“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.
Well, given that the Catholic Church did nothing to stop forced mass conversions of Orthodox Serbs in fascist puppet-state of Croatia (1941-1945), one is led to believe that this was indeed the teaching of the Catholic Church. I would like to think otherwise, but for the imprimatur to make such an oversight just seems a little too naïve.
By the way, Petrosius, what was the official teaching of the Catholic Church vis-a-vis the Eastern Orthodox Church in the 1930's?