The Orthodox consider the Catholics to be a fellow Apostolic church that has fallen into heresy and schism and thus their business - especially since the Pope has made a reconciliation with the Orthodox his mission. So that makes what the Catholics do, Orthodox business.
Dear Zemo,
Mr. Dreher is not a Catholic. In fact, it is my understanding that in order to be received into the Orthodox Church, he was obligated to formally and publicly renounce the "errors" of the Catholic Church.
Thus, unlike the vast majority of Orthodox Christians, Mr. Dreher is an apostate from the Catholic Faith.
Catholics really aren't interested in the inaccurate, bumbling ramblings of apostates.
"The Orthodox consider the Catholics to be a fellow Apostolic church that has fallen into heresy and schism and thus their business - especially since the Pope has made a reconciliation with the Orthodox his mission. So that makes what the Catholics do, Orthodox business."
That's nice. The Catholic Church consider the Orthodox to be an Aposotlic Church that has fallen into schism and heresy, as well. Nonetheless, even though we hope and pray for reunification with the Orthodox, we try to avoid the hubris of telling the Orthodox how to do things.
We acknowledge that even should we ever find a way to reunion (and I believe that reunion will not happen before the Second Coming of Jesus Christ), we will still have somewhat different customs, traditions and practices, and it would be better for a peaceful reunion if we didn't try to tell each other how to run each other's Churches.
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"The Orthodox consider the Catholics to be a fellow Apostolic church that has fallen into heresy and schism and thus their business - especially since the Pope has made a reconciliation with the Orthodox his mission. So that makes what the Catholics do, Orthodox business."
No, what they believe as dogmatic matters of Faith is our business but even then only because of the reunion dialog. Their disciplinary practices, to the extent they aren't heretical, and God knows a celibate priesthood isn't, are absolutely none of Orthodoxy's business. Why would we care about their rules for their priests in their particular church? As long as they are men and their bishops aren't married, we have nothing to say nor should we.