Divorce & Remarriage in the Church Fathers | Erick Ybarra & Called to Communion Rebutted

Catholic apologists have repeatedly made the accusation that the Orthodox Church, despite its staunch conservatism in regard to liturgy, fasting, and social issues, has caved on the topic of remarriage after divorce. They argue that the Church Fathers have always, or at least almost always taught that remarriage after a divorce, even in a narrow range of cases, is forbidden so long as the first spouse is living. Those Catholic apologists come armed with quote mines meant to defend that view and such quote mines are ubiquitous on the internet. Yet, these collections typically contain the same core quotations with little meaningful analysis.

In this video, we will respond to two of these quote mines. The first is by Erick Ybarra and can be found on his blog. The second, which is more comprehensive than Mr. Ybarra's, is from the blog "Called to Communion," a website founded by Brian Cross (both quote mines are linked below in the form we found them while making this video). We will not necessarily be following the order that either of these blog posts use in presenting the quotations, but, throughout our video, we will dispute their interpretations of specific passages they quote in their collections.

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The two quote mines we are responding to appear, in their current form here
(1) https://web.archive.org/web/20220116013233/https://erickybarra.org/2019/08/04/divorce-remarriage-in-the-church-fathers/
(2) https://web.archive.org/web/20220111083719/https://www.calledtocommunion.com/2011/09/what-therefore-god-has-joined-together-divorce-and-the-sacrament-of-marriage/