[Apologetics] Relics Belonged to the CATHOLIC Church, NOT the Eastern Orthodox Church

[Art Kelly]

After 800 years, church leaders are still making bones
over claim to saintly relics 

John Hooper in Rome
Sunday November 28, 2004
The Observer 

Roman Catholics and Orthodox Christians were last
night locked in dispute over an 800-year-old war crime
and a box of 1,600-year-old bones that was meant to
have brought them a giant step closer to
reunification.

At a ceremony in St Peter's Basilica yesterday the
Vatican handed back relics belonging to two saints of
inestimable importance to the Orthodox world. It had
been hoped the return of the remains of the 4th
century prelates, St John Chrysostom and St Gregory
the Theologian, would be the most important symbolic
contribution to relations between the two churches
since the meeting between Pope Paul VI and the then
titular head of the Orthodox Christians 40 years ago.

But as the two men's successors, Pope John Paul II and
the ecumenical Patriarch Bartholomew I, presided over
the ritual, the Pope's spokesman issued a statement
contradicting the Orthodox version of history.

The entire article is at
http://observer.guardian.co.uk/international/story/0,6903,1361252,00.html

Saint John Chrysostom and Saint Gregory Nazianzen
belong to the history of the Catholic Church, not the
Eastern Orthodox church. The Eastern Orthodoxers had
the relics after they broke away from Catholicism. The
Crusaders were right to retrieve them.

Art 

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