As you know, I'm well aware of the parish you attend and your religious background.
So? Even if that's true, it doesn't give you the right to volunteer any such information online.
So you just pass off the opinions of a very highly respected (by ALL Orthodox jurisdictions) and well educated ROCOR priest because his views and opinions do not coincide with yours.
Yes, as is my right.
Do you also disagree with the opinions and views regarding the RCC of Bishop Anthony of Sourozh (sp?)
Regarding Metropolitan Anthony of Sourozh, the Russian Church's metropolitan in London, I think you're referring to his claim, which I read myself in either Sourozh or Sobornost, that Orthodox can't trust the Catholic Church because all the latter want to do is liquidate the Orthodox churches.
I'm undecided whether he's right.
Balamand seems to say no. I've met and read Catholics, entirely Catholic, who don't fit that description (such as Fr Serge Keleher) but I've also met and read some who do (such as the infamous H.W. Crocker III or New Oxford Review with its outrageous article a couple of years ago by 'Frank Kimball'). He may be right.
An online detractor of the Orthodox (who happened to be Catholic) once claimed that the metropolitan supports the ordination of women but I don't believe he holds that view, nor do I support any attempted ordination of women. (A bishop of the Russian Church? No way!)
The most 'liberal' answer on the question of lady priests I've read that is still reputably Orthodox is that the Orthodox Church is still coming up with an answer why or why not and that the western answers don't quite fit Orthodoxy, not a call to change the unchanged practice of ordaining only men to the apostolic ministry. (I think that's where Bishop Kallistos, ne Timothy Ware, the Greeks' bishop for Britain, is coming from.)
Roman Catholicism's view on what Serge? The Immaculate Conception, Papal Supremacy, Purgatory, Papal Infallibility, etc.? Please specify.
No problem. I thought it was clear from the context - sorry! I meant a view mirroring Catholicism's view that Orthodox sacraments have grace - are 'valid' in Western Catholic-speak. I can't supply a direct URL but I think I read the documents online. Try looking on the Russian Orthodox Church's (Moscow Patriarchate) site - the link is on my Faith page.
I cover the IC on my Q&A page.
IMO the only insurmountable difference is 'the Pope thing'. The current Pope is a great man, a voice of countercultural orthodoxy vs. the new order of things, against contraception, abortion, women's ordination, the war in Iraq... and the Popes in the 1500s were right vs. the Protestant 'Reformation'... but I agree with you that the current Catholic setup with universal papal jurisdiction historically has given the Roman Rite an unfair advantage over Eastern Catholics. (IOW, the trouble is the head of the Roman Rite is also always head of the whole shebang.) As much as I like the Catholic Church (and I don't have a problem per se with a patriarch of patriarchs leading the whole thing), Orthodox ecclesiology makes sense* and is fair to the Christian East.
If there are no temporal consequences for sin (I'll not use the westernism 'temporal punishment') then why do Orthodox pray for the dead? Why not a ticket directly to heaven after the particular judgement (the judgement some Russian Orthodox describe as the aerial toll houses)? IMO, the holding pen/sheol (not to be confused with gehenna, real hell) = purgatory.
*That is, when you understand it as a communion -