In other words, the Holy Spirit protects the pope from teaching heresy. While Catholicism uses Luke as justification for papal infallibility, the Orthodox and the Church Fathers do not. Curiously enough, there is no single, agreed-upon list of infallible statements made by the pope, or a list of criteria for what constitutes a statement made ex cathedra. The most obvious concern here is this: what do you do if the pope is a heretic? Can he be deposed? If so, who has the authority to do that?
The Orthodox hierarchy need not trouble itself with these sorts of questions, since Orthodox clergymen including ecumenical patriarchs can and have been deposed on a number of occasions, without presupposing the collapse of the entire Christian Church. Rome officially declared this doctrine at the Second Council of Lyons.
We also see similar language in the current Catechism of the Catholic Church The Orthodox can agree with this approach, though we ultimately reject the way the filioque was inserted into the Creed.
The Orthodox object to the filioque for several reasons. First , it deliberately changes the words of Christ in John Christ specifically says that the Spirit proceeds from the Father, not the Father and the Son.
Second , it violates the perfect balance of Trinitarian theology. In this balance, any particular attribute can belong either to the divine Nature the Godhead or to one Person Father, Son, or Holy Spirit. If the eternal procession of the Spirit belongs to both the Father and the Son, the Spirit is subordinated, because He does not possess something the other two Persons do. And thirdly , the addition of the filioque was uncanonical.
The Second Ecumenical Council ratified the Creed as it now stands. Its inviolability was confirmed by several popes anathematizing any changes to it. Another difference between the Orthodox and Catholic understanding of God is absolute divine simplicity. This can get a bit complex, but we will try to simplify the differences here as much as possible. Catholicism claims that the essence of God who He is in Himself is identical to the attributes of God what can be said about Him.
This makes the Catholic version of God far less approachable or near to us, because He is only Himself. We cannot experience Him in any tangible, realistic way. The Orthodox faith, on the other hand, teaches that God is both unknowable essence and knowable energies, following the teachings of Gregory Palamas and the ancient Church Fathers i. Basil the Great. Imagine the sun.
The sun is unknowable in its essence its primary substance , because any human being who attempts to get close enough would be destroyed. Yet as human beings, we can interact with the sun through its energies the heat it radiates, the light it provides, and the energy it gives off to feed plants, which in turn provide oxygen for us to breathe. The same is true of God. We will never know Him in His essence, but we can know Him through His energies, most particularly Grace.
Regardless of how old we are, we never stop learning. Classroom is the educational resource for people of all ages. Based on the Word Net lexical database for the English Language. See disclaimer. About the Author Natasha Brandstatter is an art historian and writer. Related Articles. The Roman Catholic Church is generally known as the Catholic church; is the enormous Christian church. Their central authority is based in the Holy See located in the Vatican city.
The Roman Church is used to describe the Pope diocese of Rome. The development and history of Western civilization are greatly influenced by this church. The Bishop of Rome is regarded as chief Pastor. Catholics believe that God talks through the Pope. And also the Catholic priests are not allowed to marry. The main goal of Catholics in terms of salvation is to escape hell and achieve theosis as well. The Catholic Church consists of seven sacraments:.
Catholics believe that there is one eternal God- the Holy Trinity. Catholic men are restrained for Holy orders, while the Catholic women and the nuns engage themselves in developing and running health and education services internationally. The event of confessing to their sins is strictly followed by the Catholics. The orthodox church is also known as the Eastern Orthodox church.
Orthodox believers reject the infallibility of the pope and consider their own patriarchs, too, as human and thus subject to error. In this way, they are similar to Protestants, who also reject any notion of papal primacy. Virgin Mary: The Orthodox faith rejects the Catholic doctrine of the Immaculate Conception of the Virgin Mary, in which Jesus' mother was conceived without "original sin.
Bartholomew has angered Moscow Patriarch Kirill with his move to grant the Ukrainian church independence from Russia's church. Read more: The main differences between Catholics and Protestants.
Holy Spirit: One of the main differences between the churches concerns the provenance of the Holy Spirit, or God's spiritual presence on earth. It is one of the three parts of the Christian Trinity, the other two being God the Father and his human son, Jesus. The differences over this question were — and still are — one of the primary causes of the schism between the two churches.
Celibacy: In the Catholic Church, celibacy — the vow of abstaining from marriage and sexual relations — is obligatory for priests. Most Orthodox Churches have both ordained married priests and celibate monastics, so celibacy is an option. All of the bishops and patriarchs are normally taken from the ordained monks.. Protestants reject celibacy: 16th-century Reformer Martin Luther refused to accept that virginity was superior to marriage.
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