The reason is mostly pastoral. The Orthodox Church is by far the largest in the Holy Land and they are on the old calendar. And there are quite a few mixed marriages which creates issues around major holidays like Christmas and Easter. This excludes Bethlehem and Jerusalem where you have a lot of pilgrims on the papal calendar, so we are not talking about all that many parishes. Still it is an interesting development.
Details here.
Suffer the Children
11 hours ago
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Pizzaballa? OK...
Glad to see this, on the principle that we should be flexible where we can be- and Catholics can be flexible regarding the calendar.
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