After being in schism from the Catholic Church, is the schismatic Orthodox Church ever going to convert back to the Catholic Church? They have been separated from the Body of Christ for almost 1,000 years. Are they ever going to convert back to the faith of Christ again?
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What a presumptuous question. The Catholicism has a hotline to God and the Orthodox are the “separated ones”, is that what you’re trying to insinuate?
The orthodox church is the older of the two.
The catholic church split from it after the fall of Rome, to the Visigoths.
Apparently you fail at history.
Catholicism broke from orthodoxy.
The Orthodox don’t need to “convert back to the faith of Christ.” They’re Christians.
As to whether the schism will ever be healed — I hope so, but it’s not happening anytime soon. I don’t think there’s much motivation among the Orthodox to make it happen. A decent number are still quite anti-Western, or believe that Catholics are heretics, and hence have no desire to reunite.
Current ecumenical talks between the Catholics and Orthodox are focusing on the big issue of what the primacy of the papacy meant back in the first millennium. I do hope they prove useful.
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