[Kolokotronis]

“Do I detect triumphalism? Maybe just use the term “Papist” or “Romanist” instead of the ever so subtle, Latinist, my Orthodox Brother.”

FS, no triumphalism. I don’t really know what else to call you guys. I suppose I could have said “The Roman Catholics”. “Latins” is quicker.

But here’s the problem, FS. The Roman Church wants reunion with Orthodoxy while tolerating this sort of behavior. Your bishops argue about giving communion to abortion supporting politicians but hand it out to active gays and straight people living together without the benefit of clergy and then refuse it to people who get divorced and remarried. We’re not perfect, but our priests, I’ll suggest, have a more refined sense of their obligations to both the Holy Eucharist and potential communicants than yours do. I don’t know why this has happened since it wasn’t true when I was a kid, but it certainly is now. Every Sunday our priests make an announcement about who can approach for communion. If someone known to be living a life style contrary to the teachings of The Church, they are refused communion, publicly. That’s the way it should be.

Now you tell me FS, why should any faithful Orthodox Christian want anything to do with reunion with an organization which tolerates this behavior from one of its hierarchs?

[steadfastconservative]

Thank you for your sweeping generalizations! They may not be true but they give you a convenient excuse to object to any reunification of the Churches, which you apparently oppose. How many Catholic bishops do you know for a fact permit Communion to be given to active homosexuals or to cohabitating couples? What this archbishop did was clearly wrong but it is not typical of the Catholic bishops in the U.S. to do things like this. Before you condemn the Church for officially tolerating this kind of abuse, let’s see whether or not the Holy See disciplines this archbishop.

It is clear to me that you hate the Catholic Church and are only too happy to bash it when the opportunity arises.

[Mrs. Frogjerk]

I just heard about this today, and I have to say as a truly devoted Roman Catholic I am disgusted and angry. The first thing that I thought would happen was that this would be yet another incident to throw on the pile for people doubting our Church. Most of us do not tolerate this heresy! Please do not under any circumstances compare a Roman Catholic Church from San Francisco to most of ours. As far as I am concerned, San Francisco is on par with one of the rings of hell from Dante’s inferno.

We are obviously not tolerating this, because somebody was outraged enough to expose it in the first place, and God bless them for it!

I have the utmost respect for the Orthodox Church, and I truly hope that they do not turn on all of us for this. I would love for us to one day be united with each other.

There are always going to be people within the Church, working to bring it down. We cannot simply give in to the devil and give up Hope! I will not let these people turn me against the Church Period!