Wikipedia says:St. Gregory Palamas is venerated in the Byzantine-Rite Catholic Churches but not in the Latin churches
Gregory has been venerated as a saint in the Eastern Orthodox Church since 1368. Within the Catholic Church, he has also been called a saint; Pope John Paul II repeatedly called Gregory a great theological writer.[2] Since 1971, the Melkite Greek Catholic Church has venerated Gregory as a saint.[3][4] Some of his writings are collected in the Philokalia, and since the Ottoman period, the second Sunday of Great Lent is dedicated to the memory of Gregory Palamas in the Orthodox Church and Ukrainian Greek Catholic Church.[5] The Byzantine Synodikon of Orthodoxy also celebrates his memory and theology while condemning his opponents, including some anti-Palamites who flourished after Gregory's death.
The rest are not dogmatic theology, nor especially difficult matters for either Orthodox or Catholic Christians.and his theology of the uncreated energies of God directly contradicts the Scholastic theology found in Thomas Aquinas of uncreated grace. In the Byzantine Catholic Churches, just like the Eastern Orthodox churches, at least since the Second Vatican Council, the second Sunday in Lent is the feast day of St. Gregory Palamas. Likewise, the Byzantine Catholic liturgy is generally compliant with Eastern Orthodox canon law such as the Quinisext Council in Trullo, which the Latin Church famously rejected.
Indeed lately several Eastern Catholic bishops ranging from Ruthenian Greek Catholics to the Patriarchs of the Melkites and Chaldeans have pushed for unification with their respective Eastern counterparts, the Antiochian Orthodox and the Assyrian Church of the East, expressing a view that any inconsistencies, for example, the understanding of the role of the Pope, could be resolved. However this eagerness is not reciprocated; the Holy Synod of the Assyrian Church of the East wrote an eloquent letter to the Chaldean Patriarch expressing their desire to not reunify in such a manner that would cause them to lose their historic autocephaly (ecclesiastical independence) and find themselves inadvertently having become subordinate to the Pope of Rome.
Also it should be stressed that the Pope of Rome is not the Patriarch of the Eastern churches; historically, until 2006, one of his titles was Patriarchate of the West, as he was in charge of all Western Rite Catholics, but his powers concerning the Eastern Catholic churches are less clearly defined; at a minimum, the Pope no longer routinely exercises his authority over most of the Eastern Catholic churches except when it comes to the selection of new Patriarchs for them.
Also, the Roman Catholic Church believes that the filioque is erroneous if inserted into the Nicene Creed in the Greek language, and many Byzantine Rite Catholic churches omit the Filioque, even those which do not speak Greek (which are the majority; the actual Greek Catholic church is one of the smaller ones).
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