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In addition to the new and very young Patriarch to replace the outgoing Old Liberal, papabile, ++Lubomyr Husar in the Ukraine, the Maronites are getting a Patriarch too who is going to probably continue the increasingly understated presence of the Patriarchate in party poltics, says Phalange Party official, to represent almost a Million Maronite Catholics, who are an ancient Arabic lineage in Union with the Holy See of Rome and always have been.
Following the 2005 elections, the rivalry between the two-biggest Christian blocs in the Lebanese Parliament led to the FPM distancing themselves from the church leadership at Bkirki over Sfeir’s stances regarding Lebanon’s political disputes.
http://eponymousflower.blogspot.com/2011...iarch.html
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About time. the outgoing pstriach was over 90. Also many many maronites not all but a good many donr consider themselvs Arabs or of Arabic lineage. Just a heads up
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(03-25-2011, 11:08 AM)devotedknuckles Wrote: About time. the outgoing pstriach was over 90. Also many many maronites not all but a good many donr consider themselvs Arabs or of Arabic lineage. Just a heads up
Check, thanks.
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The Lord bless and protect our Maronite brothers and sisters in Lebanon and all over the world. :pray:
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