The Crisis in Catholicism: Orthodox Perspectives on the Pope's Blessing of Same-Sex Couples

Archpriest Peter Heers, the host of The Orthodox Ethos, is joined by Joseph Sciambra, Craig Patrick Trulia and Mark Clark to discuss the recent developments within Catholicism from the Orthodox perspective. In particular:

1. To clearly state the matter at hand, bringing as much clarity as possible to what is at stake, including presenting the Gospel and Epistles and Fathers, examining the stance vis-a-vis this missing of the mark (sin).

2. Share several clips from apologists for the new stance, who promote obedience to the Pope, analyzing this with references to Holy Scripture and the Church Fathers.

3. Examine authoritative voices, such as Catherine of Sienna, on the need for total blind obedience to Papal decrees.

4. Examine if this latest decree is related to the millennium-old stance of the papacy vis-a-vis church authority, holy tradition, conciliarity and the patristic heritage and consensus.

5. Answer questions from listeners.

Joseph Sciambra has written extensively concerning the real-life issues of pornography, homosexuality, and the occult. His articles have been published by LifeSiteNews, The Stream, and First Things. Taylor Marshall, Church Militant, and Howard Stern have interviewed Joseph. He received his BA from the University of California at Berkeley in Art History and his MA from Sonoma State University.

Patrick Craig Truglia is an active layman whose education was in history and education, earning an MA at Columbia University and BA at SUNY Geneseo (NY) where he became a member of Phi Beta Kappa. He conducts historical research, produces apologetics, and performs missionary work in Cambodia. His main areas of expertise are particularly in the history of Marian dogma and the ecclesiology of the pre-schism Church. Truglia is academically published in the subjects of historical philosophy and theology including "Original Sin in The Byzantine Dormition Narratives" Revista Teologica, Issue 4 (2021): 5-30 and "Al-Ghazali and Giovanni Pico Della Mirandola On the Question of Human Freedom and the Chain of Being" Philosophy East and West, Issue 60:2 (2010): 143-166. He is also published popularly by Uncut Mountain Press with his book The Rise and Fall of the Papacy and with the blessing of the dean of the chancery of Southeast Asia for the Moscow Patriarchate wrote the introduction to a Khmer and Thai translation of Saint Maximus' Life of the Virgin.

Mark Clark: Mark Clark has worked as an editor with specific experience related to orthodox catholic diologue and the theological divide between East and west.