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Catholic Christian. Son. Brother. Husband. Father. American. Conservative. Soldier. Friend.
Why Cornelius Julius Sebastian? "Brasidas" was taken (again), so I went with my Facebook (FB) moniker. I was new to FB and only joined because I was deploying and thought it would be a good way to keep in touch with my family and friends. I had heard lots of stories about folks being inundated with friends requests on FB from folks they really had no interest in being in contact with, so I decided to go with a pseudonym. I've always been fascinated classical Rome and its military. I have also always identified with the several Roman soldiers who interact or speak with Christ in the Gospels. Especially as someone who for a time rejected the Christian Faith (the Roman soldiers who scourged and crucified Christ), then later was compelled by Christ's example to return to His Church ("Lord, I am not worthy that you should enter under my roof...."). So, I ran a highly unscientific Google search for the most common names for Roman centurions and the first three that came up were Cornelius, Julius and Sebastian, thus my FB, and now Ricochet, nom de guerre.
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Re: God Is A Socialist
Jeff
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Christianity was a sect...
This is true of the Church of Rome but not of the Church. The Orthodox have never had a hierarchy like that of Rome.
Half of Catholic christians are not organized like a Roman army. They practice the traditional teachings of the church: each bishop is equal to every other.They are in apostolic succession and practice in the full authority of the traditions of the Church.
There is no single, temporal head of the Church as the Patriarch of the West, the Bishop of Rome, claims. The Patriarch of Constantinople is a spokesman for the autocephalous churches, and he is primate of one of them. He is elected for his penitence, piety, and prudence. He is not supreme but primary.
Not all Catholics are Roman. The Church is not the Latin church. ·
With the xception of the Curia, and College of Cardinals, the Orthodox hierachy is very much the same as the Catholic hierarchy. Deacons, Priests, Bishops (offices identified in the NT), though they have Metropolitans and Patriarchs. Unsurprising since we were all the same Church until ~1054 AD. There are many non-Roman rite Catholics nevertheless in union with Rome.