[Mrs. Don-o]

I want you to know that I esteem and love the Orthodox Church and regard its spiritual heritage as very, very valuable. And I have strong personal connections with Orthodoxy, having been a kind of Catholic-Catechumen in an Russian Orthodox parish for ten years.

Having said that, I also have to add a corrective note that Orthodoxy collapsed on the divorce-remarriage question and the natural-sex-vs-contraception question ages ago --- collapsed at just those points where the corrupt culture was pushing hardest.

And about Russian Orthodoxy's relationship with the Soviet KGB and now Putin's regime --- and Metropolitian Hilarion's calculated decision to use State power to crush the Ukrainian Byzantine church ---- Orthodoxy's most loyal supporters would prudently keep their mouths shut.

[Mrs. Don-o]

Of Orthodox interest.

And tagline.

[piusv]

Having said that, I also have to add a corrective note that Orthodoxy collapsed on the divorce-remarriage question and the natural-sex-vs-contraception question ages ago --- collapsed at just those points where the corrupt culture was pushing hardest.

Thank you. Way too many people seem to think the "Orthodox" Church is the answer, the "orthodox" answer. How wrong they are. I find it very sad and alarming how many Catholics look to the Orthodox as a result of the crisis in the Catholic Church.