"When Luther burned Exsurge Domine, he was scorning the rebuke of the Lord Himself." LOL!
Leo X certainly THOUGHT he was the Lord. Many of the abuses Luther pointed out were right on the money. Latins just don't like to be reminded of it.
"The Orthodox are not even one Church. They are a multitude of independent and autonomous Churches."
WRONG! Even though they are different, in matters of faith and doctrine they are ONE.
Let's get one other point clear: Latins chose Schism, rather than accepting the truth.
Charlemane and the Franks and all that wealth and temporal power was more important.
Rome disobeyed the anethemas of the Ecumenical Councils, and fell into heresy. I call it for what it is.
Well, that's not really surprising. At Vatican I, the Roman Church became quite simply the pope. That's bound to go to one's head!
"Wherefore we teach and declare that,
* by divine ordinance,
* the Roman church possesses a pre-eminence of ordinary power over every other church, and that
* this jurisdictional power of the Roman pontiff is both episcopal and immediate.