Preface

The Catholic East is the fruit of a long and intense effort. It is published by the Dicastery for the Eastern Churches, the dicastery of the Roman Curia entrusted with supporting the Eastern Catholic Churches [...] We are fully aware that the Eastern Catholic Churches over the years have been considered simultaneously as bridges and stumbling blocks. Yet the self-understanding of these Churches goes beyond simple stereotypes: they live with great seriousness a full, rich, and responsible ecclesial life, aware of their individuality and uniqueness, and of their par dignitas with the other Churches of East and West.

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For the realization of the Italian edition (2017), the Dicastery for the Eastern Churches constituted a Scientific Commission that, between 2003 and 2017, met in twenty-two working sessions in Rome, at the Palazzo dei Convertendi on the Via della Conciliazione 34, the headquarters of the dicastery. For the realization of the English edition (2019), the commission met in six working sessions in Rome and was composed of: the president, above mentioned abbot Michel Van Parys, O.S.B.; the secretary, above mentioned archivist Gianpaolo Rigotti; Edward Farrugia, S.J., emeritus professor of Dogma and Eastern Patristic Theology and director of Orientalia Christiana Analecta at the Pontifical Oriental Institute.

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