Yes, “wayward” is exactly what the Church thinks of the Orthodox. They have broken communion with Peter and withdrawn into a cave of history. Yes, the Church of Peter has remained engaged in the ongoing theological project of Christianity. But only the Church of Peter is competent to do so. Only the Church of Peter can hold ecumenical councils etc.
So, yeah. You were dead on.
I didn’t think I was too far off. I didn’t exactly say all that, but the Vatican’s position on the Orthodox isn’t easily put into a pithy comment. We all tend to get a little too emotional in these discussions. The divisions get weird. I probably have more in common with NY’er, theologically speaking, than with the Lutheran Bishop from Greenland, though she and I are both “protestants.”
“They have broken communion with Peter and withdrawn into a cave of history.”
Peter was first Bishop of Antioch, long before he when to Rome. So therefore Antioch would be the See of Peter and all of Orthodoxy is part of it.