Schism - chances in the next 10 years?

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It can be argued that the RCC created the Anglican schism when it refused.to expand the tent to include Anglicanism. The RCC also created the Lutheran schism the same way.
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Not buying that the RCC created schisms. The RCC, and individual clergy within it, have committed human mistakes and sometimes sins. That does not justify the sin of the person who walks away from the Church over it, or put the responsibility for that sin back on the RCC rather than on the person who made the wrong and sinful choice to distance themselves from Jesus and His Church.

The Protestants schismed, they did wrong, they sinned. Even if the RCC did some wrong things, the Protestant response to the wrongs was in itself wrong and sinful and not excusable. In any event, as my aunt once said to a Lutheran who said, “We left because you had a bad Pope!”: “We have a new Pope now so why don’t you all come back?”
 
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I don’t doubt the sin of those who left the RCC. Just saying, where dogmas are preserved, schisms will be a likely, not a desired consequence.

The most schism proof denomination may be the Unitarians. This is where most, maybe all, Protestantism is headed. And liberal “Catholicism” too.
 
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Didn’t Christianity begin as a schism in Judaism? Was this a good thing?
 
Christianity wasn’t intended to be a schism, and if Jewish people had done the right thing and all followed Jesus, it wouldn’t have been. More like those who decided to reject Jesus as the Messiah created the schism, not Jesus and not Christians. The door is always open for those who change their minds and accept Our Lord and His Church.
 
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Christianity wasn’t intended to be a schism, and if Jewish people had done the right thing and all followed Jesus, it wouldn’t have been. More like those who decided to reject Jesus as the Messiah created the schism, not Jesus and not Christians. The door is always open for those who change their minds and accept Our Lord and His Church.
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On that basis, nothing is a schism, since schismatic leaders always intend that everyone agree with them!
 
I’ll admit that I am biased, but basically when you distance yourself from, or refuse to join, Jesus’ One Holy Catholic and Apostolic Church, then you’re the one who’s in schism.

The Jewish faith is not the One Holy Catholic and Apostolic Church.

This thread is also about schisms in the Catholic Church. Not schisms that somebody perceived happened to some other church. And this is a Catholic forum.

If Jewish people want to see Catholics as schismatic Jewish people, then that’s their prerogative, but it makes little sense. The Catholic Church also did not position itself as a branch of Judaism. It threw the doors open to gentiles as well as Jews and did not require all the new members to follow Jewish dietary laws or Jewish circumcision laws. It was the New Covenant.
 
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