Should Catholics disillusioned with Pope Francis leave for the Orthodox Church?
Prompted by a question about the 1054 split, a viewer's concern leads Robert to address Catholics leaving for Orthodoxy out of disgust with Pope Francis.
Answer
That is important today, because a lot of people are so disgusted with Pope Francis that they are making the exit to the Orthodox church, and I can see why, but that is not the way to go. If there is trouble in the church, and there is, we need to stay in the church and fight within it, not go outside of it. This has been true ever since the church started; people come in and cause others to fall into heresy and schism, and the first tendency of the mind is to get comfortable, to go somewhere without these problems, and that is your first mistake. You cannot separate the organization from the doctrine any more than you can efface the front of a quarter, keep the back, and think you have a real quarter; they are both connected, and that is what makes the Catholic Church distinctive. The organization persists, and you have to stay in it and fight within it. This is not about making you comfortable; it is about keeping the church on the straight and narrow with the help of Jesus Christ. And if it hurts, it hurts; we are only in this world for a short time, so however much it hurts, sustain it and suffer with it, because it is all going to be gone soon and then we live forever in eternity.