In the 11th century, the Catholic forebears of Father Bassam Saade and the Orthodox predecessors of Father Joshua had a falling out so seismic it became known as “the great schism.”
Excommunications and strongly worded parchments flew back and forth. The dust of an Orthodox church was symbolically shaken off a papal representative’s feet. The resulting divide between the two churches has persisted for the better part of a millennium. MORE