"Finally, for the first time in their lives, they were able to really concentrate on theosis. And theosis, after all, is what it's all about or should be."
Is that what the Orthodox response to Pope Benedict (and John Paul before him) and the Orthodox approach to Catholic posters on FR is all about?
From Alexy II on down to the Orthodox posters on FR "it's all about theosis"?
Could have fooled me!
I thought it was just good ol' fashioned American anti-Catholic nastiness!
By the way, an Orthodox bishop once told a group of us, "Most Episcopal and Roman Catholic men who convert to Orthodoxy don't really convert to Orthodoxy, they convert to the Orthodox priesthood!"
I guess I just don't fit your mold, being that I'm just a layman. And I'm not about to sit in judgement on the spiritual progress of Alexey II. Who am I, unworthy sinner that I am, to judge him or any man as to his spiritual progress?