Why not notate that?
The title of your thread is provocative on a stand-alone basis for the thousands of people who never saw the other one.
The obvious antidote to too many Catholic threads, of course, is to provide us with some alternatives.
There are already hundreds of alternatives here every day...of a political nature. Which is what Free Republic is about.
Is that an . . . expectation, exhortation, . . . something . . .
encouraging Proddys to surrender the Rel Forum to the RC’s?
LOL.
How is it provocative to show what the fathers of the early Church believed? Just becuase your sect decided to jettison 1500 years of Christian belief regarding Mary does not mean all share in that error.
Orthodox and Catholic rightly give Theotokos the honor that is due to her and hold fast to the constant teaching that she was without sin.
Now since the Orthodox do not have the same belief regarding Original Sin they do not believe in the doctrine of the Immaculate Conception but they do believe she was without personal sin. The matter of the Blessed Virgin and ancestral sin I am not qualified to comment on.