“It’s the way of life, a culture.”
Alex, you of all people know Kosta is right! There is no need for the Latins to use the iconostasion, have beared priests or use prosphoron. The old High Mass was just fine. but Wiccan nuns and the NO liturgy just isn’t fine and we have no time or tolerance for them. They are not and cannot and never can be “Orthodox” or “orthodox” no matter what the theologians and hierarchs, yours and ours, say. We will indeed simply walk away from them. Love, Alex, is not the issue. As Kosta says, its Orthodoxy.
But then your answer to the hypothetical
— the West returns to the dogmatic perimeter of 8c.
— the West returns to authentically Latin form of worship
would not have been the one you already gave in 29, would it?