostolic Letter In Unitate Fidei on the 1700th …

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