Why Doesn't Rome Give Up Her Heresies and Come Back into Communion With The Eastern Christian Churches?

[sancte_joseph]

Why can’t the orthodox church just accept the pope as the vicar of christ and then it could just keep all its traditions with its liturgy like the eastern churches in communion with rome…

 

[Isa_Almisry]

Why can’t the orthodox church just accept the pope as the vicar of christ and then it could just keep all its traditions with its liturgy like the eastern churches in communion with rome…

I am with you always, even to the end of the Age.

The Bible.

The Seven Councils.

Latinization.

St. Alexis Toth.

History.

 

[Isa_Almisry]

last time I checked, Peter was the first leader of the Christian church, personally chosen by Christ Himself.

And, as the Bible records, founded the Church of Antioch where his successor still sits on his Chair and is in communion with him and his Church.

The Orthodox split was in 1000 something, over 900 years later.

Yes, We insisted on keeping the Creed and you innovated (and overthrew your own Roman precedent) and changed it.

The Catholic Church has always been…since that moment when Peter was chosen to lead.

The term Catholic Church is first attested from one of those successors of St. Peter, Ignatius of Antioch, writting to a Church in the Patriarchate of Constantinople.

Can you explain more about the “Heresies” you speak of?

Filioque. Vatican I. We can start with those. They have been discussed much.

 

[Isa_Almisry]

Edit:

This quote is from the letter of the Third Council of Constantinople to Pope Agatho:

“Up to now grief, sorrow, and many tears have been our portion. For we cannot laugh at the fall of our neighbours, nor exult with joy at their unbridled madness, nor have we been elated that we might fall all the more grievously because of this thing; not thus, O venerable and sacred head, have we been taught, we who hold Christ, the Lord of the universe, to be both benign and man-loving in the highest degree; for he exhorts us to be imitators of him in his priesthood so far as is possible, as becomes the good, and to obtain the pattern of his pastoral and conciliatory government.”

Wasn’t this the same letter when they anathematized Pope Honorius of Rome?

 

[Therese_Martin]

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