[jo kus]

Where in God's name did you get the idea that the priests and laity in Constantinople didn't know what was being taught in the West?

From this board. Do you deny that it has taken you a long time to come to grasp what the West teaches on such issues as original sin, purgatory, and the Trinity? If I recall, they didn't have internet back then - so it seems to me it was VERY LIKELY that their ignorance of Western teachings was present.

Regard

[Kolokotronis]

"Do you deny that it has taken you a long time to come to grasp what the West teaches on such issues as original sin, purgatory, and the Trinity?"

Oh, please Jo. Are you seriously suggesting that the carefully nuanced theological points discussed today bear any relationship to what the Latin Church taught even in the years leading up to Vatican II, let alone in 1440?