Serge writes:
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That there are only minor differences between us.
They are minor but real.]
Reply: So you think that the differences between Roman Catholicism and Orthodox Catholicism are minor? Have you read 'The Rush To Embrace' ? Perhaps you should since you seem to have not fully shaken off your Byzantine Catholic sojourn even though you now attend an Orthodox Catholic Church. You will find very few Orthodox that will agree with you except for maybe two or three Ecumenical minded bishops under the EP who's Orthodoxy seems to be getting watered down due to their ecumenical activities. Though I am not ROCOR I am in complete agreement with them on their stance on ecumenism. And these three bishops seem tobe proof of the pudding from some of the statements they have been attributed to saying.
[Is your claim to the capitalized form of the word based on the patristic writings that call the true church the Catholic Church? If so, that's understandable. But in modern English, 'Catholic' with a big C means 'under the Pope', which you most vehemently are not. OTOH, Dustin and I agree with you that BCs are not 'Orthodox' (big O). ]
Serge, you know darn well it is! Since we've gone all through this countless times on other sites. But that is only part of it. I don't intend to go thru another round with you here. That is unless you can show some positive proof the the Holy Orthodox Church left that original 'One Holy Catholic and Apostolic Church' we profess belief in at every Liturgy when we recite the Nicene Creed which is the core of our beliefs as Orthodox. And, is therefore, no longer a part of it.
As an Orthodox Christian my Catholicity isn't dependent upon the American Collegiate dictionary, whats PC, or what the average man on the street thinks. Its dependent upon the history and councils of the undivided Holy Catholic and Apostolic Church which no other Church protects and adheres to more than the Orthodox Church.
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By V. Rev. Damian Krehel