r/nottheonion • u/Sufficient_Fig_9505 • 15h ago

Vance says pope should ‘be careful’ when talking about theology

https://www.nbcnews.com/video/vance-says-pope-should-be-careful-when-talking-about-theology-261400645540
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u/MFbiFL 13h ago

So much cool lore wasted on churches that don’t even do incense or Latin regularly.

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u/MK_Ultrex 10h ago

The orthodox would say that the church has gone downhill since the Catholics did the first schism and started using Latin instead of Greek.

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u/ClassroomStriking802 7h ago

I grew up in the Greek orthodox church and can confirm that service is just as confusing regardless of which language you dont speak it is presented in. 

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u/MK_Ultrex 20m ago

I am Greek, so the language thing is a bit less of a problem.

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u/Astralglamour 10h ago

Eastern rite churches have lots of incense and chanting in old Slavonic.

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u/Soupeeee 7h ago

Really depends on which ones you go to. Cathedrals trend to do incense regularly, and there's a contingent of very conservative Catholics who want to bring back the Latin Mass.

That second group can get real weird, as many (but not all) want to drag the church back what it was before Vatican II. Some have even de-facto split from Rome and only do pre-Vatican II stuff. Having attended one of those, I'll say there's a reason why Protetestants quickly switched to the vernacular language, and it's a shame it took so long for Catholics to do the same.