"And your point is???"
That he had two choices if he wanted to stay in a liturgical church. He chose Rome doubtless because of the control from the top system and the claimed infallibility of the Pope. And like so many converts, he has become something of a polemical partisan of the false claims of the Papacy.
In all honesty, NYer, if I believed for one minute that Rome still claimed what this author asserts, I'd do everything in my power to make sure the next meeting of the dialog is the last. Its just such attitudes in the Roman Church which make us Orthodox recall the warning of +Mark of Ephesus:
"It is impossible to recall peace without dissolving the cause of the schism - the primacy of the Pope exalting himself equal to God."
Christ is our boss.
Friends, you are the two crows fighting over nothing in my joke observation.
Christ is our boss.
The Holy Father makes no such claim.