Israel backtracks after Italy leads outrage at denied access to Holy Sepulchre

I mean, they have had multiple popes at the same time. A west and east pope. It's how we got Eastern Orthodoxy.

There is a small group of refounded Hussites that's in Czechia. They're spiritual cousins of the other surviving group, the Moravian Church.

While the Orthodox and Catholic Churches are very similar in many respects, they are not in communion with each other at the present moment.

Ah, i thought reformed (calvinist) / anglican were considered their own protestant offshoot. Main protestant line being lutherian. Orthodox is not in communion as far google suggests. Could be wrong tho.

Just to explain some more. Orthodox is NOT Protestant. Its also NOT in communion with the Catholic Church. Anglicanism, or the Church of England, IS Protestant and IS in communion. The key difference as to why Anglicans are in communion, besides years of diplomacy, was because Henry VIII was upset over a marriage and not actual religious doctrine. Anglican beliefs and practices arent that removed from Roman Catholic ones. Orthodox (Greek, Russian, etc) had religious AND political differences. But for the entirety of medieval and Renaissance times since the Schism, both sides did hold out that they could merge back. Even if thats not likely now, both the Patriarch and the Pope agree on several things and work together as major religious leaders. To get more different, there are also other Catholic Churches. For example, in Lebanon, there is the Maronite Catholic Church which follows the Pope but is not Roman Catholic. I am not hearing much in America condemning the violence towards them by Israel. Finally, there is a Roman Catholic movement of "sed evantis" or "empty seat" (of my Latin is right), who believe the Pope has been empty since Vatican II and Pope John. They believe he was a Free Mason or something, and therefore excommunicated.

There may have been strong anti-Catholic sentiment among Anglican immigrants hundreds of years ago, but Episcopalians - what Anglicans in the U.S. became after the Revolutionary War - over the past hundred or more years have pretty much been the most progressive mainline Christians in the U.S., and haven’t had, as an institution, strong anti-Catholic sentiment in even longer. The strong anti-Catholic sentiment comes from Baptists and their splinter groups, basically people who both didn’t want some foreigner dictating their religion, be it the pope or the English crown, *and* thought that Catholics, Episcopalians, Lutherans, et al, weren’t h******* fire & brimstone enough. It comes from all the nutjobs in the Great Awakenings in the mid-19th century (to be clear, there were some good things that came out of the Great Awakenings, but all of today’s American Christian evangelical loons and grifters come out of those movements as well).

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