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To: markomalley
Of course, only Churches with Apostolic Succession and Churches that have maintained the validity of all seven sacraments are the only true churches.

Except for the Coptic Orthodox Church, which maintains both Apostolic Succession and the seven sacraments. It has been made clear that the Oriental Orthodox are excluded from the list of true churches.

"Not content with having offended millions of the world's Muslims," the paper charged, "the Vatican strikes again, this time the sensibility of the followers of the Orthodox and Protestant churches."

While attributed to the paper, this quote is actually form Coptic Bishop Morcos Aziz. Aziz also says, "words are worthless, I do not want to reopen old wounds and to speak about the "sins" of the catholic Church."

Coptic Bishop Abdel Massih Bassit is also quoted in the article saying, "The Vatican regularly offends millions of people in the world. I invite Pope Benedict XVI to wake up himself from the coma."

I suspect the Egyptian media will continue to play the two churches against each other for all it is worth. Their cold muzzie hearts have been warmed by this new document from the Pope.

4 posted on 07/11/2007 6:35:27 AM PDT by Between the Lines (I am very cognizant of my fallibility, sinfulness, and other limitations.)
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To: Between the Lines

The Copts have also been sadly pro-muzzie recently, and I’m not sure they reflect the attitude of other Orthodox Churches. I remember that both in Egypt and in Turkey they were very critical of the Pope after his comments about Islam last year.


5 posted on 07/11/2007 6:44:06 AM PDT by livius
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