Catholic v. Orthodox

In response to a post a couple months ago on my personal blog, Square Zero, entitled, “The Orthodox and Contraception” a Byzantine Catholic named Karen commented that the Orthodox ambiguity on the contraception issue was the one thing holder her back from converting to Orthodoxy. We had a brief exchange in the comments section of that post, but then I expanded on the issue she had raised in a longer entry entitled, “Catholic v. Orthodox”.

I thought the issues I addressed there, and the subsequent discussion in the comments to the post, might be of interest to readers of BEMA. But rather than cross-post the original article here, and split up the discussion between two different blogs, I thought it would be better to link to the article at Square Zero and invite BEMA readers to visit.

I am especially keen for more knowledgable folks to address some of the important issues Karen has raised, like:

• The Filioque
• The Immaculate Conception
• The monarchial papacy

You can read the full post here.