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To: gbcdoj

"admit that the Orthodox Churches erred on this point"
Erred? Did you say erred?
That's like crying in baseball.
The Church is God inspired. She does not ever err as to doctrine. Only heretics err.


324 posted on 07/17/2005 8:23:55 PM PDT by Graves (Orthodoxy or death!)
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To: Graves
Agreed. The Orthodox Churches, however, are not the Church. They can only be in the Church when they return to Catholic Unity and the communion of the Apostolic See:
The first condition of salvation is to keep the norm of the true faith and in no way to deviate from the established doctrine of the Fathers. For it is impossible that the words of our Lord Jesus Christ, who said, "Thou art Peter, and upon this rock I will build my Church,", should not be verified. And their truth has been proved by the course of history, for in the Apostolic See the Catholic religion has always been kept unsullied. ...

Following, as we have said before, the Apostolic See in all things and proclaiming all its decisions, we endorse and approve all the letters which Pope St Leo wrote concerning the Christian religion. And so I hope I may deserve to be associated with you in the one communion which the Apostolic See proclaims, in which the whole, true, and perfect security of the Christian religion resides. I promise that from now on those who are separated from the communion of the Catholic Church, that is, who are not in agreement with the Apostolic See, will not have their names read during the sacred mysteries. ...

I have signed this, my profession, with my own hand, and I have directed it to you, Hormisdas, the holy and venerable pope of Rome. (Formula of Pope St. Hormisdas, 519 AD)


325 posted on 07/17/2005 8:36:55 PM PDT by gbcdoj (Without His assisting grace, the law is “the letter which killeth;” - Augustine.)
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