Schismatics are neither dogs nor swine @JTLiuzza. As mattsixteen24 rightly points out relics are probably in safer hands right now. Before your reply I'd appreciate it if you answered a serious question and I pledge you to answer truthfully in the sight of The Almighty... which is a better home for the relics of the first Pope?
A.) In the hands of a Marxist pontiff who has already disgraced his office with false displays of "humility" before blaspheming pagans?
B.) In the hands of a Novus Ordo cardinal who fully supports the agenda of A.) and gladly administers The Blessed Sacrament to pro-abortion politicians and homosexuals
C.) in the hands of Catholics who, despite their Schism, still remain true to the essential teachings of our Holy Mother Church?

Honestly... the way people around here disrespect His Holiness Pope Francis, flatly deny the legitimacy of his Papacy, and sneer at the Novus Ordo in general, many here are theologically schismatics in all but outright declaration.

@Ultraviolet "in the hands of Catholics who, despite their Schism, still remain true to the essential teachings of our Holy Mother Church?"

That's a hoot. By "essential teachings" do you mean, I don't know, say Petrine primacy for starters? If they "remain true to the essential teachings of our Holy Mother Church," then why oh why are they in schism? Can't have it both ways.

Honestly you novus ordites are de facto protestants and you don't even know it. Mission accomplished modernists.

@JTLiuzza Your assumption that I'm a "novus ordite" is as flawed as your understanding of your Church's own catechetical teachings on eastern orthodoxy. It is you who can't have it both ways. Since the Church recognizes the validity of their sacraments, then clearly they remain true to the essential teachings of the Church.

Your outlook is, ironically enough, a very "modernist" one it itself. Not theologically, but culturally. Paradoxically, the more "devout" the contemporary Catholic, the more insular and uncharitable many of "us" (meaning you and others like you) become.

As much as you might pretend otherwise, the "novus ordites" are every bit as Catholic as you are. The Catholic Church is more than just "you and yours". Our Church and Her teachings recognize more of "them" are validly Catholic than your own particularly bigoted religious world-view might allow. .

It's true some Catholics stumble in following all of our Church's teachings. Yes, that includes the Novus Ordo and it includes the orthodox. And? What of it? That "us against them" attitude of yours isn't simply un-Catholic (in the literal sense of the word), it's both indefensible and un-Christian in every sense.

Catholics like you are not only an embarrassment to the rest of us traditionalists, you're an outright disgrace to Christians in general.

Seriously, as much as it shames and galls me to say this, I know Muslims who are better "Christians" than you.

I was trying to be charitable in assuming you're a novus ordite. At least they're not technnically schismatic like the orthodox, or heathens like your "christian" muslim friends. I was obviously wrong.

And here's a Christian tip for you. If you're going to hurl around slander, at least have the integrity and fortitude to do so without hiding behind a pseudonym.

@JTLiuzza Slander implies I've said something untrue. I have not. :D As for "hiding", When I'm done pushing you around online and making you look foolish in your own eyes, it is a comfort to know that, unlike you, the debate stays on the internet. It does not follow me to my job, it does not deface my home, it does not attack my banking or my mail.

One thing I learned every early on the internet is when people like you lose a debate, you always seek vengeance offline. Always.All your sanctimonious preaching and praying and religious-talk wears off like the plating on a cheap piece of constume jewelry. It's in your nature. Hatred is in your blood and it's directed at.the schismatics, the pagans, the novus ordo, everyone who isn't an echo-chamber or a clone of your thinking.

Schismatics the orthodox undoubtedly are, but they are still Catholics. They are also more "traditional" than what we see from the pro-abortion, pro-homosexual Novus Ordo bishops and cardinals who are in full communion with The Church. So why criticize the orthodox for being orthodox?

A week does not go by without you bitterly criticizing and complaining about a.) Pope Francis and his decisions, this one included b.) the clergy and THEIR decisions c.) the current state of the Vatican d.) the current state of The Church in general.

You are every bit as morally and, very likely theologically schismatic as the Eastern Orthodox. Only a few centuries ago your big mouth would get you arrested on one form of heresy or another, simply for denouncing the Pope and the Curia so rudely.

Then there are all the other "good loyal Catholics" here on the site who deny Francis is even the valid Pope.

Schismatic? Heretical? Obvious. Many traditional i.e. orthodox in the exact meaning of the word, Catholics are the same way. The artist who does the hysterically funny Francis-duckie cartoons would be sharing your prison cell.

The only difference between your heretical schismatic beliefs and the Eastern Orthodox is they were doing what you are over a thousand years ago and they simply stopped pretending.