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The Church and Churches (George Mantzarides, Professor Emeritus of the Theological School of the Aristotle University of Thessaloniki)

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In his second discourse ‘On the Procession of the Holy Sprit’, Saint Gregory Palamas writes: ‘It was the common fate of all the Churches to fall away from the correct way of thinking, since over the centuries, wickedness polluted one or other of them. Not recovering after this fall, however, is true only in the case of the Church of the Latins, even though it is the greatest and chief and enjoys the most illustrious eminence among the patriarchal thrones. What happened to it, the greatest of the Churches, is similar to what happened to the elephant, the greatest of the animals. They say that it does not lie down on the ground at the hour of sleep, but relaxes by ...

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