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.
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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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