Posted on 02/12/2016 3:34:19 PM PST by NYer
Catholic ping!
I don’t see where they agreed on the procession of the Holy Spirit.
Yeah? What till Frank opens his mouth about homos.
This worries me, I’m afraid. Improving relations between the Catholic and Orthodox Churches is extremely important. I hate to see someone who appears to be a theological imbecile like Francis sticking his foot into it.
“I don’t see where they agreed on the procession of the Holy Spirit.”
Did the article claim they did?
“I hate to see someone who appears to be a theological imbecile like Francis sticking his foot into it.”
God works through imbeciles too. And, if Pope Francis, is an imbecile, the Eastern Orthodox will know it.
That’s just it — the Pope and Patriarch didn’t address the big issue.
“That’s just it — the Pope and Patriarch didn’t address the big issue.”
1) It was a “get-to-know-you” meeting not a major meeting of theologians to discuss theological differences. They’re going to highlight common interests not differences.
2) It really isn’t as much of a “big issue” as you might think.
“The Filioque controversy which has separated us for so many centuries is more than a mere technicality, but it is not insoluble. Qualifying the firm position taken when I wrote The Orthodox Church twenty years ago, I now believe, after further study, that the problem is more in the area of semantics than in any basic doctrinal differences.” (Bishop Kallistos Ware, Diakonia, quoted from Elias Zoghby’s A Voice from the Byzantine East, p.43) http://www.catholic-legate.com/articles/filioque.html
After WWII Greco-Catholic religion was banned in Czechoslovakia and Ukraine. Priests were forced to convert to Russian Orthodox. Those that stayed true to their religion and oath to Christ were prosecuted, thrown into labor camps and jails.
“Russian Orthodox Church” was stuffed with KGB agent “priests”.
True believers went into underground and stayed true to Christ. Eastern European church became purified and came out stronger.
“The Killing Grounds” indeed.
The Orthodox do know it and they're making the most of it. By the way, I have yet to see God working through you.
Brothers? Like Cain & Abel?
“The Orthodox do know it and they’re making the most of it. By the way, I have yet to see God working through you.”
Of course you haven’t: YOU’RE BLIND.
Only an imbecile would make a statement like that.
“Only an imbecile would make a statement like that.”
You’ve proven my tagline to be accurate and prophetic. Again.
Your home page is a perfect example of an imbecile’s home page.
“Your home page is a perfect example of an imbecile’s home page.”
My home page? See my tagline.
OUCH. You know how to hurt a guy.
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