Well, well, well...
This is not a surprise to me, the original OP, that this thread has turned into the usual point-fingers-and-shout match typical of Cathinfo fame. No, not at all am I surprised and it proves to me a point that you all would find interesting if you had the heart to listen to an opinion that is unlike your own.
I want to make a few points, so listen well, lectore:
a) It is hardly surprising to me that there are staunch supporters of this heretic on this forum, for this is a forum full of those who love to cause strife, whose pride knows no bound and is a stench unto heaven itself; a forum who allows women to be the callers of Catholic crusades and allows them to freely teach and to suppose an authority that in fact has never been granted to them: to teach and to have authority over men; a forum that would rather spend hours trying to justify tobacco use and the occult arts in a book written by a pseudo-Catholic than coming together to end a common malady; a forum that focuses on the differences rather than the similarities that we have in order to overcome the common enemy in those broods of vipers, the rejected ones! A forum that, as far as I have seen, never desires to gather together into one, unilateral entity to tackle the problem head on. Indeed, most of the time when I post here there is always the lurker who creeps out of the shadows in order to rain fire and brimstone on a sentence said in passing. Truly straining a gnat and swallowing a camel.
b) Exactly why do you think we are in this crisis at the moment? Well, because there are people out there who would just want to argue about just about anything. "I am right and you are wrong." The point I made was quite clear, I think. Brother Nathaniel, being a heretic, should be denounced as one and any action that he makes that is uncharitable should be called out as such. We should even be doing this among our fellow brethren as well. Any information acquired from him should be just that: information. We should denounce this individual as a pervader of heresy by his very association with an entity that claims to be the one true Church: which in and of itself is enough for me to love the sinner but hate the sin, to use a common colloquial phrase. May God save this man and others from the error he believes in.
c) A word of advice for those who might listen: as long as we remain separated, as long as we go on as a machine whose parts have been ripped from it, as long as we remain in the present state of strife and contention: NO AMOUNT OF ARGUING IS GOING TO SAVE YOU FROM THE INEVITABLE. You can argue all you want, you can argue all the way to the ends of the Earth: you can argue in the depths of hell but any and all arguing that is perpetrated by you and others will never solve this crisis we are in. Only unification and coming together as Catholics will.
We will fail unless we come together. Unless we all put a stop to this.
It will end. It just takes teamwork and acting in a unilateral fashion. THAT'S IT.
Sorry, But you are dead wrong.
Brother Nathaniel is not a 'heretic' But a Schismatic.
They have Valid Sacraments and a Valid mass. Orthodox always have. Some have been reunited with The Church. The Maronites for example.
Some Charity would go a long way for you and others.
Ive read Brother Nathaniel for years and havent found anything suspect in his writings or actions. Though Im not a Putin Fan.
He is a man of action and principle and I commend him for that.
Far as the charge of heresy, The Vatican itself and those leading it, have or are falling also into that category. We have no room to talk...
Fighting Serves the J EW. We need to Unite, as Christians and Brothers.
A) Maronites never left the Church, they've been with Her since the days of the Apostles.
B) The Orthodox are heretics. They deny the dogma of Our Lady's Assumption and the most Immaculate Conception - add to that infallibility of the pope.
You are right about the Maronites, but there have been other Eastern rite Catholics, once called schismatics, now in communion with The Church, Chaldeans for example..
On The Orthodox, you are incorrect however.
"The Orthodox Church calls Mary all-holy, immaculate, free from actual sin. The Orthodox Church has never made any formal and definitive pronouncement on the matter of the Immaculate Conception.
In the past, individual Orthodox theologians have made statements that, if not definitively affirming the Doctrine of Immaculate Conception, at any rate closely approach it.
But since 1854, the great majority of Orthodox reject it as necessary; as implying a false understanding of original sin; as suspecting the doctrine because it seems to separate Mary from the rest of the descendants of Adam and Eve, putting her in a different class.
However, if an individual Orthodox today felt impelled to believe it, he could not be termed a heretic for doing so."
Bishop Kallistos is a Spaulding Lecturer of Eastern Christianity at Oxford University of England. He has not been "corrected" by his Patriarchs (presently, His Holiness Bartholomew), or the Holy Synod of the Patriarchate of Constantinople, for his words.
Other Orthodox theologians have stated that the doctrine of Immaculate Conception might be an unrevealed mystery within the Church; that is, a "theologeuma". There has never been a definitive pronouncement by the seven original Ecuмenical Councils (the only ones Eastern Orthodoxy recognize as "Ecuмenical") declaring this long-known theology a heresy.
The Eastern & Oriental Orthodox claim that dogma must be Christ-centered, but one can easily sidestep such by simply asking if the perpetual virginity of Mary is Christ-centered (Mary's perpetual virginity after Jesus' birth was proclaimed as dogma for the Catholic Church at the Third Ecuмenical Council of Constantinople of AD 681). Within the Byzantine Divine Liturgy of St John Chrysostom, we often proclaim "ever-Virgin Mary", which adds a liturgical tradition to this subject.
The reasons we are not united are and were political, not doctrinal, not theological for the most part.
Leavening of bread and the word filoque.
I suspect power players were behind this.....to divide and conquer.
Even the catechism make no prouncements such as you have of there being any heresy among the Orthodox. YOU really should show more humbleness and charity towards your Eastern Brothers.