You wrote:
“You sure you want to go there?”
Yes, I’m sure.
“After all theres Catholic Bishops who were found to be giving the eucharist to dogs...”
Please, do post. This should be edifying one way or the other.
“... (so either the Vatican disagrees with that practice or there’s some real big rifts in the Catholic church)”
Not at all. If there is a bishop doing that, then he is not approved by the Vatican in that action. That doesn’t mean there is a rift either. It means he’s insane. That’s the difference.
“Granted we can’t just dig up a single dead Bishop pop him in his vestiments and try him for Heresey like the Latins can...”
No, instead, puppet patriarchs of Constantinople called orthodox men heretics, and in the case of Maximus the Confessor cut out his tongue and cut off his hand so he could not longer speak or write.
Nice. As noted by the old Catholic Encyclopedia, “Thus St. Maximus died for orthodoxy and obedience to Rome.”
Also, I don’t see anything wrong with putting a dead man on trial for heresy (even if he was pope) in the Middle Ages. The symbolism was important.