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Entry: Kosovo, Russia, and the Last Grasps of American Unipolarity Link: http://www.takimag.com/site/article/kosovo_and_the_last_grasps_of_american_unipolarity#18488 Post contents: Mr. Big Mac you wrote: “I trully believe that willing and faithful Catholics and Orthodox must continue to strive for reconciliation and unity. While full communion may not be within our grasp, certainly a workable relationship can and should be developed...as I believe is being done.” Full communion? Really now. Just which side gives in? Immaculate Conception, Infallibility of the Holy Roman Pontiff & the doctrine on the procession of the Holy Ghost. Big Mac are the Roman Catholics the ones that have to give up these points in order for you to declare that a workable relationship is being done. In case most of you have forgotten the problems caused by schism. Read the following from Pope Nicholas: “It is now clearly demonstrated that Photius took part in the schism. He left the world to be ordained bishop by Gregory of Syracuse, who had been deposed and excommunicated some time before. Like a thief in the night who enters the flock to steal away sheep, he usurped the See of Constantinople from our Brother Patriarch Ignatius. Afterward, he joined those who had condemned our Predecessor of happy memory, Pope Benedict. Breaking his word, he convened a council in which he dared to anathematize and depose our Brother Patriarch Ignatius. Acting against the law of the peoples [Jus gentium], he corrupted the emissaries of this Holy See and obliged them to scorn and disobey our commands. He persecuted - and to this date still persecutes - the Church, and ceaselessly inflicts terrible sufferings on the Holy Patriarch Ignatius, our Brother. “By the authority of Almighty God, the Apostles Sts. Peter and Paul and all the Saints, and the six General Councils, the Holy Ghost pronounces this judgment through us: Let this Photius, guilty of so many crimes, be deprived of every priestly honor and every ecclesiastical function. “Let him be excluded without hope of re-entering the communion of the Church. Let him be anathematized without receiving the Body and Blood of Jesus Christ, except in danger of death.” Sent at: 2008 08 08