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As a matter of fact, the legitimate Patriarchate of Antioch has been in communion with the Roman Catholic Church since the 18th century so there goes your entire argument. Whooops!

Then why did you make Constantinople the "first among equals" after the break with Rome?

is doing a lot of heavy lifting.

St. Dismas died under the old dispensation. The old covenant equivalent to baptism was circumcision. And it's very likely he was indeed circumcised. The sacraments of the New Law, such as Christian baptism and the Eucharist, are part of the New Covenant, which was not fully in place until Jesus...

In order to remain Catholic, it is absolutely necessary to stay away from the Novus Ordo. The problem with the SSPX is that while rejecting certain aspects of the new religion, they still recognize value and authority in the hierarchy that gave us Vatican II. The integral profession of the...

Christ has the right to dictate the conditions of salvation and He distinctly commanded Baptism as a condition of salvation. As for St. Dismas ('the good thief'), that was still under the old covenant. We live under the New Testament covenant, and therefore all are bound to receive the sacrament...

An example of Catholic theology vs. Modernist theology... Catholic Theology God does not demand the impossible. Doing X is impossible for me. But God demands that I do X. CATHOLICISM- Catholic theology reasons from truth revealed by God to a conclusion about how man must act. -> From...

From Outlines of Moral Theology, by Rev. Francis J. Connell, Imprimatur 1953, p.172: ibid., p. 231: The primary end of marriage is procreation, i.e. the generation and upbringing of children. There are also other purposes of marriage, such as mutual aid and the morally-regulated...

Met. Kallistos Ware's The Orthodox Church, 3rd edition, p. 289.

Too long; didn't read.

https://orthodoxwiki.org/Birth_Control_and_Contraception The dominant view in Eastern Orthodoxy is that non-abortifacient contraception is acceptable if it is used with the blessing one's spiritual father, and if it is not used to avoid having children for 'purely selfish' reasons.

The implication being...?

You do understand that to rule over and to serve are not mutually exclusive concepts, right? That is why one of the official titles used by the Roman Pontiffs is SERVUS SERVORUM DEI - that is, "the Servant of the servants of God".

Actual Orthodox theologians and scholars disagree with you. For example, in His Broken Body, Fr. Cleenewerck - an OCA priest - describes the doctrine of Petrine primacy as theologumenon, i.e. acceptable opinion, in the Eastern church, which was accepted by a number of those whom the Orthodox...