"Old Calendarist in communion with Constantinople"
From a so-called "Old Calendarsist" persepective, this sounds awefully similiar to "Orthodox in communion with Rome". 
The "Non-Chalcedonians"
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Apostate, Schism or Heretics?
On OCNET, it is being discussed that the Antiochian Orthodox Church's Patriarch and its American Metropolitan have made it Official Church Policy to commune AND concelebrate with Non-Chalcedonians.
Now if Non-Chalcedonians are monophysites and are under anathema, does this make the Antiochian Orthodox Church apostate, schismatic or heretical?
Theologians from both Churches have agreed that division was a matter of semantics, which no longer exists today. Unity is not only possible but most desirable. It fulfills the will of God that "all may be one."
So it is only a matter of semantics? For the past 1500 years, with all of the great saints, it took us this long to realize it is only semantics? How did this reconciliation come about? WCC? Who are these theologians who maintain that it is only semantics? Are any of them monks? Are they all in academia? By the way, in Orthodoxy, isn't a theologian also an ascetic, at least that it used to be throughout history. The thing is, we live an era that is post-modern, are we sure that our bishops and our theologians are not suffering from the disease of this age?
Re: Apostate, Schism or Heretics?
Great points logos!
Nicholas wrote:On OCNET, it is being discussed that the Antiochian Orthodox Church's Patriarch and its American Metropolitan have made it Official Church Policy to commune AND concelebrate with Non-Chalcedonians.
Now if Non-Chalcedonians are monophysites and are under anathema, does this make the Antiochian Orthodox Church apostate, schismatic or heretical?
Oh. My. ... :shock: 
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