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...