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>Are you American?
No, I'm Australian. Our Catholic Cardinal has basically been confirmed to have been molesting children and covering it up. I think that most Catholics here are sincere but I don't think I can put myself under the authority of men like that.

>There's nothing about Orthodoxy that pulls me to convert, no offense. The spirituality, the saints, and the Marian doctrines and apparitions make me stay like a rock.
None taken. I think the opposite in many ways. The spirituality of monastic life, even out here in Australia, is unlike anything I've seen in any other Christian denomination, here at least. The early saints we venerate are mostly the same, the saint I intend to take as my patron, St. Guthlec of Crowland, is usually considered a Catholic or Anglican Saint, but he is ours as well. As for the Marian doctrines, they are a matter of theological opinion in Orthodoxy, you can certainly have particular devotion to the Theotokos, but they're not dogmatised either. As for the Apparitions, I've not researched enough, I'm not completely sold that they are real but I'm not going to claim they are faked either. I'll have to do more research honestly.

What do you think of Byzantine Rite Catholics? they differ from us only in that they accept the office of the Pope as you accept it. But they also canonized St Gregory Palamas, so I'm not sure where most Catholics stand on them.