Originally posted by LatinCat:
[QUOTE]Originally posted by Elitoft:
You cannot even resolve what is going on in your own Church without consulting the Church. Why would you come to some other Church and express "confusion" when you don't show any evidence, yet, of having consulted your own Church's teachings concerning the very questions that you ask.
Eli
[QUOTE] Look, I am not saying you guys are all messed up. God give me patience. I am just trying to understand the east a bit better. You'll have excuse my ignorance that is in the process of seeking undestanding. I just want to be sure that the OFFICIAL position of the Eastern Churches to accept at least the substance of ALL the ecumenical/dogmatic councils and the infallible pronouncements of the Pope. Goodness gracious.
Not too many posts ago you appeared to be letting us know that you were very well informed as a Latin Catholic, and NOW you are begging our condescension to your ignorance?
Let us be blunt with one another:
When you can demonstrate that ALL Latin rite Catholics are correct on ALL points of Catholic teaching, then you may come east and seek the same among those also in union with the pope of Rome.
Have you ever read the Code of Canons for east and west? Perhaps you can begin there for official letters of the law. Then you can work on the spirit which you will find in various catechetical materials.
So. Why ELSE are you here?
Eli
