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On planet earth there are about 70 million Orthodox Christians that are not in full communion with the Catholic Church (centered at Rome) or with the Eastern Orthodox (centered at Constantinople). These are the Oriental Orthodox Christians. They have all seven sacraments, revere the Mother of God and the saints, have a valid Eucharist, pray for the faithful departed, and have preserved a valid line of apostolic succession.Armenian Christians in the Miaphysite Tradition These Oriental Orthodox Christians do not accept the Council of Chalcedon in AD 451 which dogmatically defined that Christ is one divine Person with two natures (divine and human).Meet the...

SITTING BY THE PHONE The Episcopal Church is having a really tough time dealing with the fact that they just got dumped by every Orthodox church in the world. James Solheim's Episcopal News Service story on it begins this way: The consecration of Gene Robinson as the first openly gay priest to be elected a bishop in the Episcopal Church is clouding and complicating some of the church’s ecumenical relations—especially among the Orthodox. Gee, ya think, Jim? Just because the Piskies went Scripture-optional is no reason for the Orthodox to get so snippy. The ECUSA's ecumenical guy thinks so too;...