[Cronos]

I have a lot of respect for the other Orthodox traditions vs the Roman one. I find the arrogance of the Roman assumptions about Petros to be at least as bad, if not worse, than that chronic arrogance of the Pharisees of Jesus' dusty pathed days.

I would agree with you to some extent -- we CAtholics have acted vis-a-vis the other Churchs in the preceding ages. However, you can't say that about the present Pope who, is from an Eastern European country (maybe that's why).

However, I've lived for some years in parts of the middle east and Asia where the Christian Church IS the Catholic Church and there is no such egotism -- perhaps such a thing happens only where Christianity is dominant. And in those places the silly things we do in the West denigrate the cause of the Christians there -- just as Gene robinson's stupidities in the US have made life for Nigerian Anglicans very very difficult

However, that is digressing from the point, the present Pope in his recent meeting with the Patriarch of Constantinople emphasised that the PAtriarch was the Popes equal -- it's not everything, but is a step to reconciliation. Hopefully, we move away from the arrogance you see in us.

On the other hand, I would like to point out that a lot of the charges levelled against the Church is still medieval propaganda.

[Kolokotronis]

"However, that is digressing from the point, the present Pope in his recent meeting with the Patriarch of Constantinople emphasised that the PAtriarch was the Popes equal -- it's not everything, but is a step to reconciliation. Hopefully, we move away from the arrogance you see in us."

I think the old Pope is doing a great job, and I'm actually proud of the EP, which is sort of a new experience for me.

[Quix]

Thanks.

Sounds good.

Re the propaganda . . .

I don't care how much of the Inquisition stuff may be rightly passed off as propaganda, it seems clear to me, horrid things occurred to some degree for more than an unfortunate few.