<head><style>body{font-family: Geneva,Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:9pt;background-color: #ffffff;color: black;}p{margin:0px}</style></head><body id="compText">Hmmmm. I've heard a number of rumors and "teasers" about this over the years. I'm not sure it'll happen quite yet. There are still issues between the two faith communities, and I think many Eastern Orthodox will oppose any type of union short of Catholics saying the Pope is first among equals, that on a number of things the Catholic Church went off the rails, that Catholics were wrong and Orthodox were right, etc. The Orthodox members I recall from some 10 years ago on Dave Armstrong's old forum were pretty vehement that any "unity" would pretty much involve Catholics saying "we were all wrong and you were all right", and scraping and bowing to the Orthodox with much mea culpaing all over the place. Besides a lot of Orthodox groups would consider any Orthodox-Catholic unity as a total sellout and condemn those that did particpate as no longer Orthodox but heterodox. Some of the extreme Orthodox groups make anti-Catholic fundamentalists look positively friendly.<br><br>Don't think this will happen yet. Shame, because if what I've seen of the Byzantine Catholic Rite is any indication, the Eastern Orthodox Divine Liturgy is one of the most beautiful forms of worship.<br><br>My two cents,<br><br>Bret<br><br><br><blockquote style="border-left: 2px solid rgb(0, 0, 255); padding-left: 5px; margin-left: 0px;">-----Original Message-----
<br>From: Art Kelly <arthurkelly@yahoo.com>
<br>Sent: Sep 16, 2009 8:16 PM
<br>To: Apologetics Group <apologetics@gathman.org>, Jim Murphy <jmurf80@bellsouth.net>
<br>Subject: [Apologetics] Is Catholic-Orthodox Unity in Sight?
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</p><div><strong><font color="#0000ff" size="3">Art</font></strong></div></td></tr></tbody></table><br>
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