Toward a common Date of Easter!

Because the Eastern church won't kowtow to decisions of Catholic Popes.

From wikipedia: "While the Revised Julian calendar has been adopted by many of the smaller national churches, a majority of Orthodox Christians continue to adhere to the traditional Julian Calendar, and there has been much acrimony between the two parties over the decades since the change, leading sometimes even to violence, especially in Greece.

Critics see the change in calendar as an unwarranted innovation, influenced by Western society. They say that no sound theological reason has been given for changing the calendar, that the only reasons advanced are social.

The argument is also made that since the use of the Julian Calendar was implicit in the decision of the First Ecumenical Council at Nicea (325) which standardized the calculation of the date of Pascha (Easter), no authority less than an Ecumenical Council may change it. The adoption of a new calendar has broken the unity of the church, undoing the whole purpose of the council of Nicea, so once again, "on the same day some should be fasting whilst others are seated at a banquet."

And when a minor theological difference among the Orthodox leads to this (yes, that's the Jewish boys in blue trying to bring peace to the Christians) what on earth will happen if you tell the Catholics or the Orthodox to move their Easter?

The monk in red is definitely a "Christian soldier marching as to war".

advance Happy Easter To all!