[jo kus]

But in fact, none of these evil men are The Church, though the ecclesiology of the Latin Church at that time certainly made it look that way.

ARGGHHH!

You were doing so well! Is it necessary to throw in such comments?

Regards

[Kolokotronis]

"You were doing so well! Is it necessary to throw in such comments?"

Sorry, but, theological reality aside, that's just what it looked like, even to us in the East 100 years earlier. When the Eastern hierarchs came back to Constantinople from the Council of Florence, the reaction of the lower clergy and laity, both high and low born, was that they and the Empire had been delivered into the hands of "foreign overlords", not the loving embrace of the HMC. Quite aside from the sensitivities of the Protestants, there's a lesson here for Rome to remember as the discussions continue between Orthodoxy and the Latin Church.