[kosciusko51]

I hear the EO doesn’t have these issues.

[Mrs. Don-o]

I have a deep, abiding respect and affection for the Orthodox. I was in effect an Orthodox catechumen for 10 years, while being simultaneously a Catholic --- and I treasure what I lived and learned.

However, the Orthodox have this historic national-church problem which seems to render them especially vulnerable to being Licensed Liturgists for whatever regime is in power ("What is your position on church-state relations, Your Grace?" "Prone."); and they seem to have surrendered on big sexual issues a long, long time ago --- divorce and remarriage, contraception --- and are consequently in a weakened position to face the Orthodox and Gay movement, whose philosophical and sociological force is rooted in divorce/remarriage and contraception.

I feel no satisfaction in pointing out these weaknesses. We are all in dangerous times.