[GSlob]

"The East and the West have their own ceremonial traditions,..."
Maybe the religions should be judged not by their doctrinal, liturgical, or ceremonial aspects, but by the sociological ones - i.e. by what kind of society they tend to create and promote. Then the difference becomes not "filioque", not whether the clergy is shaved or bearded and not whether their ritual headgear resembles the overturned chamberpots or not, but what Huntington in his "Clash" put with breathtaking brevity: "in Orthodoxy, God is Caesar's junior partner" [p.70].

[sionnsar]

I guess I don't follow you -- the article wasn't about traditions or practices, but rather: ‘Do you hold the same Catholic faith we have inherited from the Fathers?’

[Martin Tell]

I don't understand that comment at all, brief or not.

Are you trying to say that all Orthodox are tied to the State, worship the State over God, are under the heel of the State?

And where does that leave all the Orthodox in the USA? Do we worship Caesar?

There has not been a caesar of any sort for over 500 years, yet Orthodoxy is doing very well.

Many disaffected Episcopalians have found its timeless and true Christianity to be a calm haven for the storm tossed. I am among those grateful refugees.