[Campion]

You disappoint me, boatbums. That's a fairly silly list.

1. That's not a difference.
2. Hardly. The Pope is infallible when teaching definitively to the whole church a doctrine concerning faith or morals. That's a fairly restrictive circumstance. Both Catholics and Orthodox believe that properly constituted Ecumenical Councils teach infallibly.
3. The Orthodox don't believe in original sin in the Western sense. It would be more correct to assert that the Orthodox think that Mary, and everyone else, is free from original sin, at least in the way that the West understands it.
4. A difference in discipline. There are some Catholic priests, even in the West, who are married at ordination. Note that only celibate men become bishops in Orthodoxy.
5. Has the writer set foot in a Catholic church at any time since about 1964?
6. Protestants call both "idolatry".
7. No, infallibly taught doctrines cannot be altered in either faith.
8. The "Stations of the Cross" is a devotional meditation based on Scripture, not a "concept". Of course the East has a different set of devotions. "Purgatory" is a concept from Latin theology; the Greeks have a similar concept called "spiritual toll houses". Both faiths teach prayer for the dead.

As I say, a very weak list. It doesn't touch on the filioque, for example ... but Protestants generally agree with the Catholic position on that, not the Orthodox.

[boatbums]

And you disappoint me Campion. That "silly" list is simply a summary of some of the differences - though I said that, didn't I?

Like I also said, these differences (whatever they may ALL be) were enough to cause a split nearly a thousand years ago that has never been rectified. Being that I am not a Greek/Eastern Orthodox member, it's not my place to teach you all about that. From the reading that I have done, I can say that they sound MORE orthodox than Roman Catholicism. They sound like they have remained MORE faithful to the ancient Christian faith than the RCC, though I have no desire to join up with them.

If you are interested, here are a few more links that describe the differences:

http://www.ocf.org/OrthodoxPage/reading/ortho_cath.html

http://christianityinview.com/comparison.html

https://oca.org/questions/romancatholicism

[metmom]

You disappoint me, boatbums. That's a fairly silly list.

Then one can conclude that both the EO and the Romans are being silly in allowing petty little differences to put them in schism for a thousand years or more.

[Elsie]

It doesn't touch on the filioque, for example

2 Timothy 2:14
Remind others about these things, and warn them before God not to argue over words.