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The lack of direct Papal oversight was more due to a lack of technological ability to exercise such authority over a long distance with limited communication than it was due to a lack of belief in Roman primacy. Despite these technological difficulties, bishops sometimes gathered at the ecumenical ...

Papal primacy was rejected by the Orthodox Catholic Church at the Council of Constantinople in 879-880, in canon 1, at the time of St. Photius. The then Pope John VIII confirmed these decisions, and it is not clear why Roman Catholics reject them. There is some debate withing the Orthodox Church whe...

Theistic evolution contradicts Romans 1:19-20 (“For what can be known about God is evident to them, because God made it evident to them. Ever since the creation of the world, his invisible attributes of eternal power and divinity have been able to be understood and perceived in what he has made. As ...

There is no such thing as "The Orthodox Church." There are only Orthodox Churches, and that's why I'm not Orthodox. The term "Orthodox Church" does exist. This can be seen, for instance, in the following document, approved by the Council held in Crete in 2016, "Message of t...

I think at any rate it's safe to say that thinking of hell as empty involves a clear heresy, since the demons are eternally there. So the Pope is saying a heresy, but not as an ex cathedra statement, but as his private opinion. Is he guilty of being "negligent"? Why am I asking this -- be...

Simply wasn't baptised into it. I was baptised in the Orthodox Church, but the history of the Great Schism has always been interesting to me, because it has alway amazed me that there are more believers in Roman Catholic Churches than in the Orthodox Church. from what little I know of Orthodoxy (is...

What are your reasons for not chosing the Orthodox Church?

Yes. Russia is acting in the same way with respect to Ukraine as did NATO with respect to Kosovo. For this reason, NATO does not have right to judge Russia or to give weapons to Ukraine. Let me get this right -- because Nato recognized the independence of Kosovo, we do NOT have the right to recogni...

I'm not well-versed in geo-politics, but in general was it a bad decision on the US's part to get involved the way we have? Yes. Russia is acting in the same way with respect to Ukraine as did NATO with respect to Kosovo. For this reason, NATO does not have right to judge Russia or to give weapons ...

Hi everyone! I'm still here too. I'm Orthodox, 37 years old. I was always interested in the issue of the Great Schism (the schism between the Orthodox and the Roman Catholic Churches, which began in 1054).