My remark beggining "I am not convinced of that" referred to your "The differences that the Church has with Russia are founded on dogma", and not to your entire #10, which I enjoyed reading, but find myself incapable of further comment.
>>My remark [beginning] "I am not convinced of that" referred to your "The differences that the Church has with Russia are founded on dogma", and not to your entire #10<<
If Keating is saying that, I have to assure you that the Orthodox he has met must be altogether different from all the Orthodox I have heard explain themselves on such things as the filioque, the Immaculate Conception and Papal infallibility. Regarding the filioque, for example, I have never found an Orthodox Christian who believes that the Holy Ghost proceeds from the Son as well as from the Father. When I question them regarding the words of Jesus in Scripture about this they cannot respond intelligently, however, and jump topic like Protestants do when they are faced with dogmatic questions they cannot answer without admitting they had been in error. I would have to conclude that Keating must desire "unity" with the Orthodox so much that he's willing to muddy up his own thinking on the processions of the Blessed Trinity; assuming, of course, that he ever understood the Church's teaching on that dogma in the first place! Perhaps it comes from his association with the "charismatics" at Steubenville. (Too much rolling around on the floor grunting like beasts?)