Explore Part VIII of the Western Series on Orthodox Reflections: An Orthodox perspective on the roots of the 1054 Great Schism, papal supremacy, and how these issues set the stage for the Protestant Reformation, Martin Luther’s break with Rome, and the ongoing theological divide between Eastern Orthodoxy and Western Christianity.
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Is God angry, aloof, and looking to punish mankind with illness and death for our sins? Or is God love? How can we understand all this in an authentically Christian way?
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Is Patriarch Bartholomew an Orthodox hierarch, or a Globalist asset? Compare his record of chasing money and political influence with that of Patriarch Daniel of Romania.
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Francis of Assisi is one of the few figures in the post-Orthodox West that bears even a slight resemblance to humanity’s first parents before the Fall, or to the many Orthodox saints throughout Church history who regained the ‘fragrance of Paradise’. Unfortunately, he is an unreliable spiritual guide.
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Following his brutal murder, Charlie Kirk has passed to his eternal reward. Now begins the brutal battle over his legacy.
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Many traditionalists tout a return to Roman Catholicism as a way to renew a declining Western world. Returning to a deficient, non-Apostolic faith will not help.
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In the First Millennium, there was One, Holy, Catholic and Apostolic Church over which the Roman Popes were never supreme. Papal Supremacy was not a development of Christian doctrine, but a radical departure from it.
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If the supremacy and infallibility of the Roman Popes were of Apostolic origin, then we would expect to have seen these dogmas “believed everywhere, always, and by all”. Were the Popes really supreme in the 1st Millennium?
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For Orthodox Christians, ecumenism — interreligious unity — is prohibited. Because there is only one Christ, there is only one Church. Therefore, praying with, worshipping with, or sharing Holy Communion with other groups, including Roman Catholics, is heretical. But the relentless ecumenists are inside the gates, so now what?
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What is the purpose of having an economy? Is it to make a few people insanely rich? To provide employment for foreign workers? What if the real reason was in front of us the whole time, but we simply couldn’t see it?
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