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So do you know where this link is that supposedly has our Patriarchs asking to meet with the pope? Since you are so eager to help and all, I just thought I would ask. :-)

It's quite clear that Colleen saw a website from a "Coptic Orthodox Church" which calls their leader a "Pope."

And like I said, I know the phrase "Pope of Rome" is not necessarily redundant.

Neither she nor I were aware that this "Coptic Orthodox" is not under your definition of "Orthodox." So, it was just a simple misunderstanding.

She did not mean to "slander" your Church. It was just not realized that this "Coptic Orthodox" was not actually "Orthodox."

No harm, no foul.

It seems that Colleen was originally upset by Marmema's statement:

In other words, we honor her for giving birth to Christ but we stop short of making her into a fourth member of the Holy Trinity.

There has been much discussion in the Catholic church and on this forum about declaring Mary as "Co-Redemptrix" with Jesus Christ.

While it may be clear to some Catholics what exactly that means, I think it's fair to say that other denominations would see that as declaring her a fourth member of the Holy Trinity (as if such a thing could be).

It would be nice if Colleen would be willing to accept the misunderstanding as "no harm, no foul" also.

I'm still trying to figure out how post 175, which started some of this, was anything but an out of the blue slap at Orthodox Christians for no reason I could see.