The Filioque was recently removed from the Nicene Creed in the Eastern Rite church where I attend Mass. Can I still continue to go there?
The expression Filioque refers to the Catholic doctrine that the Holy Ghost proceeds from the Son as well as from the Father, and not just from the Father alone, as the schismatic Orthodox teach. It is true that this expression was not in the original Nicene Creed (325) and was added into the Creed in the Western Church progressively, starting in Spain at the third Council of Toledo in 589, and then in the Frankish kingdom of Charlemagne at the beginning of the ninth century, and finally in Rome by Pope Benedict VIII in 1014. The Roman Church has never insisted that this phrase be added to the Creed in the Eastern rite liturgies. However, it has encouraged it, and it has obliged all Catholics to accept the truth of this doctrine. Cf. Benedict XIV Etsi Pastoralis, May 26, 1742: “The Greeks are bound to believe that the Holy Ghost proceeds from the Son, but they are not bound to proclaim it in the Creed.” The doctrine of the procession of the Holy Ghost from the Father and the Son was in
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