Quote from: Machabees

Quote from: AJNC

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The Church exceptionally supplies jurisdiction to an Orthodox cleric only when a Catholic turns to him for sacramental help when in danger of death.

Yes, because of the valid Sacraments that they have; [though] I believe the validity of the priesthood is in question.  

I remember reading somewhere that a Pre-Vat. II Pope spoke on this subject; because of the schism over time, one of the necessary: form, matter, or intention, had changed somewhere.  So I do not quite remember if today the Orthodox priesthood is still valid or not, and if so, when that date was when it was pronounced from the Church.

Does anyone know that answer?

The schism which separated the Orthodox from the Church was A.D. 1054.

It isn't the VALIDITY of the Orthodox priesthood that is in question.  It is rather
a question of LICIT vs. ILLICIT.  Since the matter is on the doctrinal level,
this licitness is decisive.  The Orthodox reject the necessity of every human
creature to be subject to the Roman Pontiff.  Therefore, all their sacraments
are illicit.  As a point of clarification, independent Roman Rite priests and
sede priests do not deny this principle, rather there are other issues at stake.

It was explained to me recently that while their holy orders are valid, they
are illicit, since the Orthodox prescind in principle from subjection to the
Roman Pontiff -- that is, they deny the necessity to be subject to the Pope
of the Catholic Church.  They have other errors that proceed from this,
including denial of Papal Infallibility (on principle), denial of the Immaculate
Conception (apparently more of a political position than doctrinal, although
it certainly appears to be doctrinal), and denial of the Assumption of Our
Lady (again, a matter of convenience, for the Assumption has been of
ancient observance - it's only the fact that its DEFINITION was under the
auspices of papal infallibility, which is tied to the primacy of the Pope and
his right to authority over "every human creature").  

Orthodox, like Protestants, provide valid Baptism, for example, but only
because it is the Baptism of the Roman Catholic Church which they have
stolen.  It is not their sacrament.  And just as there is no salvation in the
Protestant heresy, so too there is no salvation in the Orthodox heresy.  A
child who is baptized by either one and then dies before the age of reason
is saved by the grace of Baptism, which is from the Catholic Church, which
is from Our Lord Jesus Christ.  

But the Orthodox have the other sacraments too, while the Protestants
only have Baptism -- yes, but the other sacraments are likewise stolen
from the Catholic Church.  The Orthodox have Confession, Holy
Communion, Confirmation, Holy Orders, Matrimony and Extreme Unction,
but these do not belong to the Orthodox, but rather belong to the Catholic
Church, and the Orthodox use them illicitly.  

Even though they have valid Eucharist, the people who receive it do not
thus receive the grace of salvation from the Orthodox, and any grace they
do receive is from the Catholic Church, outside of which there is no salvation.

Most tragically, anyone who dies as an Orthodox, in abject refusal to be
subject to the Roman Pontiff, cannot be saved, just as anyone who dies as
a Protestant, cursing and hating the Catholic Church, cannot be saved.