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Sun worship is the oldest religion in existence

I can't understand why the EO's make a big joke about the "which Orthodox Church?" question. If you ask 5 GOARCH Priests if ROCOR can receive Communion at their Churches, and 5 ROCOR Priests whether GOARCH can receive at their Churches, you will get ten different answers. If that's the one, singular, unified "Church," I'm confused. Is the sole basis of unity opposing the Bishop of Rome and doing the Divine Liturgy of St John Chrysostom (or Divine Liturgy of St Basil)? Can "unity" mean "we may disagree on something as fundamental as divorce, and we cannot receive Communion at each others' Churches?" Is just doing the same Liturgy enough? Of course even with the Liturgy, the Russians have added some things to their Liturgy, the Greeks have shortened theirs, and many of the Churches disagree on which calendar to use. At times, they seem to squabble even about this. The unity they have even there is tenuous. So the sole unifier within Eastern Orthodoxy appears to be "opposing the Bishop of Rome." Which even many early Church fathers, such as St Irenaeus of Lyons, explicitly disagreed with. From this, are we to understand that the unifying element of the One, Holy, Catholic and Apostolic Church consists of assenting to anti-Roman arguments that developed many centuries later? But if that development came later, why do so many EO oppose Rome because we've done "development of doctrine?" Why oppose development of doctrine in our case, but not in your own? It seems to me that understanding this very strange form of "unity" requires almost limitless degrees of intensive study, or it requires more or less not caring about the question. And if you ask these questions to the EO types online, they are far more likely to call you a retard than they are to offer a serious, helpful answer. They consider you hopelessly stupid for even asking. Offline, I find the vast majority of converts haven't really thought these kinds of questions through -- they mostly came for the aesthetics and the (very!) friendly parishioners. Exhaustion with both the vagueness and the cagey attitude of many apologists was a large contributor to my leaving the EO catechumenate and returning to Rome.

I forgot how malicious some can get when the Catholic Church is involved. It's a homily for Catholics, who learned about the beatitudes in rcia. He clearly paused for a second before saying the rest. But suddenly everyone forgot how punctuation works.

NEW: Outrage has broken out after Pope Leo appeared to quote Jesus using a passage that does not exist in the Bible. “Jesus told us, ‘Blessed are the peacemakers, but woe to those who manipulate religion in the very name of God for their own military, economic, or political gain, dragging that which is sacred into darkness and filth.’” The first line echoes scripture. The rest does not appear in any biblical passage. The Pope is being accused of using a fabricated quote from Jesus to push a political message.

NEW: Outrage has broken out after Pope Leo appeared to quote Jesus using a passage that does not exist in the Bible. “Jesus told us, ‘Blessed are the peacemakers, but woe to those who manipulate religion in the very name of God for their own military, economic, or political gain, dragging that which is sacred into darkness and filth.’” The first line echoes scripture. The rest does not appear in any biblical passage. The Pope is being accused of using a fabricated quote from Jesus to push a political message.

🚨 JUST NOW: Pope Leo drops this line in Cameroon "Jesus told us, 'Blessed are the peacemakers,' but woe to those who manipulate religion in the very name of God for their own military, economic, or political gain, dragging that which is sacred into darkness and filth."

🚨Pope Leo: "Christians and Muslims can live together and be friends." Thoughts?

This is gayer than gay sex.

The Orthodox position presented to you by Father Josiah Trenham