“And perhaps that is why we see this amazing confusion of jurisdictions and petty infighting over utter nonsense in the Orthodox Church - no one at the top to guide the brotherhood in unity.”
Perhaps. But in all honesty, all we have is “petty infighting over utter nonsense”. With the infallible Vicar of Christ on Earth exercising immediate universal jurisdiction on the Roman Church, how to you explain the rot of apostasy and heresy which shoots through the Roman Church, especially in the West? Seems you Vicars of Christ on Earth have been major league, miserable failures for the past 40+ years. You really don’t want t argue that the Latins have shared brotherhood in unity the past few decades do you? Our silly little squabble pale to insignificance in light of what your system has created.
For all the supposed immediate jurisdiction of the Pope, if you’d actually look closely at how the Catholic Church has been run at least since the time of Trent, its much closer to the “Pope orders, Cardinals ignore, people do as they please” that Pope Benedict XIV complained about in the 1700’s.
The Pope has relatively little actual ability to enforce.
The rot of apostasy is a result of an attack of the unbaptized upon the Church, and the subterfuge of communists, atheists, and libertines working their way covertly through the monasteries and seminary system in the 1930’s to destroy the Church from within.