difference between ortadox and cathlic?

Question

what the difference I don't see it!

Answer 1

It's spelled Orthodox and Catholic.

I think that the beliefs of Orthodox Christians are generally more traditional than those of Catholics.

Answer 2

These are mostly silly differences of doctrine as well as practice going back to the split between the Eastern and Western Roman Empires and the church leaders in each. The orthodox typically allow priests (but not bishops) to marry, for ex. However, the hypocrisy of the church leaders is revealed by the fact that some Orthodox churches have accepted the Pope as the head of the church and so they are accepted by the Catholics even though they keep their Orthodox ways. These are called Uniate churches. So this proves that no one really cares about the distinctions. All they really care about is power: does a given a church accept the Pope as the supreme leader or not. So this means u r right. The differences are not very significant.

Answer 3

Orthodox simply means (from Greek orthodoxos, “of the right opinion”), and is a word that more traditional churches various monotheistic faiths use to distinguish themselves from "Reformed" churches. There's a whole Orthodox/Reform dichotomy in the Judaism as well, but that's a different question.
Christianity as we know it started in Rome shortly after the life of Jesus of Nazareth. For the first several hundred years, there was much arguing between the first few generations of theologians, philosophers, and priests of this new faith, regarding doctrine, the compiling of the New Testament, what constituted "heresy," etc. As Christianity spread across Europe and into Russia, cultural alienation and variations in the assimilation of the faith by the populations caused different schools of thought to emerge, specifically regarding the role of the Pope in Rome, whom Roman Catholics believe continues to hold the tradition began by Simon Peter as the living leader and father of the church. In 1054 the leaders of the Western churches, based in Rome, and the leaders of the Eastern churches, based in Constantinople (which was Byzantium before that and eventually became Istanbul) officially condemned each other as both being heretics and The Great Schism took place, with an official split between the two churches. Thus, the birth of Roman Catholicism and Eastern Orthodox Catholicism.
The basic tenets of faith are the same regarding the story of Jesus' life and the Holy Trinity, but the fundamental difference is mostly that in the West, St. Augustine invented the concept of original sin, so Roman Catholicism (and all forms of Protestantism, which branched off in the 1500s) regard humanity as fundamentally sinful because of the sins of Adam and Eve, and through Jesus' sacrifice must be redeemed. Whereas Orthodox Catholicism believes that by choosing to become human in the form of Jesus and uniting himself with material life, God has opened the way for all humans to be united with him through the sacraments, which is ultimately a more optimistic way to look at things.
There are differences in the calendar of religious holidays, and in many other details, but that's the basic gist. More information can be found without too much trouble.

Answer 4

The Catholics and teh Orthodox split around 1050AD. The largest disagrrement was over whether the Bishop of Rome (now called the Pope) was the head of the church. The Orthodox church rejected that claim.

Their masses and theology were very close up to that time. Since then, they have grown apart.

The Orthodox church does not accept many Catholic teachings which have become common since the 11th century, including they do not pray to Mary or the other saints, their priest are permitted to marry, they do not permit statues within the churches (put they do have "icons', which are drawn images of God, Christ and the saints), they do not believe the communion elements become the body and blood of Christ, and they do not confess their sins to priest.

However their services are very similar as they were "one church" for the first 1000 years of their existence, where many of those rituals were developed.

Answer 5

The two biggest schismatic points between the Orthodox and Catholic are recognizing the bishop of Rome as the Pope (or Head of the Church in this world) and recognizing that the Holy Spirit flows between Jesus and the Father as well as from them both to us.

Catholics recognize that the Pope is the worldly head of the Church and that the Holy Spirit flows between the Godhead and to us from both Jesus and the Father.

Other than these two points and some traditions that are not Holy Tradition, the two are the same.

We are very close.

Yours in Christ Jesus, Grace (a Catholic convert that looked very closely at the Orthodox Church)

Answer 6

Can you explain to me what "Ortadox and Cathlic" are ?

Answer 7

If you mean between Catholic and Orthodox, the difference is the Orthodox(Greek, Russian) say Mass in a different language and they have their own hierarchy that is not in line with the Pope in Rome which is the hierarchy for Catholics.

Answer 8

Orthodox box left handed.

For those of you who do not understand my sense of humor,they call a fighter(boxer) who fights left handed orthodox.

Answer 9

...perhaps the amount you have to "slip" the priest to forgive your sins... Oye ! (The Church of Rome has wayyyyy to many "religious gymnastics" to be considered)

Answer 10

It's just like spelling dear, the differences are subtle...