How is it that the great intellects speak so clearly and directly?
A very good interview.
I am a Uniate who has thought long and hard about becoming Orthodox. I love the Orthodox Church and its spirituality, but my stumbling block about becoming Orthodox has been its lack of coherency.
I frequently feel you can get as many opinions about what is Orthodox as there are Orthodox people.
If Catholics want to be ecumenical with anyone, it should be the Orthodox or at least the traditionally-minded Anglo-Catholics because we share more in common with them than the Protestants.
I just wish the pope would abolish the Eastern congregation and let the Eastern Churches be self-governing without his interference.
Melkite Metropolitan Elias Zoghby's proposal that Rome declare its "Ecumenical Councils" of the second millenium to have been General Councils of the Western Church makes a lot of sense to me.
We need a new ecumenical council with the Orthodox Churches, Eastern, Oriental and Assyrian to negotiate an end to the schism and solve our previous problems.