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From the Catholic side<\/a> has been \u2018we\u2019re almost there, what\u2019s keeping you?\u2019 \u00a0From my talks with Orthodox priests, deacons and laity, the response seems to be \u2018when you abandon the idea of Papal Infallibility.\u2019 \u00a0Really, that\u2019s about it. \u00a0After all, that cuts against the crux of Orthodoxy\u2019s self identification. \u00a0The Ecumenical Councils as opposed to Divine Revelation only through a single person. \u00a0Which, by the way, is something some Orthodox point out that helped lay the groundwork for the Reformation. \u00a0After all, if a single Pope can receive infallible revelation, why not a single German monk? \u00a0There\u2019s a reason that Catholicism alone had a Reformation.<\/p>\n

Not that there aren\u2019t other disagreements. \u00a0Most of the bad blood seems to have gone away, as long as Catholics don\u2019t pull a \u2018serves them right\u2019 attitude that I\u2019ve caught once or twice on the blogosphere. \u00a0But on the whole, there isn\u2019t much holding them back but that one doctrine. \u00a0Just how willing the Catholic Church will be to meet them half way and abandon Papal Infallibility remains to be seen. \u00a0But as of now, it\u2019s a small, minor difference that, in the end, is a million miles wide, at least from the POV of most of the Orthodox I\u2019ve gotten to know.<\/p>\n<\/body><\/html>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"