How long have the Roman Catholics and Orthodox Catholics not talked to each other?

Answer 1

Orthodox and Catholics separated from one another in 1054. There are very few theological differences. The main difference is that the Orthodox Churches (http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/11329a.htm) use the Byzantine Rite (http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/04312d.htm) and the Catholic Church use the Roman or Latin Rite.

Pope John Paul II said of the Orthodox Churches in Orientale Lumen, "A particularly close link already binds us. We have almost everything in common." (see http://www.vatican.va/holy_father/john_paul_ii/apost_letters/documents/hf_jp-ii_apl_02051995_orientale-lumen_en.html )

+ Ecumenism +

"The Catholic Church embraces with hope the commitment to ecumenism as a duty of the Christian conscience enlightened by faith and guided by love…Jesus himself, at the hour of his Passion, prayed 'that they may all be one' (John 17:21)." -- Pope John Paul II, Ut Unum Sint, May 25, 1995.

The Catholic Church in the United States already has the following open dialogs with her sister Churches:

- The North American Orthodox-Catholic Theological Consultation
- The Joint Committee of Orthodox and Catholic Bishops
- The Oriental Orthodox-Roman Catholic Consultation
- The Polish National Catholic-Roman Catholic Dialogue
- The Anglican-Roman Catholic Consultation USA
- The Lutheran-Catholic Dialogue
- Roman Catholic-Reformed Consultation
- The United Methodist-Catholic Dialogue
- Southern Baptist Convention-Catholic Dialogue
- The Evangelical-Catholic Dialogue
- Faith and Order Commission, National Council of Churches of Christ in the USA
- Consultation with the National Council of Synagogues
- Consultation with the Orthodox Union and the Rabbinical Council of America
- Midwest Dialogue of Catholics and Muslims
- Mid-Atlantic Dialogue of Catholics and Muslims
- West Coast Dialogue of Catholics and Muslims

Here is the joint declaration of justification by Catholics (1999), Lutherans (1999), and Methodists (2006):

By grace alone, in faith in Christ's saving work and not because of any merit on our part, we are accepted by God and receive the Holy Spirit, who renews our hearts while equipping us and calling us to good works.

http://www.vatican.va/roman_curia/pontifical_councils/chrstuni/documents/rc_pc_chrstuni_doc_31101999_cath-luth-joint-declaration_en.html

http://www.usccb.org/seia/officialdialogues.shtml

+ With love in Christ.

Answer 2

the variations are as follows. The Orthodox settle for the perfect sayso from a conciliar physique. Catholicism from the Pope on my own. The Orthodox do no longer settle for the dogma that Mary, the mum of God develop into glorified upon her demise and raised actual into heaven purely as develop into her Son. Catholics do. The Orthodox settle the question of the date of Easter utilising a various calendar and time length than Catholicsm makes use of. The Orthodox have used the community languages of their adherents for many centuries. Catholics purely began after Vatican II. The Orthodox enable married clergy, besides the reality that a married priest should not be elected a bishop. Catholicism demands a celibate clergy. The Orthodox have been in the previous each and every thing Caesaropapists, it quite is, content fabric to allow Caesar an equivalent sayso interior the governance of the church besides in its ritual expressions of religion. Rome never did that, no longer even for the duration of the so-referred to as Babylonian Exile of the Popes, ie while the French monarchy tried to place of their very own pope in Avignon and make him their puppet. the different cardinals purely elected somebody else, placed him in Rome and disregarded the Frogs. It labored too. finally absolutely everyone have been given the message and the Avignon pope "abdicated" and allowed as how Rome develop into interior the best and France develop into incorrect, incorrect, incorrect.

Answer 3

that is a good question and if it is true I have no idea but Christians should not hold grudges so it just proves neither are christian.