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To: Zemo

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.


sitetest


17 posted on 12/16/2006 1:42:38 PM PST by sitetest (If Roe is not overturned, no unborn child will ever be protected in law.)
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To: sitetest
Well, he is an orthodox, for now...

If they do something to anger him, he might start the Christian Church of Crunchy Conservatives;

179 posted on 12/17/2006 6:32:27 AM PST by bornacatholic
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To: sitetest; Zemo
I believe that reunion will not happen before the Second Coming of Jesus Christ

After all, He really does proceed from the Father AND the Son.

419 posted on 12/21/2006 9:06:44 AM PST by ichabod1 (After the attacks of 9/11, profiling Muslims is more like profiling the Klan.)
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