HUGE: Catholic Church and Orthodox

Lightknight · 11-30-2006, 12:53 PM

The Pope met with Ecumenical Patriarch Bartholomew I and spoke of reunited the ties that were broken between the Roman Catholic Church and the Eastern Orthodox churches nearly 1,000 years ago. This is a very surprising step from the Pope and it should be interesting to see how this pans out.

Reedolo · 11-30-2006, 03:02 PM

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Originally Posted by Lightknight

The Pope met with Ecumenical Patriarch Bartholomew I and spoke of reunited the ties that were broken between the Roman Catholic Church and the Eastern Orthodox churches nearly 1,000 years ago. This is a very surprising step from the Pope and it should be interesting to see how this pans out.

It would be great if the schism were actually healed. But I don't think it's very likely. T

he Eastern Orthodox are just as stubborn as we are... their idea of re-unification is for us to come into full communion with them, and our idea is for them to come into full communion with us. So you can see how there can be some problems.

If you put your TV on EWTN, they're celebrating the Eastern Orthodox Divine Liturgy in Istanbul (Constantinople) right now and there's a guy translating everything into English.

AlphaSigma · 11-30-2006, 05:31 PM

Interesting but in terms of the great schism, they will always be two seperate institutions.

jengoesup · 11-30-2006, 07:33 PM

Whoa

That will be interesting to see. If they managed it somehow, why...that'd be history. There's been a schism since forever.

Lightknight · 11-30-2006, 07:54 PM

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Interesting but in terms of the great schism, they will always be two seperate institutions.

Well, that's nothing bad. The Roman Catholic Church was always seperate from the four other churches of the Pentarchy. Rome, Alexandria, Jerusalem, Antioch, and Constantinople were the five seperate churches that made up the Christian Church way back when. Seperate but unified.

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he Eastern Orthodox are just as stubborn as we are... their idea of re-unification is for us to come into full communion with them, and our idea is for them to come into full communion with us. So you can see how there can be some problems.

Which is why a compromise should be made. One of the biggest problems that caused the schism is that the Roman church wanted control of the councils. The churches came together as brothers, none above the other, and Rome was allowed to go first because it had the most members due to the amount of land it covered (the Western world basically). But they didn't mean that as authority, someone had to be first and why not them? So a submission to equal authority would be in order during convening councils. Though that may be just another schism waiting to happen.

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Whoa That will be interesting to see. If they managed it somehow, why...that'd be history. There's been a schism since forever.

Exactly, we may be living during a huge event in Christianity.

jengoesup · 01-17-2007, 05:45 PM

I don't intend to resurrect an old thread; but does anyone know what happened to this? Did it die?