re: No little band of morons gets to second guess the Church. ...The Church says what the Church says; it is not beholden to a splinter group. Splitters and quitters do not make the rules either in the 1500s or in the 1900s. You either accept the Church or you don’t. If you don’t and consider your own group’s doctrines and pronouncements to supersede Church doctrines and pronoucements, then you have removed yourself from the Church.
Yes, that is what exactly what the schismatic Eastern Orthodox did. We agree.
Yes, that is what exactly what the schismatic Eastern Orthodox did. We agree.
We disagree. Both the Latin and the Orthodox who engaged in petty excommunications may just wind up on the floor of hell because they put their own whims and self-important pufferies ahead of the Church and its requirements.
Please understand that I am not singling you out except to the extent that you are attempting to divide the Church. The Latin branch will suffer tremendously on its own; it needs the Orthodox as much as the Orthodox needs it. The first millennium was full of Orthodox heresies and the Pope stood like a bulwark against them. Yet, the second millennium was one failure upon another of the Latin branch. The Reformation is the everlasting shame of the Latins and don't you forget it. If it wasn't for the malfeasance of Rome, the Reformation would never have happened.