For about a thousand years the Catholic and Eastern Orthodox churches were one communion, and they still share the same seven sacraments, bishops in apostolic succession and the first seven councils. They parted in a break usually dated to 1054, chiefly over two things: the authority of the Pope and the words “and the Son” in the Creed. Most of the other differences are smaller: purgatory, the Immaculate Conception, married priests, the bread used at Communion and the date of…

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