[NRx]

The ancient Church of Antioch has now joined the Bulgarians in withdrawing from the Council, at least for now. The Georgian Church has rejected the proposed document on ecumenism. The Russians and Romanians have expressed grave concerns on the direction of the Council and the text of many of the documents.

Right now, I'd say the Council is on life support. That said, all of this could be a good thing. If the extremely problematic texts are fixed, and the churches can agree on some kind of canonical solution to the very uncanonical alphabet soup of conflicting jurisdictional claims in the diaspora then perhaps this council can proceed and actually accomplish some good. Even better would be if they actually tackled some of the serious doctrinal perversions now prevalent in the modern world. Formal condemnations of the heresies of pansexualism and women's ordination would not be inappropriate. And they might have the added benefit of stiffening the resolve of those resisting the introduction of these heresies into their own confessions (hello London and Rome).

[longtermmemmory]

are these the “old calendar” priests?

[freedumb2003]

Gonna party like it is 1054!

[NRx]

Meanwhile the Ecumenical Patriarch is observing “World Oceans Day.”

http://theorthodoxchurch.info/blog/news/message-by-his-all-holiness-ecumenical-patriarch-bartholomew-for-world-oceans-day-2/

Sigh...

[ebb tide]

Formal condemnations of the heresies of pansexualism and women's ordination would not be inappropriate.

It would also be appropriate if they condemn divorce and remarriage.

[marshmallow]

A fiasco.

[cloudmountain]

Women's ordination
and
Pansexuality, or omnisexuality, is sexual attraction, romantic love, or emotional attraction toward people of any sex or gender identity. Pansexual people may refer to themselves as gender-blind, asserting that gender and sex are insignificant or irrelevant in determining whether they will be sexually attracted to others.

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I would LOVE to see those two issues agreed to by all Catholic Churches in their Council.
I had to look up "pansexuality," at I had never heard that term.

I guess God's Plan: one man and one woman, married to each other for life, isn't good enough.
Some Protestant denominations allow divorce, remarriage, ad infinitum. How do God-fearing Protestants reconcile their marriage-divorce-remarriage when Jesus said:

Matthew 19: 1-12
The proud religious law-keepers came to Jesus. They tried to trap Him by saying, “Does the Law say a man can divorce his wife for any reason?”

4 He said to them, “Have you not read that He Who made them in the first place made them man and woman?
5 It says, ‘For this reason a man will leave his father and his mother and will live with his wife. The two will become one.’

6 So they are no longer two but one. Let no man divide what God has put together.”

How do remarried divorcees reconcile this?