'Troubleshooting.' "How does an-ex Protestant choose between Orthodoxy and Catholicism?"

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Please consider subscribing to my substack:- https://drgavinashenden.substack.com/ 'Troubleshooting" offers a response to problems, quandaries, dilemmas & difficulties that subscribers send in. I enclose the text of 'Michael's email to give the context: "Dear Gavin Thank you for your response and your willingness to assist me. I have already decided that I cannot be a Protestant. It seems to me that the Magisterial Reformers radically deformed the Christian faith. However, I am conflicted as to whether the “one, holy, Catholic and apostolic church” is found in all its fullness in the Roman Catholic Church or the Eastern Orthodox Church. I have to say that I am drawn to the Eastern Orthodox Church for all kinds of reasons but not the least of which is its doctrinal minimalism (as Sergius Bulgakov describes it), by which I mean the fact that only the seven Ecumenical Councils are absolutely binding on the Eastern Orthodox faithful. The Roman Catholic Church, by way of contrast, has 21 Ecumenical Councils that are supposed to be absolutely binding on the faithful, although the CCC seems to have reinterpreted some of these doctrines, such as the inherited guilt that one finds in the Council of Trent. I suppose I wonder if the Roman Catholic Church has not overburdened the consciences of the faithful with too many de fide doctrines? Perhaps the doctrinal minimalism of the Eastern Orthodox Church is not preferable? Did we really need an infallible teaching about the Immaculate Conception? Or about Papal Infallibility (even John H Newman didn’t receive the doctrine with enthusiasm)? I suppose what I am trying to ask is simply: why Roman Catholicism over the Eastern Orthodox Church? It seems to me that there is great and holy minds on both sides of the question. How can I hope to decide between given my limitations? Assuming that Roman Catholicism really is the “one, holy, catholic and apostolic church”, how can one recognise it as such? Respond whenever you’re able to. Thanks

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