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Evils that Divide the Church, Schism

Evils that Divide the Church Schism Okay, we admit it.  The Catholic Church is guilty of shameful, sinful terrible acts against others: atrocities.  Well, not all of these acts were atrocities. The Great Schism So, in 1054 Michael I Cerularius and Humbert of Silva Candida, in a fit of pique and pride, excommunicated each other.  It was a tempest in a teapot, affecting little else than these two individuals.  It was so shameful that it has since been vacated by both the Roman and Constantinopolitan Churches.  You can read some of the sordid details for yourself. [1]   Constantinople was still the political, if not the spiritual, capital of the Roman Empire, which is why there were Greeks in southern Italy.  It is beyond our scope to discover why the Normans invaded.  This is very obviously, a political turf war brought about by factors, such as: the political vacuum caused by moving the capital from Rome to Byzantium; the sack of Rome b...
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Evils that Divide the Church, Predestination and Will

Evils that Divide the Church Predestination and Will Introduction It must be Spring Fever, Cabin Fever, escape from hibernation, or something like that.  The Punxsutawney Phil (or Bill) of sacred theology has, once again, unleashed his wrath upon us.  It seems like, every year at about this time, half the preachers on earth are compelled to dust off their moldy sermons on the subject of predestination and will: most of them wrong; most of them unnecessarily stirring up centuries-old disagreement and strife in the Church, over things that should have been, and really were resolved ages ago. Frankly, I’m sick of hearing about the inanity of the fellow who falls down the stairs, only to exclaim, “Thank God, that’s over.”  As though God, somehow or other pushed him down the stairs; God, according to this perverted side of the story, is the responsible cause of his fall; the individual is not responsible for failing to clean up the mess over which he tripped and fell. ...
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