[Petrosius]

You seem to mix up the important difference between heresy and simple error. Both you and I have made many posts concerning theology and both of us have tried, as best we can, to present these according to the mind of the Church. This does not however guarantee that from time to time we have not made mistakes. As long as we are willing to correct our views and conform to church teaching there is no heresy, just error. Is it not possible that Frs. Rumble and Carty just made a mistake and no one corrected them?

Unless you can show a pattern of official statements that support the view presented in Radio Replies please refrain from attempting to portray this as the then generally accepted view; the actions of the Catholic Church show that it was otherwise. (The system for approving and imprimatur has never been perfect.) Or should I scourer every book ever written by Orthodox writers and portray the most extreme and bigoted opinions as the norm among the Orthodox?

[Kolokotronis]

“Is it not possible that Frs. Rumble and Carty just made a mistake and no one corrected them?”

I doubt it. I was told the very same thing as an elementary school student by Sisters of Mercy in 1957. That experience, coupled with the imprimatur, tell me that this was the belief of the Latin Church.

“Or should I scourer every book ever written by Orthodox writers and portray the most extreme and bigoted opinions as the norm among the Orthodox?”

Please feel free. You won’t surprise any Orthodox, at least not any cradle Orthodox. That a cleric, especially I hierarch, might teach heresy isn’t exactly news, P. We Orthodox avoid the hierarch worship apparently endemic in the Latin Church. The difference between you and your heretic clerics and us with ours is we can get rid of them.