[Destro]

How can a good Catholic not be aware of St. Augustine's work the "City of God"? The Orthodox church is not a temporal power but a spiritual one and a legate of what is called ROMIOSINI. ROMIOSINI - ROMANITAS can not be explained with a few words.

The Patriarch, unlike Pope does not and did not command nor will ever command armies in the field like a temporal ruler.

Constantinople did a great job in defending Europe. She bore the brunt of Islamic expansion and converted the Russian and Slavic peoples to Christianity. She preserved the fruits of classical civilization for a later generation.

[MarMema]

Kristos Anesti!

The commentary outside FR on this has been fun. There are certainly a lot of trad-RC, like the blue army, etc, who are fuming and frothing at the mouth over this one. Tsk tsk.

Look for Seattle Catholic to have a scathing write-up soon.

It was nice of us to forgive them even if they have kept all the stolen loot and even sent it out to show it off on museum tours. Guess we can only ask so much. Money is money after all, and certainly that stuff is worth a lot by now.

[FBDinNJ]

Well Destro I don't know about the acuracy of your statement, because the current Patriarch did serve in the military and was an officer in the Turkish military from 1961 till 1963.

Doesn't seem too spiritual to me.