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Your tone is very nasty. Why is that?

Yes, it was very nasty. I saw -- and see -- you tone in the earlier post (OH! That was an insult) as being something that would undo a lot of work done on the Catholic and Orthodox side to heal issues created in the past. Yes, some EOs still see little insults everywhere, but most have gotten over that. I saw the Catholic Church at Pope JPII's funeral as reaching out to our EO brothers. Some saw it as some kind of calculated insult which leaves us Catholic bewildered. And then, someone from outside the apostolic Church seemingly trys to stoke the flames, it does get highly, highly irritating.

I saw the Catholic Church at Pope JPII's funeral as reaching out to our EO brothers. Some saw it as some kind of calculated insult which leaves us Catholic bewildered.

I see this as well. We can't win with the Orthodox. If we "snub" them it's an insult (yet at the same time they say they wouldn't want to be a part of our games anyway) and if we include them, it's somehow a backhanded insult.

And the thing is, most Catholics probably don't even give thought to the Orthodox, and if they do, it's probably neutral to positive. The Orthodox here have truly turned me off to their religion and way of life.