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The Latin Church is not in communion with the Orthodox Church, which is unfortunate.

Catholics split with the Orthodox Church about a thousand years ago.

They were "protesting" the Orthodox not accepting their pope as supreme authority over them.

As well as many other un scriptural beliefs of Catholicism, as the Orthodox preferred to follow Christianity rather than Catholicism.

Which act by Catholics made them in essence the first Protestants.

And yet, if a Baptist church split over some point of doctrine, it would be condemned by Catholics and used as an example of the fallacy and weakness of sola Scriptura.

Catholics allow for themselves what they disallow for everyone else.

It’s called *hypocrisy*.

Which act by Catholics made them in essence the first Protestants. The EOs share most of the errors of Rome, though with substantial differences, while conservative RCs can be charged with with being Prots in principal as rather than giving assent to all of V2 and modern teaching, they engaging in judging whether it warrants assent based upon their understanding of historical RC teaching. The paradox is that in seeming contrast, some of the strictest class of traditional RCs (sedevacantism) even assert that all Cath. teaching, even all public papal teaching (invoking Pious 10) requires at least religious assent. But since modern popes are too liberal, than they hold that Pope Paul VI and his successors left the true Catholic Church and thus lost legitimate authority in the Church, arguing that a formal heretic cannot be the Catholic pope, with the see being vacant since the death of Pope Pius XII in 1958.

They also have SSPV which broke away from the traditional sect the Society of St. Pius X (SSPX) over liturgical issues, and also hold that many in the hierarchy of the Roman Catholic Church no longer adhere to the Catholic faith but instead profess a new, modernist, Conciliar religion. But SSPV priests regard the questions of the legitimacy of the present hierarchy and the possibility that the Holy See is unoccupied (sedevacantism) to be unresolved.