Communion with Rome, without becoming Latin.
The Chaldean Church holds Catholic doctrine and papal primacy and keeps the East Syriac rite: the Qurbana of Addai and Mari, the Hudra, married parish clergy, and a liturgical Syriac older than Latin. Rome's repeated attempts to Latinise the rite were reversed in the twentieth century, and the reformed Chaldean liturgy of 2005 went further back rather than further west.
The Chaldean Church is an Eastern Catholic church sui iuris: it elects its own patriarch, whose election the pope confirms, and it governs itself by the Code of Canons of the Eastern Churches. Its liturgy is the same East Syriac rite the Assyrian Church of the East uses, and the two churches' anaphora is identical, which is why the 2001 Vatican guidelines could allow their members to communicate at each other's altars in case of need. Latinisations accumulated between the seventeenth and nineteenth centuries — a Roman-style institution narrative inserted into Addai and Mari among them — and the twentieth-century reform stripped much of that back out. Parish priests may be married; bishops are chosen from celibate clergy.
When necessity requires, Assyrian faithful are permitted to participate and to receive Holy Communion in a Chaldean celebration of the Holy Eucharist; in the same way, Chaldean faithful have similar provisions.
Guidelines for Admission to the Eucharist between the Chaldean Church and the Assyrian Church of the East, Pontifical Council for Promoting Christian Unity, 20 July 2001Two churches divided since 431 sharing an altar in case of need, without either withdrawing its formula.
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