A plea to interpret Verbum resources broadly - yes this belongs under Orthodox.
The Easter Mass in St. Peter's square had a sung sermon by the Pontificio Collegio Russo di Santa Teresa del Bambin Gesù which according to the broadcast trains both Orthodox and Catholic priests. While I am aware that many Orthodox define themselves as "not Catholic" and do not want to be "Westernized" (an understandable position), a contemporary Catholic theologian Aidan Nichols, O.P. gives the following advice to Catholics:
"For the Orthodox churches are churches in the apostolic succession; they are bearers of the apostolic Tradition, witnesses to apostolic faith, worship and order – even though they are also, and at the same time, unhappily sundered from the prima sedes, the first see. Their Fathers and other ecclesiastical writers, their liturgical texts and practices, their iconographic tradition, these remain loci theologici – authoritative sources – to which the Catholic theologian can and must turn in his or her intellectual construal of Catholic Christianity. . . .To put the same point in another way: the separated Western communities have Christian traditions – in the plural, with a small 't' – which may well be worthy of the Catholic theologian's interest and respect. But only the Orthodox are, along with the Catholic Church, bearers of Holy Tradition – in the singular, with a capital 'T', that is, of the Gospel in its plenary organirc transmission through the entirety of the life – credal, doxological, ethical – of Christ's Church."
Logos needs to recognize that while some works are polemics against others, the amount of shared materials far exceeds the separate materials. In my studies, I was taught the following rule of thumb - for Bible studies look to the Lutheran presses, for liturgy look to the Anglican (and Orthodox) presses, for theology look to the Catholic (and Orthodox) presses.
Therefore, I would like for the Orthodox users of Logos to strongly support the inclusion of Orthodox materials in any store fronts or blogs labeled Catholic. Even if you are an Orthodox who defines themself as "not Catholic", the increased market exposure is good for your presses and for the overall availability of Orthodox resources in Logos. In short, there's no need to think in terms of "ecumenical" - it is simply in your own best interest.
Orthodox Bishop Alfeyev: "To be a theologian means to have experience of a personal encounter with God through prayer and worship."; Orthodox proverb: "We know where the Church is, we do not know where it is not."
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Absolutely, MJ. Even if they wouldn't consider themselves Catholic, they definitely would consider themselves catholic, a term that must take some account of those larger, converging streams.
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This Catholic supports MJ's plea and occasionally reads books from St. Vladimir's Seminary Press.
“The trouble is that everyone talks about reforming others and no one thinks about reforming himself.” St. Peter of Alcántara
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Totally agree, Surely we don't need any more than the two software tools - one for liturgical churches and one for non-liturgical. Within each of these there can be options to support different denomination streams, particularly the liturgical lke the option for multiple lectionaries.
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